Debut album on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East encompasses myriad facets of Jain’s identity both as a first-generation South Asian–American and as a global musician.

“Sunny Jain, the drummer who leads the Red Baraat brass band, vastly expands his palette on ‘Wild Wild East,’ a furiously propulsive song. Bollywood meets New Orleans, new age, rock and whatever else it takes to make this five-minute track hurtle forward with a new fusion at every junction.” - The New York Times

“Many of these composition are intellectually thrilling to unravel. In Wild Wild East, shimmering walls of sound feel like floating face-down in a pool and watching light patterns dance on the floor.” - Pitchfork

“Sunny Jain paints a rich canvas...whether mingling rhythms from Pakistan film soundtracks with spaghetti western motifs (‘Immigrant Warrior’) or spicing ragas with twisting, turning time signatures (‘Osian’; ‘Baaghi’) the energetic, groove-riding results prove utterly compelling throughout.” - MOJO (UK)