Listen to 3 tracks by Suns of Arqa recorded live at the
Flamjangles Tea Party in Cape Town in March 2011
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New album - Stranger Music - out on 1st April
 The following is a review by Dave Mac for World Beat:
Some facts you should know. Suns of Arqa have been on the World Beat Music scene since 1979. They played at the very first Womad Music Festival in Shepton Mallet at the personal invitation of Peter Gabriel. Enough said. Having performed over the years at many major European festivals such as Glastonbury, Big Chill, Telerama Dub festival to mention a few, this intriguing outfit are best known for their fusion of Indian music and electro dub. They have always had a strong indigenous element to their compositions. So imagine my surprise when I popped this into the CD player to discover an album of Leonard Cohen cover songs. Sound interesting? Or maybe you’re thinking what the heck? Let me tell you Stranger Music is a phenomenal reinterpretation of Leonard Cohen like I’ve never heard before. Fusing their signature world beat elements, tight electronica and dub with some absolutely gorgeous vocal delivery if I had not known that these were Leonard Cohen covers, I may not have guessed it, such is the magnificent reconstruction of his songs. I cannot recommend this enough for any serious world beat fan. Simply superb.
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New album - Know Thyself? out on 10th September 2010 on Interchill records
 This is a stunningly beautiful album of contemporary classical indian music comprising 4 rarely heard ragas, featuring transcendental melodies from bansuri master raghunath seth, with appropriately subtle production from suns of arqa.
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MUSIC MEDIA MONTHLY REVIEW
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SCARED SACRED
 New
Suns of Arqa album available now.
7 New studio tracks,
mixed, arranged and produced by Wadada and Youth.
The musicians are:
Ragunath
Seth
Johar Ali
Candida Valentino
Youth
Durga
DJ Guapo
Angel Eye
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of Arqa are
an ever-expanding collective of musicians, who, under the guidance
of Wadada - produce some of the most eclectic and uplifting music
you are likely to come across. This
site has information about all their recordings from 1979 onwards,
some samples of audio, a calendar of live dates, news and much more.
Suns
of Arqa CD's can now be purchased
online!
SPECIAL
- ALL CD's REDUCED IN PRICE. ALBUMS NOW
AVAILABLE FROM AS LOW AS £3.50!!
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here to visit the shop.
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 New double compilation album - Through the Gate we go
20 tracks. Click here for a full track breakdown.
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Hindu Pict DVD released on 6th November 2006
 HINDU
PICT chronicles WADADA’s
mission to merge
Ancient Hindustani Music with Dub and contemporary dance
rhythms. Performances range from their debut gig, at the very first
WOMAD festival through to Glastonbury 2005 and Paris 2006.
Track listing:
1 CRADLE
2 COSMIC JUGALBANDI 3 SNELSON’S LAST STAND/PURE
REALITY
4 HE DID NOT DIE 5 THE TRUTH LIES THERE IN 6 BASANT DHRUPAD
7 MICHEL-KI-MALHAR 8 NO DANGER HERE 9 QUETZALCOATL
10 GOVINDA’S HOUSE IN THE CITY OF NINE GATES 11 MAGICZNA
MITOSC
12 STEPPIN’ TO THE MUSIC 13 PABLO’S LAMENT 14 ASTRAL
CRAWLING
15 WADADA RAGA 16 BEYOND THE BEYOND 17 RHYTHM + RAAG TV Show
18 BHANGRA BEAT TV Show 19 TIM WHEATER interview 20 PRAGUE
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 Hallucinasia
Produced by
WADADA and the Reverse Brothers
Tracks 1 to 12 mixed by the Reverse Brothers
Recorded Mumbai + New Delhi + Thessalonika
Raghunath Seth - Bansuri
Wadada - Bass Guitar
Johar Ali - Violin
Reverse Brothers - Keyboards + Programming
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These albums and all available Suns
of Arqa recordings are available now. Click
here for information about distributors in your part of the world,
or for mail order information.
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Full Discography - Click here for a complete list of all the records that SOA have appeared on.
Want to know
more about Suns of Arqa?
Read The Story So Far which will fill you in
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Live
dates
updated 23rd March 2010
Pictures
Of Suns of Arqa in performance
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