Join Miraya FM and enjoy the rich musical flavour of Sudan with the release of Peace Festival , vol 1.

In the first album of a three-volume set, Miraya FM brings you Sudanese talent, many of whom are unknown beyond the borders of this country long wracked by civil wars.

In the summer of 2006, Miraya FM gathered 25 Sudanese singers and music groups hailing from all over

the country into a studio in Omdurman, Khartoum for a month-long marathon recording session.

Miraya FM commissioned these artists to compose songs for peace to start an archive of Sudanese music for the post-conflict era.

All of these songs drew on traditional melodies and rhythms representing the incredible diversity

of the people who inhabit Africa's largest country.

In this collection you will hear the moody pentatonic notes of Sudan's north, energetic dance beats from the south, the throaty calls of Beja musicians in the east, the undulating baselines of the Darfurian west and much more…

Songs are sung in regional dialects as well as in Arabic and English.

Many of the artists in this collection are recorded for the first time.