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The WireDec 11, 2017The mainstreaming of yoga, mindfulness and other pursuits of spiritual enrichment in our digitally distracted, permanently anxious modern reality might have tipped the balance, as Laraaji pulls in listeners who aren’t necessarily collectors of forgotten, strange or otherwise outsider music. [Nov 2017, p.58]
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MojoOct 24, 2017The album's eight, unusually varied essays largely eschew sonic wallpaper stereotype, invested as they are with playfulness and a genuine sense of Eastern-flavoured spiritual uplift. [Dec 2017, p.92]
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Oct 13, 2017Bring On The Sun’s fascinating sonic tensions never make the listener feel tense. This is cure-all musical therapy for the ages.
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Oct 12, 2017Sun Gong comes across like Laraaji’s own personal answer to the Reverend CL Franklin’s rhythmic yet unsettlingly intense sermons.
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Oct 2, 2017Introspective in personal as well as universal ways, Bring on the Sun is an excellent sampler of Laraaji's many strengths.
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Sep 26, 2017Bring on the Sun is the more interesting release, one that sounds as if Laraaji has jumbled up 600 years of music from every part of the world--medieval plainsong, Javan gamelan, Hindustani classical music and so on--and arranged it into eight pieces of minimalism.
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Sep 26, 2017Laraaji brings a broader array of compositions to the eccentric Bring on the Sun. Where Sun Gong is dark and improvised, Bring on the Sun is made of weightless hypnotic loops (one is called “Laraajazzi”) and contemplative vocal tracks with standard song structures.
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UncutSep 26, 2017Bring On The Sun is a sprawling collection, encompassing everything from euphoric zither washes to jazzy beat poetry, without ever losing sight of its mood of sunny positivity. [Nov 2017, p.30]