| EarthSync | |
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| Founded | 2005 |
| Genre | World Music |
| Country of origin | India |
| Location | Chennai |
| Official Website | http://www.earthsync.com |
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.
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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’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 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 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.
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 is a coming together of devotional poetry, Rajasthani rhythms, and western sounds in a celebration of divine love and life. 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
5 years after the Laya Project journey began, urban music embraces diverse traditions and cultures in Laya Project’s musical celebration of life
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.
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 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