We’re less than a month away from the release Sage Warrior, the second solo album from musician, educator and activist Sonny Singh. The album was created as a companion to the book with the same name by Singh’s longtime friend and visionary civil rights leader Valarie Kaur, with each track on Sage Warrior accompanying a chapter in the book. Sonny had previously shared the joyous, inspiring and heartwarming ‘Pavan Guru’, and now he’s unleashed a video to accompany new single ‘Jaano Jot’, weaving between Punjabi, cumbia, and reggae. “This is a very important song to me – drawing from the revolutionary words of Guru Nanak over 500 years ago yet so relevant in today’s world where millions of people are dehumanized through policies of war and occupation and rising hateful and violent political rhetoric”, Sonny stated. “I see this sacred poetry and music as a call to action to speak up and stand up for the oppressed, from Punjab to Palestine.”

The accompanying video was shot and directed by Shruti Parekh, and depicts Sikh community members in Richmond Hill, Queens preparing food in the kitchen, known as a langar hall, of a gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship. Kaur explains this advent in the upcoming book:

“Langar was embodied protest. Radical and subversive. Eating together with people of all castes and creeds meant rejecting with your body and breath adherence to hierarchy. High caste people ate from the hands of low-­ caste “untouchables,” and vice versa. They were training their bodies into a new way of being, undoing millennia of conditioning. They became new in the act: equal, and equally beloved.

Langar was more than a rebellion: It was a practice for an alternative world of solidarity, dignity, and humility.”

Watch the video for ‘Jaano Jot’ now.

Sage Warrior is out on September 6th.