Night

About Night

Night is a new-school folk band from Nepal. The band is known for using traditional Nepali instruments in its songs. It aims to reintroduce traditional instruments of Nepal to the modern generation of Nepali-speaking audiences.

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Members

Current members

Jason Kunwar (Vocalist)

Niraj Shakya (Manager)

Shiva Kumari Khatri (Paluwa)

Sudhir Acharya (Percussion)

Sugama Gautam (Vocalist)

Formation

Jason Kunwar, Ranav Adhikari and Niraj Shakya formed Night as a metal band in 2006. But over time, their interest shifted to Nepali folk instruments and folk music, and they became a folk music band.

Notable quotes

“Two years of nights have turned me into a nocturnal animal.”
— The Batman (2022 film)
“The longest day at last bends down to evening.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Travels; or, The Renunciants (1821), tr. Thomas Carlyle (1821)
“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
— Stephenie Meyer, Twilight (2005)
“Qu'une nuit paraît longue à la douleur qui veille!”
— How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain.
“It is as though night set free the soul and taught its independence of physical organization.”
— Henry James Slack, The Ministry of the Beautiful (1850), "Conversation V: A Journey by Night"
“On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn’t. Without even noticing what you’re doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you—you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.”
— Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi (1989); tr. Michael Emmerich (2002)

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Night

Night

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Members

Formation

Notable quotes

Notable quotes

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Members

Formation

Folk music and success

Live performances

Style

Discography