alchemists of sound,
shifting hearts like the desert sands.
Welcome to Karavan Sarai’s Electronic Press Kit
““Karavan Sarai’s music is thick, clear and fills a space without pressure but with pleasure like love it warms a room. To draw on the great traditions and bring the prayers of century’s into CoSM is a real blessing for us. I loved it. “
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- KARAVAN SARAI -
Live Mesmerizing Music of the Middle East & Silk Road
w/ Lush Electronics & Global Beats.
🎪 Karavan Sarai: A Caravan of Sonic Journeys
Karavan Sarai is a nomadic musical project with multiple immersive formats — each a unique “wagon” in the Caravan, offering distinct experiences that suit a wide range of venues, from large festivals to intimate sacred spaces.
🐫 The Main Caravan – Karavan Sarai
(Full Band or Duo)
Cinematic World Fusion featuring live vocals, oud, saz, and electronic soundscapes. A mystic journey through Silk Road cultures blending ancient instrumentation with modern sensibility.
🔥 Mystic Flame Sound Weavers
A deep sonic healing journey — lush ambient electronics, sacred percussion, celestial vocals, and Middle Eastern/Far Eastern instruments. Ideal for sound healing events, conscious festivals, and sacred music spaces.
🥁 Desert Pulse Ensemble
A rhythm-forward, intimate format featuring live ethnic instruments over trancey electronic percussion. Designed for movement-based events like Ecstatic Dance, small stage concerts, and immersive lounges.
Each “wagon” of Karavan Sarai carries a different flavor of the Silk Road — from cinematic stage shows to healing journeys and rhythm-driven dance sets.
Flexible, scalable, and soulful — choose the configuration that aligns with your space and audience.
🐫 The Main Caravan – Karavan Sarai
Band Statement Options for show
(Ecstatic Dance & Performing Arts formats)
1.) Live Mesmerizing Music | Middle East & Silk Road Sounds | Lush Electronics & Global Beats
( A transcendent journey of rhythm, melody, and mysticism)
2.) Middle Eastern & Silk Road Music | Modern Pulse & Ancient Vibes | Live Global Fusion & Beats
(Live instruments, lush electronics, and hypnotic global grooves.)
3.) Mystical Soundscapes | Ethnic Instruments & Electronic Rhythms | Sacred Fusion from East to West
(Immersive live performance with lush electronic soundscapes and global percussion)
4.) Sacred Sounds & Global Rhythms
(A live journey through Middle Eastern and Silk Road traditions—reimagined with lush electronics)
5.) Mystical Sound Journey | Silk Road Rhythms & Electro Alchemy | Live Global Fusion
6.) Mystical Sound Journey | Silk Road Rhythms & Electro Alchemy | Live Global Fusion
7.) Ancient Echoes | Mesmerizing Middle Eastern Melodies | Lush Electronics & Hypnotic Percussion
8.) Sacred Bass & Ethnic Vibes | Silk Road Soundscapes | Live Instruments & Global Electronica
Ecstatic Dance:
1.) Mystical Silk Road Ecstatic Dance | Journey to a Middle Eastern Realm | Lush Electronics & Global Beats
6.) Ecstatic Middle Eastern Sound | Lush Electronics & Global Beats | Move in Sacred Rhythm
5.) Ecstatic Dance Journey | Eclectic Eastern Melodies | Live Fusion with Global Bass & Beats
6.) Ancient Eastern Music | Ecstatic Dance Energy | Lush Electronica & Tribal Grooves
7.) Live Eclectic Middle Eastern Fusion | Ecstatic Dance Pulse | Lush Electronics & Percussive Beats
8.) Silk Road Electronica | Live Mystical Global Fusion | Ancient Melodies & Lush Electronics
9.) Middle Eastern Ecstatic Flow | Lush Live Electronica | Global Beats for the Dance Floor
A built to order for your event configuration options.
(Vids Below):
>Available with Dancer(s). Sufi Whirling, Belly Dance, Gypsy, Folkloric, Classical, Devotional and dances of N. Africa, Middle East, Balkan, Turkish to Persia & Indian.
>Full Egyptian Band. (w/ Egyptian gypsy master musician)
>Percussionist, Musicians.
Sufi Whirling workshops, Vocal workshop, Eastern devotional (Hindu Kirtan, Sufi, Jewish, Catholic gospel) acoustic song circles & sing alongs.
🎤 Festival/Gig Bio (Medium Length for Programs, Posters)
Karavan Sarai is a mesmerizing live music experience rooted in the mysticism of the Silk Road. Weaving Middle Eastern and Indian instruments with lush electronics and global beats, Karavan Sarai creates deep, hypnotic sound journeys that shift hearts like desert sands. This is sonic alchemy—where ancient melodies meet cinematic atmospheres and pulsing rhythms. Whether on a grand festival stage or in sacred spaces, Karavan Sarai forges ahead where the tracks end.
🔹 Short Bio (For Flyers & Quick Promo Use)
Live mesmerizing music of the Middle East & Silk Road fused with lush electronics and global beats. A deep, hypnotic journey of sonic alchemy.
📜 Full Bio (GIG/Festival Bookers)
Karavan Sarai offers a deeply immersive live music experience, blending the mysticism and musical traditions of the Silk Road—from the Middle East to India—with lush electronic soundscapes, global rhythms, and ecstatic trance elements. Ancient instruments such as oud and saz are layered with cinematic textures, sacred percussion, and ambient atmospheres to create a genre-defying sound.
Founded by international artist Narayan Sijan, Karavan Sarai is joined by vocalist and visionary Amber Renee in select formats. Together they invite audiences into a living ritual of rhythm, mysticism, and imagination. This is deep fusion—music that awakens the soul and moves the body.
All five Karavan Sarai albums have reached the Top 10 on the North American World Music Charts, with Torn in Lovenamed one of the Top 25 World Music Albums of 2020.
Karavan Sarai Founder Personal Bio:
Founder of Karavan Sarai composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist & vocalist Narayan Sijan lived on the Silk Road for 20+ years, learning & performing music with mystics, masters & locals. With a family heritage of mixed East & West culture, he creates a hybrid of musical storytelling from original & traditional melodies & beats. A mystical alchemists of sound, shifting hearts like the desert sands; Narayan takes one on a deep hypnotic mesmerizing journey to unlimited devotion.
Karavan Sarai: ‘Mystic Flame Sound Weavers’
Immersive Sonic Sound Healing from the Silk Road to the Soul
Mystic Flame Sound Weavers is a powerful live experience that blends ancient mysticism with deep vibrational sound healing. Created by international artists Karavan Sarai & Amber Renee, this meditative and dynamic immersive offering fuses Middle Eastern and Far East instruments with ambient electronic textures, sacred percussion, spiritual poetry and celestial vocals - igniting a journey of inner alchemy and soul awakening.
1.) Mystic Flame Sound Weavers | Immersive Sonic Healing | From the Silk Road to the Soul
2.) Karavan Sarai & Amber Renee | Mystic Flame Sound Weavers | Ancient Mysticism & Sonic Alchemy
3.) Silk Road Sound Healing | Celestial Vocals & Sacred Rhythms | A Journey of Inner Alchemy
4.) Mystic Flame Sound Weavers | Expanding Soundscapes of the Silk Road | Sacred Music & Sonic Transformation
5.) Mystical Global Sound Healing | Ambient Electronics & Ancient Instruments | Karavan Sarai & Amber Renee
🔹 Short Bio (For Flyers & Quick Promo Use)
Experience an immersive live journey of vibrational healing through ancient Middle Eastern and Asian instruments, lush electronics, sacred percussion, and celestial vocals.
Mystic Flame Sound Weavers is Karavan Sarai & Amber Renee’s sonic alchemy from the Silk Road to the Soul.
Karavan Sarai: ‘Desert Pulse Ensemble’
A soul-stirring evolution of Karavan Sarai - melding hypnotic electronic percussion with ethnic instruments from the East in a trance-infused nomadic sound journey.
Karavan Sarai: Desert Pulse Ensemble is a powerful live format blending hypnotic electronic percussion with ethnic instruments from the Middle East and Asia. Led by Narayan Sijan and Amber Renee, the group creates immersive nomadic soundscapes—combining oud, saz, flutes, vocals, and frame drums into a trance-infused ritual of rhythm and spirit. Ideal for festival stages, sacred gatherings, and movement spaces alike.
1.) Desert Pulse Ensemble | Hypnotic Electronic Percussion | Ethnic Instruments from East & Silk Road
2.) Karavan Sarai Reimagined | Deep Rhythms & Eastern Roots | Trance-Infused Global Fusion
3.) Desert Pulse Sound Journey | Oud, Saz, Frame Drums | Lush Electronics & Nomadic Atmospheres
4.) Silk Road Rhythms | Ethnic Trance & Cinematic Beats | A Living Ritual of Sound & Spirit
5.) East Meets Electronica | Live Global Fusion | Karavan Sarai: Desert Pulse Ensemble
📋 Gig/Festival Bio (Short Format)
Karavan Sarai: Desert Pulse Ensemble is a powerful live format blending hypnotic electronic percussion with ethnic instruments from the Middle East and Asia. Led by Narayan Sijan and Amber Renee, the group creates immersive nomadic soundscapes—combining oud, saz, flutes, vocals, and frame drums into a trance-infused ritual of rhythm and spirit. Ideal for festival stages, sacred gatherings, and movement spaces alike.
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✨Acclaimed Music:
The debut album, WOVEN LANDSCAPES (2015), reached number 6 on the World Music Charts (CMJ), while the follow-up, ‘Painted Sands’ (2018), peaked at number 4 with over ten weeks on the charts. (CMJ). TORN IN LOVE (2020) peaked at number 6 with over 12 weeks in the Top Ten World Music Charts (NACC) and was selected as #22 of the Best World Music Albums of 2020. THE MOONS WITHIN REACH (2022) a more ambient sounding album also was on the top ten World Music Charts and Chill Out Charts (NACC). New Album Released OCT. 8 2024: ‘‘MYSTICS, MASTERS, MADMEN, (EASTERN DEVOTIONAL MUSIC, VOL.1)’.
Performing at large festivals from Bali Spirit Festival in Indonesia, Spirit of Tengri in Kazakhstan and Lightning in a Bottle (LIB) in California to cultural art centers such as Makan, Cairo Jazz Club in Egypt and CoSM (Alex Grey) in New York plus resorts such as The Sanctuary in Thailand; Karavan Sarai makes for a riveting performance that engages audiences of any size. Ecstatic Dance sets have been an important development with our tour; from New York to North Carolina, Colorado to California, and festivals world wide.
This evocative visual and sonic journey carries listeners to a nighttime courtyard of a virtual Silk Road palace, the Karavan Sarai that gave the project its name.
Composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and vocalist Narayan Sijan (multi-ethnic heritage of Eastern Balkan to Moorish in Spain, Jewish Polish & Irish) lived on the Silk Road from 1994-2006, learning and performing music with mystics, masters, and locals. He creates musical storytelling from original compositions and traditional melodies. Karavan Sarai’s electronic music is created by two-time GRAMMY nominee producer and programmer Carmen Rizzo, whose credits range from A.R. Rahman, Seal to co-founding the world/electronic act Niyaz.
Mission
We believe art is a way of life. We risk everything to live and breath our sound every single day on our pilgrims journey. Our mission is to mystically compel our listeners to break free from social conformity and create differently. We give our fans a taste of the freedom we embody, thick and through. We do this by living our truth no matter what the road throws our way. We’re alchemists of sound, shifting hearts like the desert sands.
what is a KARAVAN SARAi ?
Along the Silk Road, I was always drawn to old karavan sarais (travellers’ inns or hubs) from India to Egypt and Turkey to Morocco during the years I lived there. These are real places that have existed for thousands of years. A place where weary travelers be it mystics, nomads, gypsys, kings & queens, camel traders, musicians, dancers, merchants and madmen alike would gather around the inner chambers fire of a Sarai. Karavan=Caravan (spelled in the Persian way w a K) and a Sarai is the palace where various cultures, religions, beliefs would meet around the fires at night telling tales of the world and sharing food, medicine, ways of life. Inside these hubs peace was the unspoken rule. Conflicts and difereance were left at the door. This was a place lets say: a singer from Egypt, drummer from India, oud player from Turkey, dancer from Persia, flutist from Mali, violinist from Serbia would co-create NEW art together in that moment. Often unable to speak each other’s language, they would communicate through music and dance. They often didn’t know each other’s songs, so they would jam and create new music together. The healing spirit of sound brought people together in love. That is the power that moved me to create the music project Karavan Sarai. This love cracked open civilization with its progressive approach that brought on many new inventions and ideas.
After a night around the fire with inspiration, joy, healing and creativity, each soul would take that seed of potential in their own direction the next morning, as each set off in different directions. This is a Karavan Sarai and that is what inspired me as I lived and visited these sites for over 20+ years in total since 1993 (and yes Karavan Sarais still exist today, in remodeled shops, hotels, ruins or restored historical sites).
This was the vision I had of creating the band Karavan Sarai; to create ethnic music of the ancient cultures, songs & global rhythms of the Middle East and Silk Road regions fused with lush modern electronics, beats and my own original compositions. Where the old generation and the new generation can find a common thread of musical enjoyment together. To create an atmosphere of the eastern Silk Road casbah tent in the oasis. To create this oasis in every show, venue, community and each heart. We all take this mystical soundscape journey and the friends we gather from this container of creation and ripple it out to the world to feel. To make a better world one moment at a time, like a water spring, always fresh and ever-flowing, forever… Co-creating together and sharing it to all…. Lets co-create a Karavan Sarai at your venue…
I am forever in awe and humbled by the meditative power of music and its celebrative, healing, and mystical properties. I want to bring listeners around that same fire, to hear the web for themselves.
Greetings family & friends,
You’ll find all you require in our EPK to book Karavan Sarai for your festival, venue, private event or retreat. We’re rugged and ready to blast your audience with a powerful immersion into our alchemical sound. This is a rare and transformative experience of true mysticism your community will never forget. People are counting on you to deliver an experience of pure inner freedom from the mundane of everyday life now more than ever. If you’ve connected with us on this page then we trust our mission is aligned.
““Contemporary spiritual world-music of the highest caliber. Incredible production fused with masterful playing. And the tantric interplay of dancer and musician is stunning. The performance exceeded our already high expectations of what Karavan Sarai would bring to the festival.””
Karavan Sarai Configurations
Karavan Sarai (solo act) with Dancers
Karavan Sarai-(Egyptian Full Band & Sufi Whirling dance) configuration
Karavan Sarai live in Egypt with Band & Dancer
Karavan Sarai Ecstatic Dance with Sufi Whirlng & Workshops
22nd Best World Music Album of 2020 in N. America
Critically acclaimed 12 weeks in the Top Ten World Music Charts.
# 4 World Music Charts
We’re honored that Painted Sand’s spent 10 weeks in the Top 10 World Music Charts, peaking at #4
#10 World Music Charts
Expanding our sound into ambient soundscapes.
#6 World Music Charts
Woven Sands alchemized the World Music Charts, peaking at #6.
““This is contemporary spiritual world-music of the highest caliber. Incredible production fused with masterful playing. And the tantric interplay of dancer and musician is stunning. The performance exceeded our already high expectations of what Karavan Sarai would bring to the festival.”
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““Karavan Sarai’s music is thick, clear and fills a space without pressure but with pleasure like love it warms a room. To draw on the great traditions and bring the prayers of century’s into Cosm is a real blessing for us. I loved it.”
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““We had the absolute pleasure of hosting Karavan Sarai at the Sanctuary Koh Phangan March 2019. Incredible, fantastic, tantalising are just three words i’d use in describing the performance :) the best !”
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““Evocative, easily accessible music which will be of interest to seasoned world music listeners as well as newcomers.”
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““A sensual assault; a tapestry of music and movement that is as restless and seeking as the travelers it evokes.”
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““Contemporary sonic edge, without compromising the integrity of the traditions they represent.”
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Contact
Narayan Sijan
Email: karavansaraimusic@hotmail.com
WhatsApp & Cell Phone: (+1) 575-252-3167
Google Number: 530-268-5268
Website: www.karavansaraimusic.com
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