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Jokes and intriguing sonic mashups occur from the teaming of Scots folk musician James Yorkston, Lamb bassist Jon Thorne and Indian sarangist Suhail Yusuf KhanSleepy seaside Fife and subtropical Delhi have more in common than you’d imagine. James Yorkston tells of hosting Suhail Yusuf Khan at his house in Anstruther ahead of this Celtic Connections festival date, or while washing the dishes,absent-mindedly scalding his hand and cursing in the local parlance: Ooh, ya bandit!” His Indian guest for some reason looked out of the window. “Apparently that means ‘Theres a monkey’ where hes from, or ” Yorkston explains.
After assembly by chance at a festival in Edinburgh in 2013 and collaborating live without so much as a rehearsal,Scots folk singer and guitarist Yorkston and award-winning sarangi player and classical singer Khan have formalised their partnership as a trio together with jazz double-bassist and Lamb member Jon Thorne. This month they release an album, Everything Sacred.
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Source: theguardian.com