Drag City is pleased to reintroduce the sound of Suarasama to the world. »Fajara Di Atas Away« was first released by Radio France Internationale (RFI) in 1998 (but never commercially distributed, as there were only a few hundred copies manufactured for radio broadcast), and the title track appeared on a Smithsonian Folkways compilation in 2000.

Suarasama is a group of many members, mostly ethno-musicological musicians. Founded in 1995 by Irwansyah Harahap and Rithaony Hutajulu, they are based in Medan City in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Suarasama plays contemporary music, exploring conceptually or instrumentally the sounds of African, Middle Eastern, Indian, Sufi Pakistani, Eastern European and Southeast Asian and particularly Sumatran traditions. Arranging this diversity of sounds and instrumentation, Suarasama come up with more than the sum of their parts; music that mitigates the absurd generalization in the name "world music" with an organic approach.