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News |  20 Feb 2009 16:53 |  By RnMTeam

EarthSync releases Nagore Sessions in India

MUMBAI: Chennai-based world music label EarthSync launched Nagore Sessions, a unique musical collaboration featuring three dargah singers from Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu. The album is being distributed in by EMI in India.

Speaking on the release of the album, Ms. Sonya Mazumdar, CEO, EarthSync, said "It is with great pride that we release Nagore Sessions, a unique and harmonious collaboration of music signatures from different regions. The dargah singers initially worked with us on 'Laya Project' and we felt that their music deserves an exclusive and international platform. Other elements like western, middle-eastern and North Indian instruments collaborate to create an album deeply enriched by the diversity of the different artists. We are certain that music-lovers will enjoy this album."

EarthSync is known to nurture folk, tribal and native music. Their passion of cultures, music and sound often takes them to little-known lands and their music. Through a high-end recording studio in Chennai, EarthSync has been undertaking projects of and by musicians evolving their own style from the rich music of their roots. Recently, their live production Laya project had made it to the opening show of the Perth International Arts Festival. The project was a recording of live sounds and artists from six tsunami-affected countries including India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

The vocals on this album have been rendered by Abdul Ghani, Ajah Maideen and Saburmaideen Babha Sabeer of the local Nagore dargah. The album also features a select line-up of well-known guest artists, including Zohar Fresco on Middle Eastern percussions, horns by Monks from the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, sarangi by maestro Murad Ali Khan, rhodes and programming by Patrick Sebag, harmonium by Palakkad Sreeram and bass by David Saban. The album has raw sufi melodies in tracks like Bagdad Guru, The Saint, Ya Allah, Allahu Allah, Ya Haja, Into Your Eyes and Mahane Mohabbat.

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