Aisee Preet was included in John Schaefer’s Weekly Music Roundup on WNYC. Excerpt below and full piece here.
We first met Sonny Singh as the trumpeter and vocalist of Brooklyn’s Punjabi dance band Red Baraat; now he’s preparing to release a solo album called Chardi Kala, which combines his own pulsating brass- and percussion-driven music with Sikh texts that go back centuries. “Aisee Preet” is a 16th century devotional poem given a treatment that is totally contemporary, even as it dances along on traditional Punjabi rhythms and drums. The video was shot in Richmond Hill, Queens, mostly at the temple that is now the center of New York’s Punjabi Sikh community – although when I was growing up, just one avenue away, there wasn’t anything nearly as cool in the neighborhood.