Junun Featuring Shye Ben Tzur and The Rajasthan Express




Soundcheck show

Summary: <p><em>Junun</em> is a musical collaboration between India-based Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur, a group of Indian musicians called The Rajasthan Express, and composer (and Radiohead’s guitarist) Jonny Greenwood. The music is in the ecstatic Sufi music style known as <em>qawwali</em> (made famous by the late <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njitYt646ZE&amp;list=PLCECrtsNyGVqgH9yVtXUKJbtKRkFylX2z">Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan</a>), and it's devotional music—sometimes in Urdu, Hebrew, and Hindi, and is built on a percussion-dense and brass enriched groove with everything to love. The band has been opening for Radiohead on their current tour, but they join us to perform some of these ecstatic tunes in-studio. <em>-Caryn Havlik</em></p> <p>Watch the full session here: </p> <p>Watch the individual songs below:</p>