MUMBAI: Chennai based music label and high-end audio-visual production house EarthSync has announced that their flagship product Laya Project will be in stores across India on 3 July 2008. EarthSync is committed to nurturing folk, tribal and native music from Asia, and bringing this music to a global audience by bringing together the traditional and the contemporary from around the world.

Major retail chains like Planet M, Landmark, Music World, Crossword and Odyssey will all be carrying the 3 different product formats: a) the deluxe box set consisting of the 68-minute documentary DVD and 2 CDs, b) the DVD only, and c) the 2 CDs only.

For Laya Project, the international EarthSync team travelled for two years through the folk communities in the 2004 tsunami-affected regions of Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar and India. The musicians are the people of coastal and surrounding communities recorded on-location; the recordings were then mastered and enhanced at Clementine Studios, EarthSync's in-house recording studio.Says EarthSync CEO Sonya Mazumdar, "Laya Project has been gaining appreciation in many countries around the world, doing well in terms of reviews, unit sales, awards and accolades, yet it fills us with special pride to be releasing it here in India."

The Laya Project is a personal and collective musical tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, a celebration of the spirit of sound. The production creates a composition that mixes and enhances the original recordings, and embarks on an inspirational visual and musical journey crossing borders, while preserving the music of the people. Some of the performances are rare, and are documented for the first time in this production.