Louder Than The Music

Fresh from selling over 7500 copies of his last album 'Nachoonga' world wide, internationally celebrated Indian singer-songwriter, musician and producer Sheldon Bangera is back with new album 'Raaja Hai Mahaan' released this week.

His first album released through Integrity Music, 'Raaja Hai Mahaan' documents both Sheldon’s personal spiritual life and also that of the Indian church in 2015.

Sheldon says, "This album is a reflection of many seasons with God, some of them we've been singing for the last 5 - 7 years. They mark personal experiences and reflections of what God is doing with the church. They are songs of hope and I feel like the whole aesthetic of it will be a blessing to many, even people who don't understand or speak Hindi."

Sonically an 'east meets west' vista, blending traditional Indian sounds with a western worship flavour, 'Raaja Hai Mahaan' is a celebration of cultural diversity at its finest. Inspired by a good friend in England, Sheldon decided to write what he describes as a "new part of God’s bigger picture of the east meeting the west in worship."

Bringing these two worlds together through songs on 'Raaja Hai Mahaan', the album has given a western audience the chance to glimpse an interesting and exciting perspective on what God is doing in Sheldon’s native home country, India. He elaborates, "COLOUR! It is beautiful. In the middle of the chaos and brokenness, we see the compassion of a great and mighty God. Culturally, there is a fresh wave of Indian-ness and the belongingness and awareness of being Indian is being felt like never before."