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Miriam Linna and Billy Miller have become something of garage and RnB curators. The pair’s Norton Records is responsible to re-issuing the catalogs of folks as far ranging as Link Wray and Sun Ra. There might be serpentine reasonings as to why or how those two folks are related musically, but even if there’s not, each ranks as good music. And that’s why Norton’s involved.

But in addition to digging up old treasures, the New York based imprint issues new groups, who for the most part have an eye to the past, it’s recordings and its heroes. So, in putting work out by Arish Ahmad Khan, better known to garage enthusiasts as King Khan, and his various pseudonyms, Norton’s in effect cementing more music’s historical import. At some point in the next few decades, it wouldn’t be too much of a shock if a compilation cropped up with a number of disparate players redoing Khan’s various compositions. There’re surely enough to go around.

Either way, this latest project called Tandoori Knights plays on Khan’s background, he’s joined by Bloodshot Bill whose own album as the Ding Dongs is being sent off into the world by Norton as well.