Brooklyn-Based Singer and Trumpet Player Sonny Singh Announces Sophomore Album 'Sage Warrior'

Sonny Singh announces his sophomore record, Sage Warrior Pẹlu awọn ti o dara julọ akọkọ, Pavan Guru.

Sage Warrior ni a gẹgẹbi gẹgẹbi gẹgẹbi gẹgẹbi gẹgẹbi gẹgẹbi gẹgẹbi gẹgẹbi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gẹgẹ bi gige. sant sipahi, the sage warrior: the sage leads with love; the warrior answers the call to courage. Introspective and urgent, spiritual and rebellious, the album offers bold new renditions of Sikh devotional poems from South Asia, channeling ancestral wisdom for our time. Singh created the album as a companion to the new book Sage Warrior by visionary civil rights leader and bestseller author Valarie Kaur. Gbogbo awọn ọna lori awọn album ni ifowosowopo kan titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun titun tit

Brooklyn-ede Sonny Singh ti wa ni gbajumo fun awọn ti o dara julọ ati awọn ti o dara julọ musicals. Ninu awọn ọdun meji, Singh ti wa ni gbajumo bi a akọkọ ẹgbẹ ti awọn band Red Baraat, ṣiṣe lori awọn igba ni agbaye pẹlu awọn oniwe-iwe ati awọn ọrọ rẹ. O si bẹrẹ si a solo kariere lati iwadi awọn ti o dara julọ ti Sikh devotional music. Ni 2022, o fi awọn oniwe-iwe-iwe rẹ Chardi Kala to critical acclaim: “Singh has done that rarest of rare things as a musician—he has actually charted new ground…” (Bhanuj Kappal, Live Mint). His album carved out a new space in the landscape of spiritual music: “This is Indian devotional music as Western pop with a trumpet as a driving force. To hear it is to realize there’s not much else like it anywhere” (Bruce Miller, PopMatters).

Bẹni pẹlu albumu akọkọ rẹ, Singh gbọdọ wa siwaju sii titun ọna ti awọn ti o dara julọ nipasẹ music, poetry, ati song. Awọn album ti a ṣe nipasẹ awọn Grammy-nọmba Kaveh Rastegar, ti o ti ṣiṣẹ pẹlu Sting, John Legend, Ringo Starr, ati De La Soul. Sage Warrior ni o ni a virtuosic àkọsílẹ ti awọn musicists lori guitars, Punjabi ati western buburu, horns, harmonium, ati synths. Awọn apẹẹrẹ: a ọpọlọpọ akọsilẹ akọsilẹ akọsilẹ lọ si aye ti Sikh music ati siwaju sii. Ni akoko kan, awọn akọsilẹ Punjabi awọn akọsilẹ ti wa ni ifowosow

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

• In Sachau Orai, Sonny's music pulses pẹlu reggae ati dub, a nso si awọn ẹya ara ẹni ti reggae music, ṣeto Sikh ilera pẹlu a gbajumo agbaye gbigbe lati iṣẹ: “Higher than truth is the living of truth.”
• In Jaano Jot, Sonny nfun a ifowosowopo lati gbigbe awọn caste ati gbogbo awọn iṣeduro, pẹlu a gbọdọ Punjabi-cumbia groove: "Kọju awọn ọna ninu gbogbo, ko fẹ lati caste / nibẹ ni ko si iṣeduro ni agbaye diẹ sii."
• 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 tẹsiwaju awọn ọna ti awọn ọkunrin ọkunrin – a pọju-ọna apamọwọ ti Oneness, ati ki o gbọdọ gbọdọ si iṣowo,” o npe ni Valarie Kaur. “O jẹ ọkunrin, aktivist, ati olokiki ti o ṣeto awọn ọna-ọna-ọna-ọna-ọna-ọna-ọna-ọna-ọna.”

Singh sọrọ, "Kati Valarie yoo fi mi awọn akọkọ ti kọọkan akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ, awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ."

This autumn, amid what promises to be our most contentious and destabilizing electoral season yet, the Sage Warrior book and album will forge a path toward courage, connection, and love. Starting in September 2024, Singh will join Kaur on a Revolutionary Love Tour to bring their stories and music to audiences across the country. Album, book, and visual art (by Sikh artist Keerat Kaur) woven together, the Sage Warrior Project ni a multisensory, audio-visual iṣẹ, a titun ifiranṣẹ ti Sikh ilera, a ibi si awọn iṣowo iyanu, ati ọgbin fun gbogbo eniyan ti o gbọdọ fun awọn iyanu, itọju, gbọdọ, ati iyanu.

Pavan Guru ti wa ni akọkọ singer lati Brooklyn-based singer ati trumpet player Sonny Singh's tẹsiwaju sophomore album. Pẹlu yi titun music wa ni a gbajumo ti Sonny's ti awọn agbaye iwadi ti awọn akọkọ Sikh ilera eyi ti o jẹ ibi ti rẹ debut album Chardi Kala ni 2022, eyi ti JazzTimes ti a npe ni “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 titun album, titun Sage Warrior, ti a ti fi sọrọ lati fi sori ẹrọ on September 6th, lẹkansi a akọkọ akọkọ akọkọ akọkọ nipasẹ rẹ akọkọ ẹgbẹ ati Sikh aktivist ati aworan 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
Ojo ati omi ni o wa ni awọn ọkunrin ati awọn ọmọde
Ati awọn agbaye ni awọn oniwe-ọna

Ni ohun ti a ṣe, ti o dara ati iyanu,
ti wa ni wiwa ni ile-iwe
Nipa awọn oniwe-ọna wa ati nikan wa, a tẹsiwaju ki o si tẹsiwaju tabi tẹsiwaju nigbagbogbo

Ati awọn ti o ba fẹ awọn orukọ mistiki
and have labored faithfully
Oh Nanak, awọn oniwe-ọna ti wa ni irọrun
ati ọpọlọpọ awọn miiran ti wa ni gbọdọ pẹlu wọn

Ati awọn 'The Sage Warrior' Book Nipa Valarie Kaur:

“Sage Warrior is far more than a book – it’s a sacred invitation.” — Brené Brown, Ph.D., olumulo ti awọn #1 NYT Bestseller Atlas of the Heart

Ninu awọn akọkọ, Sage Warrior, out on September 10, 2024 (One World), Kaur presents an imaginative retelling of 250 years of epic history of the first Sikhs. In a time riven by caste, conquest, and cruelty, the first Sikhs forged new path of the 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.

Tọkasi bi “a brilliant gem” nipa Michelle Alexander, olori ti awọn New Jim Crow, Sage Warrior awọn nfun wa kan titun ọna lati fi sọrọ nipa bi a ṣiṣeto kan ilera ti iyanu, iyanu, ati ifowosowopo ni igba ti o wa ni iyanu iyanu, daju nipasẹ a orisirisi ati iyanu ilera traditi ti ọpọlọpọ awọn ti o wa julọ ko ti ko ni igbadun.