EarthSync
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EarthSync is a record label and audio-visual production company in Chennai
, South India
. As a world music
record label
, EarthSync works with "roots music through which cultures express themselves across time". The EarthSync CDs and DVDs feature traditional music recorded across Asia
, often fused with other traditional music styles from, for example, the Middle East
. Electronics are also regularly included in the musical mix.
EarthSync also produces world music visual projects to document rare music performances in native locations. Their Laya Project
is a "personal and collective musical tribute to the resilience of the human spirit", and is dedicated to the survivors of the 26th December 2004 Asian tsunami
. A team of sound engineers and camera men took a two-year journey through six tsunami-afftected countries, India
, Indonesia
, Sri Lanka
, Thailand
, Maldives
and Myanmar
, and recorded film footage and music with the local musicians. The film does not feature much on the tsunami itself, but rather records the beauty of the local people, their countries and music.
Laya Project
won various awards (Founder's Choice Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Best Film Award at the Byron Bay Film Festival, Special Juror's Choice Award at Zanzibar International Film Festival
in Tanzania and the Audience Award at Imaginaria Film Festival in Italy) and is being screened at international film festivals in places such as Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur. It is also being broadcast worldwide on the National Geographic Channel.
Albums =
EarthSync has produced six albums to its fame; Laya Project, Nagore Sessions, Voice Over The Bridge, Business Class Refugees, Shoshan & A New Day - Laya Project Remixed
The production is based on regional folk music traditions, recorded and brought back to the studio to create a composition that mixes and arranges the original recordings, and embarks on a visual and musical journey crossing borders, while preserving the music of the people. Some of these performances are rare, and are documented for the first time in this production.
For the international team who came together for this production, Laya Project is a personal and collective tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, and is dedicated to the survivors of the 26th December 2004 Asian tsunami.
Earthy Sufi chants meet compelling percussion from the Middle East and contemporary Western instruments, setting the groove on this unique fusion album. Musicians from many different nationalities, faiths and backgrounds came together to share their music cultures with each other and audiences around the world.
Sufi singers Abdul Ghani, Ajah Maideen and Saburmaideen Babha Sabeer from the Nagore Dargah usually perform at religious and social ceremonies at their sufi shrine in coastal Tamil Nadu (South India).
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 among others.
The Great Songs praising the King were first heard in the ancient 13th century kingdoms of Myanmar. Centuries later, Khing Zin Shwe and Shwe Shwe Khaing sing the Great Songs from the ancient past, in a music collaboration with contemporary Western musicians.
Business Class Refugees is a global, collaborative project by music producer Kartick (Patrick Sebag) and sound designer Gotam (Yotam Agam), who mix local music from around the world with electronica.
The project has no end. Taking their base tracks around the world, Kartick & Gotam collaborate with local musicians to overlay local artistic interpretation and signatures. This album is where Kartick & Gotam’s journey began: India.
Business Class Refugees features distinguished artists from around Asia and the Middle East such as Mahesh Vinayakram, Erez Lev Ari, Navin Iyer, Yoav Bunzel, Anuradha Viswanathan, Murad Ali and Mishko M’Ba.
Shye Ben Tzur
is an acclaimed Israeli composer, producer and performer who has been in India for the past decade, creating music which brings together traditional Sufi Qawwali, Rajasthani rhythms with western elements
Laya Project documents regional folk music traditions in remote villages that lay in the 2004 Asian tsunami's path.
Laya Project's musicians are the people of Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar and India. Performances of unknown local musicians were filmed and recorded on-location, arranged and mixed to create a composition that embarks on a musical journey crossing borders, while still preserving the music of the people.
Five years later, bridging the distance, urban music embraces diverse traditions and cultures in Laya Project's musical celebration of life... A New Day.
The tonal richness of the Veena in multiple layers embedded layer within layer, becomes the voice of the self, and expresses the multiple personalities that are inherent in a person and the ceaseless thoughts that make the Self: the individual, a single mind, a single heart, a million thoughts in tandem, multiple roles, a different persona in each relationship.
The resonance of each of the many strings of the seven veenas used come together in harmonious musical synergy, and the mysterious dualities of a single existential entity emerge.
EarthMoments =
EarthMoments was created by EarthSync to offer music producers unique collections of high quality samples and a space to explore unique sounds and signatures that sets the creative spirit free to cross borders, explore, and discover unique instruments and sounds of the world.
EarthMoments is a division of EarthSync, a world music record label, and producer of award-winning audio and visual productions that brings together traditional and contemporary music in unique, high quality productions.
Our passion for cultures, music, sound and excellence often goes beyond the studio to little known lands and their music. We bring these unknown sounds, instruments and music to the international platform through albums, documentary films, live shows, collaborative projects, and unique platforms for music production
External links =
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...
, South India
South India
South India is the area encompassing India's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area...
. As a world music
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
, EarthSync works with "roots music through which cultures express themselves across time". The EarthSync CDs and DVDs feature traditional music recorded across Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, often fused with other traditional music styles from, for example, the Middle East
Middle East
The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...
. Electronics are also regularly included in the musical mix.
EarthSync also produces world music visual projects to document rare music performances in native locations. Their Laya Project
Laya Project
Laya Project is a world music documentary produced by EarthSync, a world music audio-visual production company based in South India. The project is a "personal and collective musical tribute to the resilience of the human spirit", and is dedicated to the survivors of the December 26 2004 Asian...
is a "personal and collective musical tribute to the resilience of the human spirit", and is dedicated to the survivors of the 26th December 2004 Asian tsunami
Tsunami
A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake...
. A team of sound engineers and camera men took a two-year journey through six tsunami-afftected countries, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
, Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, Maldives
Maldives
The Maldives , , officially Republic of Maldives , also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls oriented north-south off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and...
and Myanmar
Myanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....
, and recorded film footage and music with the local musicians. The film does not feature much on the tsunami itself, but rather records the beauty of the local people, their countries and music.
Laya Project
Laya Project
Laya Project is a world music documentary produced by EarthSync, a world music audio-visual production company based in South India. The project is a "personal and collective musical tribute to the resilience of the human spirit", and is dedicated to the survivors of the December 26 2004 Asian...
won various awards (Founder's Choice Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Best Film Award at the Byron Bay Film Festival, Special Juror's Choice Award at Zanzibar International Film Festival
Zanzibar International Film Festival
The Zanzibar International Film Festival , also known as Festival of the Dhow Countries, is an annual film festival held in Zanzibar, Tanzania. It has been described as the largest cultural event in East Africa. During the festival, films are shown in Stone Town in Zanzibar City, as well as rural...
in Tanzania and the Audience Award at Imaginaria Film Festival in Italy) and is being screened at international film festivals in places such as Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur. It is also being broadcast worldwide on the National Geographic Channel.
Albums =
EarthSync has produced six albums to its fame; Laya Project, Nagore Sessions, Voice Over The Bridge, Business Class Refugees, Shoshan & A New Day - Laya Project Remixed
Laya Project
Laya Project’s musicians are the people of coastal and surrounding communities in the 2004 tsunami-affected regions of Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar and India.The production is based on regional folk music traditions, recorded and brought back to the studio to create a composition that mixes and arranges the original recordings, and embarks on a visual and musical journey crossing borders, while preserving the music of the people. Some of these performances are rare, and are documented for the first time in this production.
For the international team who came together for this production, Laya Project is a personal and collective tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, and is dedicated to the survivors of the 26th December 2004 Asian tsunami.
Nagore Sessions
Nagore Sessions is a unique musical collaboration featuring Sufi, Indian, Middle Eastern and Western elements.Earthy Sufi chants meet compelling percussion from the Middle East and contemporary Western instruments, setting the groove on this unique fusion album. Musicians from many different nationalities, faiths and backgrounds came together to share their music cultures with each other and audiences around the world.
Sufi singers Abdul Ghani, Ajah Maideen and Saburmaideen Babha Sabeer from the Nagore Dargah usually perform at religious and social ceremonies at their sufi shrine in coastal Tamil Nadu (South India).
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 among others.
Voice Over The Bridge
Voice Over The Bridge is a musical collaboration between two traditional vocalists in Myanmar and Western musicians.The Great Songs praising the King were first heard in the ancient 13th century kingdoms of Myanmar. Centuries later, Khing Zin Shwe and Shwe Shwe Khaing sing the Great Songs from the ancient past, in a music collaboration with contemporary Western musicians.
Business Class Refugees
Electro - folk without borders, global flavours, and a cross-cultural mixture of emotions, realities, styles, languages - and irresistible grooves.Business Class Refugees is a global, collaborative project by music producer Kartick (Patrick Sebag) and sound designer Gotam (Yotam Agam), who mix local music from around the world with electronica.
The project has no end. Taking their base tracks around the world, Kartick & Gotam collaborate with local musicians to overlay local artistic interpretation and signatures. This album is where Kartick & Gotam’s journey began: India.
Business Class Refugees features distinguished artists from around Asia and the Middle East such as Mahesh Vinayakram, Erez Lev Ari, Navin Iyer, Yoav Bunzel, Anuradha Viswanathan, Murad Ali and Mishko M’Ba.
Shoshan
Shoshan is a coming together of devotional poetry, Rajasthani rhythms, and western sounds in a celebration of divine love and life.Shye Ben Tzur
Shye Ben Tzur
Shye Ben Tzur is an Israeli Qawwali singer who composes qawwalis in Hebrew. He was formerly part of the rock band Sword of Damocles, which he founded. After attending a concert in Jerusalem by the Indian classical musicians Hari Prasad Chaurasia and Zakir Hussain, he became interested in Indian...
is an acclaimed Israeli composer, producer and performer who has been in India for the past decade, creating music which brings together traditional Sufi Qawwali, Rajasthani rhythms with western elements
A New Day - Laya Project Remixed
5 years after the Laya Project journey began, urban music embraces diverse traditions and cultures in Laya Project’s musical celebration of lifeLaya Project documents regional folk music traditions in remote villages that lay in the 2004 Asian tsunami's path.
Laya Project's musicians are the people of Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar and India. Performances of unknown local musicians were filmed and recorded on-location, arranged and mixed to create a composition that embarks on a musical journey crossing borders, while still preserving the music of the people.
Five years later, bridging the distance, urban music embraces diverse traditions and cultures in Laya Project's musical celebration of life... A New Day.
Mysterious Duality
Mysterious Duality is a multi-dimensional reflection of the simple yet complex self, expressed through a single instrument, the Veena. Performed by Dr Jayanthi Kumaresh, the music composition and orchestration is based on India’s Carnatic classical music mathematics of tala and the grammars of raga, while the unique treatment of the symphonic compositions is an entirely new interpretation and perspective.The tonal richness of the Veena in multiple layers embedded layer within layer, becomes the voice of the self, and expresses the multiple personalities that are inherent in a person and the ceaseless thoughts that make the Self: the individual, a single mind, a single heart, a million thoughts in tandem, multiple roles, a different persona in each relationship.
The resonance of each of the many strings of the seven veenas used come together in harmonious musical synergy, and the mysterious dualities of a single existential entity emerge.
EarthMoments =
EarthMoments was created by EarthSync to offer music producers unique collections of high quality samples and a space to explore unique sounds and signatures that sets the creative spirit free to cross borders, explore, and discover unique instruments and sounds of the world.
EarthMoments is a division of EarthSync, a world music record label, and producer of award-winning audio and visual productions that brings together traditional and contemporary music in unique, high quality productions.
Our passion for cultures, music, sound and excellence often goes beyond the studio to little known lands and their music. We bring these unknown sounds, instruments and music to the international platform through albums, documentary films, live shows, collaborative projects, and unique platforms for music production
External links =