EQUA is a UK-based world fusion music project, founded by the multi-media artist and record producer Sadia Sadia

Sadia Sadia

Sadia Sadia is a director, editor, producer and installation artist. She is also an award-winning record producer and songwriter.Sadia began her career by becoming one of the first women in the world to be signed to a major label as a record producer...

 and composer & sound designer Stephen W Tayler

Stephen W Tayler

Stephen Tayler is a mixing and recording engineer, music producer, composer and sound designer who has contributed this collection of talents to hundreds of world-class albums for artists including Kate Bush, Suzanne Vega, Peter Gabriel, Underworld, Duncan Sheik, Howard Jones, Stevie Nicks, Rush,...

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First released by Polygram

PolyGram

PolyGram was the name of the major label recording company started by Philips from as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. In 1999 it was sold to Seagram and merged into Universal Music Group.-Hollandsche Decca Distributie , 1929-1950:...

 (Australia) in 1996, and based on an original idea by Sadia Sadia

Sadia Sadia

Sadia Sadia is a director, editor, producer and installation artist. She is also an award-winning record producer and songwriter.Sadia began her career by becoming one of the first women in the world to be signed to a major label as a record producer...

, Equa’s brief is to find links based on the commonality of human experience. The original album features music gathered from the ‘Tropical Belt’, which was compiled and cross-referenced by theme, region, instrument, key and tempo. This allowed the artists to search for the thematic and musical links in performances and samples, and translate these into a new context.

The resulting album begins with ‘Departure’, of which an extended remix by Tricky

Tricky

Tricky is an English musician and actor. As a producer and a musician, he is noted for a dark, rich and layered sound and a whispering sprechgesang lyrical style. Culturally, Tricky encourages an intertwining of societies, particularly in his musical fusion of rock and hip hop, high art and pop...

 also featured on the original single, and closes with an ‘Arrival'. The intervening tracks seek to mirror not only a physical but a spiritual journey. The album is intended to reflect the circadian rhythm of each day, as it begins with dawn sounds and closes with a ‘Lullaby’ presaging the coming of the night. The subtext underscoring this is not only the rhythm of each day, but the cycle within each human life.

The album was nominated for an ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association

Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

) Award and has been widely synchronised to film and television programmes.

More recently Equa completed the soundtrack for the critically acclaimed film The Noon Gun

The Noon Gun

The Noon Gun is a 2004 documentary film directed by Anthony Stern. In 1971, the experimental film maker Anthony Stern travelled to Afghanistan with his 16 mm film camera...

, directed by Anthony Stern

Anthony Stern

Anthony Stern was born in Cambridge, England in 1944 and first started making films while at Cambridge University, working as assistant to the avant-garde documentary film maker Peter Whitehead....

, which received its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival

Melbourne International Film Festival

The Melbourne International Film Festival is an acclaimed annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1951, making it one of the oldest in the World....

 (MIFF) 2004.

External links

• Chimera Arts Official website for Sadia Sadia
  Sadia Sadia
  Sadia Sadia is a director, editor, producer and installation artist. She is also an award-winning record producer and songwriter.Sadia began her career by becoming one of the first women in the world to be signed to a major label as a record producer...
  
  , Stephen W Tayler
  Stephen W Tayler
  Stephen Tayler is a mixing and recording engineer, music producer, composer and sound designer who has contributed this collection of talents to hundreds of world-class albums for artists including Kate Bush, Suzanne Vega, Peter Gabriel, Underworld, Duncan Sheik, Howard Jones, Stevie Nicks, Rush,...
  
  , Equa and The Noon Gun
  The Noon Gun
  The Noon Gun is a 2004 documentary film directed by Anthony Stern. In 1971, the experimental film maker Anthony Stern travelled to Afghanistan with his 16 mm film camera...
  
  
• IMDb Entry Sadia Sadia
  Sadia Sadia
  Sadia Sadia is a director, editor, producer and installation artist. She is also an award-winning record producer and songwriter.Sadia began her career by becoming one of the first women in the world to be signed to a major label as a record producer...
  
  
• IMDb Entry Stephen W Tayler
  Stephen W Tayler
  Stephen Tayler is a mixing and recording engineer, music producer, composer and sound designer who has contributed this collection of talents to hundreds of world-class albums for artists including Kate Bush, Suzanne Vega, Peter Gabriel, Underworld, Duncan Sheik, Howard Jones, Stevie Nicks, Rush,...
  
  
• IMDb Entry The Noon Gun
  The Noon Gun
  The Noon Gun is a 2004 documentary film directed by Anthony Stern. In 1971, the experimental film maker Anthony Stern travelled to Afghanistan with his 16 mm film camera...