Name: Navarasa : Nine Emotions
Brand: Yorkston / Thorne / Khan

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WIGLP439

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Black

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Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with 4 Page LP Sized Booklet. 

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-01-24

Signed copies

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PIAS

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Standard:20

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887828043910

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

WIGCD439

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With 12 Page Booklet.

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887828043927

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Yorkston / Thorne / Khan

Genre GB

Rest of World

Label GB

Domino

Domino is an independent label founded in Putney, South West London by *a694357* and his partner Jacqui Rice in 1993. The label initially focused on American acts such as *Sebadoh*, *Pavement* or *Royal Trux* before signing British acts in the late '90s.

The label operates a US division, located in Brooklyn, which output was initially identified by its own catalogue number schemes, DOMUS then DNO (used until 2013), when the releases handled by the UK headquarters are identified by WIG (albums) and RUG (singles and EPs) catalogue numbers.

The company operating the label, *Warp Records*, diversified, establishing a publishing arm and a series of labels (*Double Six Recordings*, *Weird World Record Co.*, *Rephlex*, ...).

Yorkston/Thorne/Khan are an experimental group that includes [a=James Yorkston], one of the most “influential singer/songwriters on the Scottish folk scene”, [a=Suhail Yusuf Khan], award winning sarangi player and classical singer from New Delhi, and [a=Jon Thorne], best known as jazz double bass player with electro outfit [a=Lamb]. 

Yorkston / Thorne / Khan release their new album Navarasa : Nine Emotions - the trio’s third record. Navarasa : Nine Emotions takes their journey many, many leagues on. At the heart of YTK’s transporting new album is the subcontinent’s navarasa; the nine (nava) emotions or sentiments (rasa) of the arts. This central unifying underpinning is a centuries-old organising principle. The individual artistic emotions range from Shringara (love, beauty) through Hasya (laughter, mirth, comedy), Raudra (anger), Karuna (sorrow, compassion or mercy), Bibhatsya (disgust), Bhayanaka (horror, terror), Veera (heroism, courage), Adbutha (surprise, wonder) to Shanta (peace, tranquillity).

Westlin’ Winds starts with the life-destroying Act I of Robert Burns’ poem Now Westlin Winds, (And Slaught’ring Guns) and deliciously transplants its disjoined, nature-extolling and life-affirming Act II onto Indian soil with a composition "in Purbi, a specific dialect of old Hindi. I learnt the song,” says Suhail, “by listening to various qawwali [Muslim devotional song] singers singing at Hazrat Nizammuddin’s dargah [shrine] in Delhi. Its source is Hazrat Amir Khusrau.” Thus YTK unite one of the key spiritual visionaries and architects of Hindustani art music, the poet-philosopher Hazrat Amir Khusrau with the key literary visionary of Scottish and Scots-language culture, Robert Burns. This bricolage of diverse cross-cultural elements is apparent across Navarasa : Nine Emotions and all of what YTK create. James Yorkston weaves in Scottish folk, sangster and literary strands. Jon Thorne is grounded in jazz and groove. What the New Delhi-based, eighth-generation hereditary musician Suhail Yusuf Khan brings to this feast of pulses and cycles is northern Indian classical, light classical (thumri, for example) and Sufi devotional musical and literary forms. What binds these diverse musical strands together is, in James’ phrase, “a dark happiness”.

Navarasa : Nine Emotions

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