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Suns of Arqa ~ Through The Gates We Go
Release Date: 25th April 2008
For twenty years since the birth and subsequent worldwide spread of the experimentally oriented genre of downtempo electronic, SUNS OF ARQA has been one of the greatest behind-the-scenes pioneers. Their music is the sum of a vast and widely variable equation of musical connection and imagination.
The Arqa story begins in 1979 in Manchester, England, with a man named Michael Wadada, who was destined to mastermind one of the most obscure yet influential acts in the genre to date. Three years after his musical beginnings, Wadada attracted notice from Peter Gabriel, and performed alongside, such varied inventive geniuses as poet John Cooper Clarke, linguist Professor Stanley Unwin, flautist Tim Wheater, Adrian Sherwood and the legendary Jamaican DJ, Prince Far-I, as well as many others.
Just over half a decade later, Wadada produced "Land of a Thousand Churches" featuring many of his old musical friends as well as new ones, such as James Young, Helen Watson and afro-jazz star Feso Trombone. This album was in many ways a fusion of the two seemingly different musical and spiritual spheres of the Celtic and Hindu. The results were deemed by many as revolutionary within music and quickly came to be identified with Wadada's pioneering musical style.
By the mid-nineties, SUNS OF ARQA was in full swing, having begun to delve into the emerging electronic genres of drum and bass and jungle, dub and others, working with names such as Guy Called Gerald, 808 State, Zion Train, John Leckie, Youth, Muslim Gauze and the infamous Astralasia. The Arqa stage setup was more diverse and worldly than ever before, encompassing sounds of Scottish bagpipes, hurdy gurdy,Indian strings and vocals, reggae percussion, just to name a few.
Today, Michael Wadada is still hard at work under the Arqa banner, this time in the studio, delving deeper into the musically yet-unperceived. Having released a slew of albums under various labels, exposing and promoting styles from every corner of the globe into one harmonious amalgam. SUNS OF ARQA’S latest release, a dual disc compilation is compiled TomFu (Liquid Records), who is a very well respected DJ in the UK scene for many years in the downtempo and ethnic scene. The 2 CD compilation contains a mixtures of the sounds which span and define their career to now, all seamlessly blended into a globetrotting safari of eclectic musical fusions and collusions. After almost thirty years of innovations that have truly set this name onto its own level, the future can hold nothing but limitless potential for the genre-bending and genre-forging vehicle known as SUNS OF ARQA.
Full Info and Samples
http://www.triskelemanagement.com/promotion/throughthegates
Disc 1
1. Mongolian Lullaby
2. Lama Geshe
3. Magiczna Mitose
4. Lamudia Dub
5. Off to Pluto
6. Tarang
7. Govinda's House
8. Basant Dhrupad
9. Durga Dub
10. Rosin + Reed
11. Bhairavi Alap
12. Through The Gates We Go
13. Misra Pahvadi
14. Tomorrow Never Knows
Disc 2
1. Cradle
2. Ageng Mimansa
3. Durga Dub
4. Whirling Full
5. Bharavi Alap
6. Bha Ravi
7. He Did Not Die
8. Cosmic Jugalbandi
9. Cosmic Jugalbandi
10. Cosmic Jugalbandi
11. Cosmic Jugalbandi
12. Fomorian
13. Kalavati Alap
Reviews / Quotes
"took me back to the heady days of my mispent later teens and the pyschedelic music I first discovered way back then....which is how i felt during the early hours of sunday when i listened to it for the first time, and again the same when i played in its entirerity during the show"
Dave Arc-I : Sunday Chillout - http://www.psystream.net
"Some listeners will find this music immediately delightful, .......Recommended."
Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
Coming Soon from Arka Sounds
May 9th: Juggernaut Whirling Dub :: Release Info and Samples
May 9th: Magiczna Mitosc :: Release Info and Samples
Worldwide distribution through Arabesque | http://www.arabesque.co.uk | mark.bedford@arab.co.uk |
Related Links
Suns of Arqa | http://www.sunsofarqa.co.uk |
Suns of Arqa Myspace | http://www.myspace.com/sunsofarqa |
Triskele Management.com | http://www.triskelemanagement.com |
Triskele Myspace | http://www.myspace.com/robintriskele |
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