Jonny Greenwood on Why His New Album With Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express Took a Decade to Make and ‘Hoping to Do Another’ Radiohead Tour

By Naman Ramachandran

Naman Ramachandran

Latest

• Jonny Greenwood on Why His New Album With Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express Took a Decade to Make and ‘Hoping to Do Another’ Radiohead Tour 49 minutes ago
• Korea Box Office: ‘Toy Story 5’ Secures Top Spot to End ‘Colony’ Reign 6 hours ago
• U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer Resigns 6 hours ago

It took Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood more than a decade to follow acclaimed 2015 album “Junun.” A musician died. A pandemic intervened. And then there were the visas.

“Ranjha,” released last month via World Circuit/BMG, reunites Greenwood with Israeli musician Shye Ben Tzur — who divides his time between Israel and India — and their ensemble The Rajasthan Express for a follow-up to their debut. In the intervening years Greenwood has composed film scores, recorded “Jarak Qaribak” with Israeli rock musician Dudu Tassa, and played in The Smile with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke – but this is the project he kept coming back to.

Related Stories

U.S.-Based Icelandic Producer Sigurjón Sighvatsson to Be Honored by Locarno Film Festival