Yorkston ♥ Thorne ♥ Khan
Since 2016 James Yorkston (one of the most “influential singer/songwriters on the Scottish folk scene”), Jon Thorne, best known as jazz double bass player with electro outfit Lamb, and Suhail Yusuf Khan have been exploring the crossover worlds of Indian Classical, Jazz and Folk music. They have released three albums worldwide on Domino Records and toured Europe and India, with Rolling Stone calling their 2017 Neuk Wight Delhi All-Starsa “game-changing masterpiece”. Their 2020 album Navarasa : NineEmotions was The Guardian newspaper’s “Folk Album of the Year“.
5/5 Record Collector ‘New Album of the Month’ “Throughout, this is the sound of three world class talents raising their respective games, as if trying to keep up with each other, creating something far greater even that the sum of their world-class parts.”
5/5 fRoots “Joyous, contemplative, playful, euphoric and bleakly beautiful. Brimming with confidence, ideas and musicianship, these Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars are a band of brothers
8/10 UNCUT “It isn’t easy to pigeon-hole but it could just be one of the albums of the year”
5/5 Rolling Stone “A game-changing masterpiece”
Songlines – “The fluidity of their interplay has now become almost second nature”
4/5 MOJO “The sound they conjure up is Heavenly”
Harmonium / double bass / tanpura / nyckelharpa / guitar / vocals.
For booking, please contact Terry O’Brien – Terry at playpenmusic dot co dot uk