Laraaji

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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.

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Laraaji: Through Luminous Eyes

Read "Through Luminous Eyes" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
January 11, 2021

Ambient/New Age veteran Laraaji is best known for his meditative electrified zither playing, His first broad exposure came with the Brian Eno-produced Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (Editions EG, 1980). Recently he returned to the piano--his first instrument--on Sun Piano and Moon Piano (Self Produced, 2020). Although he considers the EP Through Luminous Eyes to be the final part of his piano trilogy, it is the fascinating result of Laraaji playing both instruments at once, in real time, in a ...

Album Review

Laraaji: Vision Songs Vol. 1

Read "Vision Songs Vol. 1" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
January 8, 2018

In 2017, the Luaka Bop label released WORLD SPIRITUALITY CLASSICS 1: THE ECSTATIC MUSIC OF ALICE COLTRANE TURIYASANGITANANDA and at the beginning of 2018, the time has come to unearth another cosmic classic: Laraaji's album Vision Songs Vol. 1. It was originally released in 1984, four years after his formal breakthrough with the album Day of Radiance that came out as a part of Brian Eno's ambient series, subtitled Ambient 3. Indeed, Laraaji could be considered a ...