‘A must listen! A fantastic CD bursting with all corners of creative music, Surinder has found a way to bring several different strands of musical expression together – Jazz, Indian Classical, UK POP, Classical and more on a single CD that unites a nation through the power of his music’ Courtney Pine ‘Working with a musician such as Surinder Sandhu gives great insight into the workings of a genius mind’, Dennis Rollins Groundbreaking musician Surinder Sandhu brings his incredibly dynamic band to Liverpool for an exclusive performance. Surinder has been working with The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra since his first release ‘SauRang Orchestra’, which featured amongst others, guitar legend Steve Vai, Sax star Andy Sheppard and some of India’s finest soloists. This year Surinder returns with ‘The Fictionist’, partly commissioned by The Liverpool Culture Company to celebrate Liverpool 08, The Fictionist has been described as Led Zepplin meets Star Wars. Featuring an epic line up of a 75 piece orchestra, 2 choirs and 20 soloists, this is not a record to be taken lightly! Look forward to an amazing journey with Surinder’s rich tapestry of Indian melodies powered by his incredibly dynamic band with the lush combination of The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra recorded in there gorgeous concert hall. One of the best examples of East-West music I’ve heard in years Songlines Some of the most amazing music I have ever heard Janice Long, BBC Radio 2 [Surinder’s] virtuosity draws the ear whenever he plays BBC Music Magazine Surinder Sandhu has created music that has managed to ingrain multi-cultural hooks and is by turns exciting, accessible, but also ambitious, rare and intelligent The Times \'Don’t look now, but perhaps the most exciting music in jazz happening today is coming from the influences of the Eastern world, and India in particular, This album puts Sandhu in the forefront of one of the most exciting jazz experiments now underway!\' Walter Kolosky, allaboutjazz.com Surinder knows what an orchestra sounds like and what an orchestra can do and he relies on me to see that it does it. It’s a very creative process and Surinder is one of the most creative musicians I’ve ever worked with Richard Gordon Smith, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra