Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East

Sunny Jain’s career is a celebration of cultural diaspora’ deep-rooted tradition rippling outward, shaping and reshaping the cultures it touches. A composer, drummer, dhol player, and thought leader, Jain has been hailed by Songlines (UK) as ?one of the leading figures in North America’s burgeoning Asian music scene.’ His wide-ranging work includes being named a 2025 commissioned artist by Soho Repertory Theater, appearing as ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ in the Oscar-nominated A Complete Unknown, and serving as a 2023-24 Visiting Scholar and Artist-in-Residence at Wesleyan University. Best known as the founder of Red Baraat, Jain has reached new heights with Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East (Smithsonian Folkways), a project praised by The New Yorker for its maximalist vision and conceptual depth. Blending Bollywood, Punjabi folk, jazz improvisation, and psychedelia, the band has delivered standout NPR Tiny Desk and KEXP sessions and toured major festivals and cultural institutions worldwide.