Caedmon's Call visit India, Ecuador and Brazil prior to new album.

AMERICAN folk pop group Caedmon's Call are to release a world music studio album in autumn 2004 after a month of visits to India, Ecuador and Brazil. Explained Caedmon's lead vocalist Cliff Young, "With our fall release we're going into a time where I hope there could be whole communities in India and Brazil and Ecuador that will say, 'This CD changed my whole village.'" The band sought to capture the stories of these people by visiting them in person and writing songs based on their experiences. During their recent trip to India, the band not only gathered song material for the October slated release, members also performed puppet shows for village children, led worship for crowds of more than 8,000 and wandered through the poorest of living conditions to touch the hands of the people. The group worked with two organisations offering aid to India: Peace Gospel Ministries and the Dalit Freedom network - a ministry to the country's lowest caste of people - along with Compassion International in Ecuador and Brazil.