★★★★★
Red Baraat is a Brooklyn-based musical collective that fuses the dhol-based bhangra music of India and Pakistan with a horn-heavy funk that recollects swampy southern-US murk. Ringleader Sunny Jain provides both vocals and beats on the dhol, a cylindrical, two headed drum that is vigorously whalloped at both ends (with either drumsticks or bare hands) to provide a staccato, propulsive rhythm that is unmistakable...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-03-26
★★★★★
Sinj In the age of Beats By Dre headphones, the ears of the general public are accustomed to receiving their low-end grooves in the form of synths and drum machines pumped through unnecessarily bass-heavy speakers. Given that, it's especially refreshing to find deep and substantial bottom coming instead from a combination of brass/woodwinds and traditional Indian percussion...
- www.relix.com
2013-02-20
★★★★★
From Brooklyn, New York, comes one of the most entertaining and original Asian fusion sets of the summer. Led by percussionist Sunny Jain, an exponent of the double-sided dhol drum from northern India, Red Baraat specialise in reviving and updating the music played at Indian wedding processions, along with bhangra and a hefty dash of funk and jazz. The lineup is intriguing, with three percussionists matched against six brass players...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-08-30
★★★★★
A combination of bhangra and marching band--"dhol 'n' brass" is its phrase--Red Baraat is based in the United States...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: Punjabi Wedding Song (Balle Balle); Tunak Tunak Tun; Chaal Baby; MehndiLaga Ke Rakhna; Drum 'n' Brass; Arcana; Hey Jamalo; Dum Maro Dum; BaraatTo Nowhere; Aaj Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai; Samaro Mantra. Personnel: Sunny Jain: dhol,drumset, percussion; Rohin Kheman: tavil, doumbek;Tomas Fujiwara: drumset; Arun Luthra: soprano sax; Mike Bomwell:baritone sax; Sonny Singh: trumpet; MiWi La Lupa: bass trumpet; DaveSmith: trombone; John Altieri: sousaphone...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
A side project of jazz/world-music drummer Sunny Jain, Red Baraat is a fun, infectious Brooklyn-based band that deftly blends North Indian bhangra rhythms, rowdy brass-band energy, konokol singing and even rap...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-07-17