Jonny Greenwood is mixing his second album with Dudu Tassa

Jonny Greenwood's second album with Dudu Tassa, the follow-up to 2023's Jarak Qaribak, is almost finished and being mixed, he tells Craig McLean in the Telegraph. It is the first time the two have worked with Iranian musicians, who went on recording and sending files back while missiles were landing. How it will come out is undecided; he says that if a label took it on, I think it would be BDS'd out of the office¹.

One contributor in London agreed to take part only if his name was left off. Greenwood says they refused, since the other musicians, some of them from Egypt and Morocco, were keeping their names on it. In Greenwood's account, the man was afraid of being seen as tacitly endorsing Netanyahu. That was his fear. It's gruesome¹.

The interview, at a plain restaurant near his home in the Oxfordshire countryside, was arranged around Ranjha, his second album with Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express, out on World Circuit/BMG since 8 May. The title comes from an Indian romance in which Ranjha is the Romeo figure.

His bandmates like and admire the projects, Greenwood says, even if they would rather things were less complicated. I'm sure they wish it was simpler. But they're still supportive.¹