Sonny Singh ya gabatar da rubutu na biyu, Sage Warrior dangane da farko singa, Pavan Guru.

Sage Warrior yi wani zane-crossing, hadin gwiwa, twa'a-gwiwa odyssey a cikin al'adu al'adu daga critically acknowledged singer, trumpeter, da songwriter Sonny Singh. The album bincika Sikh na al'adu sant sipahi, mai ban sha'awa: mai ban sha'awa yana da sha'awar; mai ban sha'awa yana da sha'awar da sha'awar. Introspective da m, na jima'i da kuma mai ban sha'awar, album yana samar da mai ban sha'awa na Sikh mai ban sha'awa daga Tsakiya, canalizing na'ura mai ban sha'awar don lokaci mu. Singh ya samar da album a matsayin mai sha'awar da sabon bukatun Sage Warrior <pfseg id="0">ya'irar tsibirin hakkin mallaka da mai sayar da makaranta Valarie Kaur. Kowane tsari a kan album yana da rubutu a cikin bukatun. Tare da rubutu, Sage Warrior bukatun da album suna samar da wani ƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙir

Brooklyn-based Sonny Singh ne mai ban sha'awa ga ƙarfi da kuma m musicals. A karshe biyu shekaru, Singh ya zama mai ban sha'awa a matsayin wani asali ma'aikata na band Red Baraat, yi a duniya tare da matasa tare da matasa da mata. Ya tafi a kan wani solo kariya don bincike ƙarfi sabon renderings na Sikh m music. A 2022, ya ba da al'amurransa. Chardi Kala ka critical albarkatun: "Singh ya yi wannan rare daga cikin rare abubuwa a matsayin musici - shi ya rike sabon yanki ..." (Bhanuj Kappal, Live Mint). Albumsa ya riga wani sabon yanki a cikin yanki na jima'i music: "This is Indian devotional music as Western pop with a trumpet as a driving force. To hear it is to realize there is not much else like it anywhere" (Bruce Miller, PopMatters).

Now with his second album, Singh ushers us into altogether new experiences of the sacred through music, poetry, and song. The album was produced by Grammy-nominated Kaveh Rastegar, who has worked with Sting, John Legend, Ringo Starr, and De La Soul. Sage Warrior features a virtuosic roster of musicians on guitars, Punjabi and western drums, horns, harmonium, and synths. The result: a rich sonic journey into the world of Sikh music and beyond. At moments, traditional Punjabi rhythms transport us to the riverbanks of Punjab, where Sikh ancestors sang the sacred poems. In the next moment, we are ushered into bold new experiments in global music through soaring trumpets and epic electric guitar-driven melodies. In every track, Sonny’s powerful voice is our guide, as in the words of Annie Mok of Bandcamp Daily: “Singh’s voice arrives, like the breaking of morning sunlight, a bursting open of joy.”

The Sage Warrior album is genre-crossing, borderless, devotional, and new –

• In Sachau Orai, Sonny’s music pulsates with reggae and dub, a nod to the spiritual roots of reggae music, connecting Sikh wisdom with a vibrant global call to action: “Higher than truth is the living of truth.”
• In Jaano Jot, Sonny offers an anthemic declaration to dismantle caste and all forms of oppression, with a catchy Punjabi-cumbia groove: “Know the light within all, ask not of caste / there are no hierarchies in the world beyond.”
• In Taati Vao, a sacred poem for protection, Sonny’s powerful voice and layered electric guitars shelter the listener with epic melodies: “Hot winds cannot touch me, I am shielded by the Infinite.”
• In Begampura, the sage-poet Ravidas dreams of “a place without despair.” Through dreamy, lush, layered vocal harmonies, Sonny invites us to imagine a world without cruelty or agony, and to feel the possibility of liberation in our bodies.

In making the album, Singh worked closely with Valarie Kaur as she wrote the book Sage Warrior. Singh composed new renditions of the sacred poems, shabds, that appear in each story. Singh sent her music demos as she wrote; she sent him chapters as he composed. The book inspired the album; the album inspired the book; both were inspired by Sikh wisdom. Fittingly, the penultimate track of the album features Kaur reading an excerpt of the book to an introspective improvisational soundscape in a piece called Rebirth.

"Sonny's music ya sa jima'i na dabbobi warrior - wani full-throated sha'awar na Oneness, da kuma yaushe sha'awar da aiki," ya ce Valarie Kaur. "A shi ne mai ban sha'awar artist, activist, da kuma kwarewa wanda ke sha'awar da jima'i da na jima'i. Yana da wani matsa lissafi na duba da musici a lokacin da na rubuta, da kuma domin ta jima'i, a gaban da musici. Book da album da aka kafa tare da."

Singh ya ce, "Kama Valarie ya ba da tafiya na farko na kowane chapter na bukatun, music ya zo daga gare ni tare da sauƙi. Ya rubuta da tarihin mu jama'a da matsaloli a cikin al'amurran cewa na bukatar duba - cewa mu tunanin bukatar duba. Ina so mu music taimaka wa zamani al'amurran Valarie rarraba a cikin bukatun yanar gizo a cikin dukan mata."

Wannan gudu, a gundumar da abin da ya halitta zai zama mu mafi daidaici da kuma daidaitacce kudi a ko'ina, Sage Warrior Littafi da album za su ƙirƙirar wani lalata zuwa karfafawa, sadarwa, da kuma halitta. Tare da watan Satumba 2024, Singh za su gabatar da Kaur a cikin Revolutionary Love Tour don ƙirƙirar hadarinsa da kuma music zuwa mataimakin duniya. Album, Book, da kuma visual art (da Sikh artist Keerat Kaur) ƙirƙirar, da Sage Warrior project is a multisensory, audio-visual experience, a new offering of Sikh wisdom, a doorway into the revolutionary love movement, and medicine for everyone hungry for hope, healing, liberation, and joy.

Pavan Guru is the first single from Brooklyn-based singer and trumpet player Sonny Singh’s forthcoming sophomore album. With this new music comes a deepening of Sonny’s borderless exploration of ancient Sikh wisdom that was the heart of his debut album Chardi Kala in 2022, which JazzTimes called “vibrant, ebullient, and energized.”

Pavan Guru is Sonny’s original rendition of a widely recited poem about the mystical Oneness found in nature, written by Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh faith (full translation below). Produced by Grammy-nominated bass player and musician Kaveh Rastegar, Pavan Guru begins with layered electric guitar soundscapes and Sonny’s voice soaring, inviting listeners into a space of reflection, before galloping Punjabi rhythms on the dholki and tabla and meditative trumpet melodies lead the way.  

“I have been reciting and singing the words in this shabad [devotional song] my whole life,” Sonny explains. “It is humbling to bring my own musical voice and sensibility to these verses that are so special for millions of Sikhs around the world – and to be able to share them with new audiences outside our community.”

Sonny Singh’s new album, called Sage Warrior, is set to release on September 6th, alongside a book by the same name by his longtime friend and Sikh activist and writer Valarie Kaur (One World, 9/10/24).

English Translation by Valarie Kaur, with Dolly Kaur Brar, Nirinjan Kaur Khalsa, and Jasvir Kaur Rababan

Air our teacher, water our father
Mother Earth, the great womb
Dana da kuma rana ne ma'aikata da kuma ma'aikata
The dukan duniya ya yi a cikin kammala

Aki mu yi, mai kyau da kuma ƙaunar,
yi ya karanta a cikin gida
Dangane da ayyukanmu da kuma kawai mu, mu zo kusa ko duba farko

Wai waɗanda suka gane magana
da suka yi aiki tare da sha'awar
Oh Nanak, da hanyoyin su ne m
and many more are freed with them

About 'The Sage Warrior' Book By Valarie Kaur:

“Sage Warrior is far more than a book – it’s a sacred invitation." - Brené Brown, Ph.D., Author of the #1 NYT Bestseller Atlas of the Heart

A cikin bukatun, Sage Warrior, a kan Satumba 10th, 2024 (One World), Kaur ya gabatar da wani kwarewa na 250 shekaru na epic tarihin na farko Sikhs. A lokacin da aka rigawa da caste, dubawa, da kammala, na farko Sikhs fitar da wani sabon lalata na sant sipahi, the sage warrior—a figure who embodies both the sage, full of love and awe for the world as it is, and the warrior, who fights for the world as it ought to be. Each chapter focuses on a single Sikh Guru, or spiritual leader, and woman ancestor, and corresponding lesson. In the album, Singh brings each sacred poem to life. In Sikh tradition, music is the primary vehicle for wisdom: through musical poetry, wisdom lands in the body, mind, and heart.

Hailed as “a brilliant gem” by Michelle Alexander, author of the New Jim Crow, Sage Warrior offers us a new way to think about how we cultivate a discipline of courage, pleasure, and connection in seemingly catastrophic times, inspired by a rich and surprising wisdom tradition that many have very likely never explored.