Homegrown talent Xavier Rudd returns this April with his outstanding sixth studio album ‘Koonyum Sun’. Recorded in Byron Bay with new band members Tio Moloantoa (bass) and Andile Nqubezelo (percussion), Rudd has come up with the most impressive album of his career.

From 2002’s To Let, his first studio album, through to 2007’s White Moth, Rudd gradually refined his globally-influenced collage of world music – a matchless mixture of reggae, funk, blues, folk, and nearly every other sort of song with the ability to stimulate people’s spirits. With 2008’s Dark Shades of Blue, though, the world was welcomed into a darker, more somber side of Rudd’s music.

KOONYUM SUN marks a fresh, new musical and spiritual awakening for Rudd. Though the trio has been performing together for many months, Koonyum Sun is their first collaborative collection of songs – a triangle of influence that carries a piece of each individual member, yet keeps them all connected. There’s also more vocal variation, with colourful harmonies in several different languages soaring atop the music.