Remixes, DJ Edits and re-interpretations of tracks from Laraaji’s Bring On The Sun and Sun Gong albums by Ras G, Natureboy Flako, Dntel, Larry Mizell, Mia Doi Todd, Dexter Story, Carlos Niño, Diva, Benjamin Tierney and Daniel Givens.
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released April 21, 2018
Sun Transformations co-ordinated and produced by Carlos Niño.
Mastered by Jeff Mortimer at JM Mastering, Vinyl lacquer cut by Beau Thomas at Ten Eight Seven.
Original Bring On The Sun and Sun Gong recordings produced by Laraaji & Carlos Niño. Recorded by Davey Jewell,
session Assistance by Daniel Givens. Mixed by Benjamin Tierney & Carlos Niño.
All compositions by Edward Larry Gordon, Warp Music Publishing Ltd.
Cover Photograph by Liam Ricketts. Inner sleeve stills from the Bring On The Sun film by Jake Moore and Oliver Rivard. Design by Jaffa at the Unknown.
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Listening to all of these intriguingly mystical and ambitiously complimenting remixes has not only allowed me to hear my music through the ears and sensuality of other competent music makers but has opened my creative musical imagination to the art of reinventing and recycling my own pre-released music. I think I will now like to share in the fun and remix some of my own earlier
music for future creative joy. Each of these remixes and expanded treatments of my original Bring on The Sun album tracks reveal artistic sensitivity of a most precious touching quality. Listening to each one frees my own ears from the ribbons of old self classifications and sound boundaries.
Flow and meditate well in 2018’s vast love wave.
LARAAJI
New York City, January 2018
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Knowing Laraaji is a great Honor and Joy!
It all started for me in August 2013 when I was called by producer / curator Douglas McGowan to host a filmed talk
with new age legend Iasos (my dear soul brother) and Laraaji on the historic day of their first ever meeting. It took
place in the forest near Iasos's home in Marin, California, and a portion of it was used as the promotional video for
McGowan's profound I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America, 1950-1990 box set.
For the next several years I stayed in touch with Laraaji, who I'd been familiar with since I first picked up Day Of Radiance
in the late 90s, and been a huge fan of since my great friend Jesse Peterson turned me on to Essence / Universe in 2005.
I was involved in several concerts with His High Orangeness in Los Angeles as a DJ and Host. I invited Laraaji to play a duet with me at Commend, NYC in June 2016. That turned out to foreshadow our 2017 Sun Dreaming tour. Among our conversations we talked about a new record that he was scheduled to work on. I was very eager to help him with it in any way I could. I was given the opportunity to be the co-producer and mixer of what became his September 2017 released
records Bring On The Sun and Sun Gong.
After Laraaji recorded almost nine hours of new music over two days in early August 2016, the New York sessions were sent to me in California to excerpt and edit from, mix, then choose what pieces would be released. My close collaborator and gifted mix engineer Benjamin Tierney and I mixed all nine hours. I then sent everything to Laraaji and we listened for our favorite pieces and sections. When we agreed on which parts were the most special, Benjamin and I expanded
and finalized the mixes. Along with Laraaji and executive producer Matthew Jones of All Saints / Warp Records we came up with all the final sequences.
The whole time we were working on the official project, I was thinking about remixes, about who we could ask to join in on the fun, and of making one myself. We could have kept going and collected many more remixes. Everyone that we asked was into it and some dropped everything they were doing to contribute. (If you are reading this and you would have liked to have been asked to make a remix, I likely agree. Thank you for your love and support!). To those who are a part of Laraaji Sun Transformations I send eternal aloha! Truly heart fire stoked we did this! Special thanks to Leaving Records, Numero Group, Dublab, and especially Matthew and Laraaji!
Sincerely,
CARLOS NIÑO
Woodland Hills, California
January 2018
Laraaji is a musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner based in New York City. He began playing music on the
streets in the 1970s, improvising experimental jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. He has since released albums for a variety of labels, often recording himself at home and selling the results as cassettes during his street performances....more
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