Jaggernaut

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Jaggernaut
Suns of Arqa Jaggernaut.jpeg
Studio album by
Released1989 (1989)
Genre
Length41:17
Label Antler/Subway ANT 104
Producer Michael Wadada
Suns of Arqa chronology
White Band Speak With Forked Tongue
(1989)
Jaggernaut
(1989)
Alap-Joe-Jhala
(1992)

Jaggernaut is the seventh studio album by the band Suns of Arqa, released in 1989 by Antler/Subway Records. [1] [2] The album was produced by Suns of Arqa founder Michael Wadada. [3]

Contents

Although the album has never been released on CD, it was remixed by Youth, Greg Hunter and Astralasia in 1992 [4] and released on CD under the new title 'Jaggernaut Whirling Dub'. [5]

The original Jaggernaut LP is in four parts. Side A contains the first two, which are based on ragas Bhairavi & Bhupali, and Side B contains interpretations of ragas Yaman Kalyam & Misra Pahvadi. [6]

These would later become some of the most often remixed Suns of Arqa tracks, as remixes of the album produced not only Jaggernaut Whirling Dub, [7] but also 'Cradle' (1992) [8] and a further remix album of 'Cradle' in 2002. [9] The B-Sides of a later single 'Erasmus Meets The Earthling' [10] were three tracks remixed from Jaggernaut Whirling Dub, entitled "Whirling Dub", "Whirling Full" and "Whirling Forest". [11]

And these re-remixes were themselves remixed further... "Whirling Dub" was yet again remixed by Bryn Jones for Musilimgauze [12] and "Whirling Forest" was remixed for the album 'Technomor' in the late 1990s! [13]

Track listing

Side A

  1. "Jagnath Bhairavi" – 10:52
  2. "Jagannath Bhupali" – 9:06

Side B

  1. "Jaggernnath Yaman Kalyan" – 8:45
  2. "Juggernaut Misra Pahvadi" – 12:33

Personnel

This album features Kadir Durvesh on Shenai, Tim Wheater on Flute, Marek Miczyk on Violin and Wadada on Bass and Acoustic Guitar [14]

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  3. Sleevenotes of LP
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  5. "Suns of Arqa – Jaggernaut Whirling Dub (1992, CD)". Discogs .
  6. Sleevenotes of LP
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  13. "Suns of Arqa - Technomor - Remixes Vol. 4". Discogs .
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