Juno Reactor at City Sounds: Ben Watkins and “The Golden Sun Of The Great East” at Eter

City Sounds is honoured to invite you to a concert by international line-up Juno Reactor. Known to wider audiences through numerous film scores, Ben Watkins's band will promote their latest album, “The Golden Sun Of The Great East”, at Wrocław's Eter on 8 March.

Juno Reactor is a band founded in London by Ben Watkins in 1990. Its principal aim is to combine instrumental, electronic and symphonic music, often working with exotic vocals and a choir.

The group are known for colourful concert performances featuring live contributions from collaborating bands and instrumentalists. The roster of musicians working with them is fluid and continually changing. They include percussionist Mabi Thobejane, South African group Amampondo, Eduardo Niebla, Steve Stevens, Greg Ellis, Yaz Alexander, Ghetto Priest and Yasmin Levy.

The band's current members are Ben Watkins, Budgie (drums), Sugizo (Guitar – Japan), Mali Mazal (Dancer – Percussionist – Israel), Hamsika Iyer (Singer – India), Amir Haddad (Guitar – Spain) and Kostas (Percussion – Greece).

The band's music combines electronic, instrumental and symphonic music, often working with a choir and exotic vocals. The group brings genres such as psychedelic and goa trance together with world music and classical music.

In 1993, after releasing the first album, “Transmissions”, Juno Reactor became a role model and authority for other artists creating electronic music in the goa trance genre.

After more than a decade of productive work, Juno Reactor have released seven studio albums and created or co-created brilliant soundtracks for numerous well-known films and series, including The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Brave Story, Mortal Kombat and Texhnolyze.

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