Laraaji is a New York City-based musician, mystic, and laughter-meditation practitioner whose decades-long work conveys a spiritual message. After working the nightclub circuit as a stand-up comedian, he turned to playing music on the streets in the ‘70s, improvising trance-inducing jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. Brian Eno famously encountered him busking in Washington Square Park, dropping a note that led to their seminal collaboration Ambient 3: Day of Radiance. Amassing a catalog of more than 50 albums, he has basked in a recent renaissance via new and reissued recordings on Numero Group, Leaving, and All Saints, with flutist André 3000 citing him as a major influence on New Blue Sun.