Their emotionally-charged soundscapes combine ethereal vocals, acoustic instrumentation, field-recordings with occasional hard-edged brutalism. Although difficult to categorise, RAIJ’s music borrows from a wide canvass of sacred and world-music sources drawing comparisons with holy-minimalist classical composers Henryk Gorecki and Arvo Part. They gained an initial reputation for their radically immersive multi-media performances utilizing multiple projections, ritualized action, field recordings and live music. Their impromptu and often unannounced appearances in abandoned industrial spaces merged moments of sublime beauty with uncompromising and harrowing intensity. Founder members Les Hampson, Jon Egan and Paul Boyce later described RAIJ as “a project to interrupt the consumption of music.”