New English Music Album released by Sanjo The Balladeer

Independent artiste Sanjo The Balladeer (whose real name is Ranen Ranjan Sarker) released his new full-length English album, "Just a Little Twist of Lemon", available worldwide on all major music streaming platforms, in September 2026. The 10-track album explores themes as diverse as relationships, inner struggles, environment-consciousness and mysticism. The music, lyrics and style have a distinct retro flavour retaining, at the same time, a strong contemporary ethos and context.

The songs capture a variety of moods from the dark and the sombre (Man of Stone and Fly Away) to light-hearted fun (Whisky and Just a Little Twist of Lemon). Two of the songs have strong environment-related messages (The Bright Side of a Pandemic and What Have You Done to My World?). Other songs explore the complexities of romantic relationships (Fragments of You in My Life and Please Come Back). Finally, there are songs that explore mystical musings and the artiste’s personal philosophy (Boatman and An Inky Patch of Darkness, respectively).

One of the highlights of the album is that not only has Sanjo written, composed, arranged and performed all the songs, he has also played all the musical instruments that can be heard on the album – acoustic guitar; electric guitar; bass guitar; keyboards, etc. The percussion instruments are played by Sanjo’s close friend and long-time music partner, Ajit Singh, who has been playing with Sanjo for over 15 years.

In the past, Sanjo has performed a series of shows called “The Songs of The Balladeer” which was well-received by audiences across India. The shows were a blend of songs and storytelling – with Sanjo taking the audience behind-the-scenes into tales and trivia underlying the songs, the artistes and their creative process. Some of the material on this album was performed during those shows and it evoked an enthusiastic response from the audience.