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Suns of Arqa creator and mentor Michael Wadada has been continuously investigating the supernatural potential hidden in the Classical Raga structure of the music of India. His mission – to mix the cerebral and illusive cosmological vibrations of Raga, with the mother earth rhythms of Niyabinghi drumming that were surfacing in England in the guise of Dub Reggae

For twenty years since the birth and subsequent worldwide spread of the experimentally oriented genre of downtempo electronic, SUNS OF ARQA has been one of the greatest behind-the-scenes pioneers. Their music is the sum of a vast and widely variable equation of musical connection and imagination.

The Arqa story begins in 1979 in Manchester, England, with a man named Michael Wadada, who was destined to mastermind one of the most obscure yet influential acts in the genre to date. Three years after his musical beginnings, Wadada attracted notice from Peter Gabriel, and performed alongside, such varied inventive geniuses as poet John Cooper Clarke, linguist Professor Stanley Unwin, flautist Tim Wheater, Adrian Sherwood and the legendary Jamaican DJ, Prince Far-I, as well as many others.

Just over half a decade later, Wadada produced "Land of a Thousand Churches" featuring many of his old musical friends as well as new ones, such as James Young, Helen Watson and afro-jazz star Feso Trombone. This album was in many ways a fusion of the two seemingly different musical and spiritual spheres of the Celtic and Hindu. The results were deemed by many as revolutionary within music and quickly came to be identified with Wadada's pioneering musical style.

By the mid-nineties, SUNS OF ARQA was in full swing, having begun to delve into the emerging electronic genres of drum and bass and jungle, dub and others, working with names such as Guy Called Gerald, 808 State, Zion Train, John Leckie, Youth, Muslim Gauze and the infamous Astralasia. The Arqa stage setup was more diverse and worldly than ever before, encompassing sounds of Scottish bagpipes, hurdy gurdy,Indian strings and vocals, reggae percussion, just to name a few.

Today, Michael Wadada is still hard at work under the Arqa banner, this time in the studio, delving deeper into the musically yet-unperceived. Having released a slew of albums under various labels, exposing and promoting styles from every corner of the globe into one harmonious amalgam. SUNS OF ARQA’S latest release, a dual disc compilation containing mixtures of the sounds which span and define their career to now, all seamlessly blended into a globetrotting safari of eclectic musical fusions and collusions. After almost thirty years of innovations that have truly set this name onto its own level, the future can hold nothing but limitless potential for the genre-bending and genre-forging vehicle known as SUNS OF ARQA.