Thursday, September 26, 2019

That's Hu: Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and the Rajasthan Express with "Hu"



Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood performs with Shye Ben Tzur and The Rajasthan Express on today's random song. Long an admirer of composer Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood contacted him with a proposal to collaborate on an album of music from Rajasthan. They both agreed that they would only use native string instruments and hire only musicians from the region. They assembled a group they called The Rajasthan Express, comprising musicians from three traditions: Qawwali, Sufi and Muslim Roma (providing brass). The music was written by Shye Ben Tzur, and Greenwood contributed guitar, bass and keyboards, ondes Martenot and programming. A documentary of the making of the album, from which this video is an outtake, was filmed and recorded by Oscar nominee Paul Thomas Anderson. The song you will experience is Hu, taken from disc 1 of the 2015 album Junun by Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood and The Rajasthan Express. The documentary has the same name, Junun.

Listen to songs like this and more on the KUNM Global Music Show every Monday night from 10 pm - 1 am Mountain Standard Time. Live streaming, program information and the two-week digital archive can be found at http://www.kunm.org.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junun_(album)

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