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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, from his own family’s immigration story to his eclectic musical upbringing. In recasting the immigrant—steeped in the courage to leave a familiar homeland for a new beginning—as the modern-day cowboy and cowgirl, Jain sources musical inspiration from the scores of Bollywood classics and Spaghetti Westerns, Indian folk traditions, jazz improvisation, and rollicking psychedelic and surf guitar styles.  Wild Wild East is an album rooted in the contemporary American soundscape, singing in a new voice, "I am large, I contain multitudes."

1. Immigrant Warrior
2. Wild Wild East (ft. Ganavya)
3. Osian
4. Red, Brown, Black (ft. Haseeb)
5. Aye Mere Dil Kahin Aur Chal (Remembrance)
6. Aye Mere Dil Kahin Aur Chal
7. Baaghi (ft. Aditya Prakash)
8. Blackwell (ft. Alam Khan)
9. Hai Apna Dil (ft. Ganavya)
10. Tumse Lagi Lagan
11. Maitri Bhavanu (ft. Ganavya)
12. Brooklyn Dhamal

Produced by Sunny Jain and Joel Hamilton. Engineered and Mixed by Joel Hamilton at Studio G in Brooklyn, NY. All tracks mastered by Pete Reiniger. Photography by Ebru Yildiz. Package Layout by Louis Cuffari.

Sunny Jain – drumset, dhol/effects, percussion
Grey Mcmurray – guitar, bulbul tarang
Pawan Benjamin - tenor saxophone/effects, shehnai, bansuri
Kenny Bentley – sousaphone/effects
Dave Smoota Smith – trombone
Ganavya – vocals
Aditya Prakash - vocals
Haseeb - rap
Alam Khan - sarod

Includes 42-page liner notes booklet