We recently shared the news that Yorkston/Thorne/Khan are to release their third album “Navarasa : Nine Emotions ” on January 24th, 2020, via Domino Records. Accompanying that news was lead track ‘Now Westlin’ Winds’, a popular Robert Burns poem, most famously covered by the likes of Dick Gaughan.
Today they have shared another great song in the form of “The Shearing’s Not For You”, a traditional song James first heard sang by Aberdeenshire Traveller Jeannie Robertson. The song tells a story about a soon-to-be-mother, being abandoned by the itinerant father of their soon-to-be-born child. Many Hindustani musicians instinctively shy away from Bibhatsya because they choose not to soil their art with disgust, but here it clearly informs the story within “The Shearing’s not for You”. Read more about the themes of music and poetry, pulses and cycles behind the album here.
Needless to say, they do a beautiful job in giving it that very special Yorkston/Thorne/Khan treatment (I’ve yet to anything less than brilliant from this trio) which is why we’ve chosen it as our Song of the Day.
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan will play a special album launch show at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections before their own UK headline tour in March.
Navarasa : Nine Emotions is out 24 January 2020 and will be available to pre-order on Dom Mart-exclusive deluxe double vinyl (coloured vinyl with three exclusive songs + patch), double vinyl (with the three exclusive tracks), CD and digitally. Pre-order: Dom Mart | Digital
Upcoming Yorkston/Thorne/Khan Scottish live dates
22nd January – Celtic Connections @ Drygate Brewery, Glasgow – Album Launch
21st March – CatStrand, New Galloway
22nd March – Summerhall, Edinburgh
23rd March – Perth Theatre, Perth
24th March – Eden Court, Inverness
25th March – The Old Bridge Inn, Aviemore
26th March – The Barn, Banchory
27th March – Tolbooth, Stirling
28th March – Eastgate Theatre, Peebles
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Photo Credit: Jon Pountney