Los Angeles, CA – February 2, 2026 – Following the streaming success of their ambient cat-purr project Purrfection 44, which was editorially playlisted on Spotify, Apple Music, and Pandora, Sudama Mark Kennedy and Joss Jaffe return with “Super Pod,” the first single from their forthcoming album Whale Dreaming, out February 16.
Built around the playful, high-frequency calls of dolphins, “Super Pod” blends authentic marine mammal vocalizations with an intimate global ensemble to create a buoyant soundscape for relaxation, yoga, meditation, and gentle focus. Instruments on the track include ngoni African harp, shakuhachi flute, and Indian tabla, flowing together with spacious ambient textures and ASMR-adjacent details that highlight the dolphins as the lead “singers.”
“After living inside the purrs of my cat Nunu on Purrfection 44, it felt natural to listen even more deeply to the ocean,” says Sudama Mark Kennedy, a musician, poet, and healer whose work centers on sound as a vehicle for joy and peace. “On ‘Super Pod’ the dolphins really guide us; the human instruments are there to follow, support, and celebrate their exuberant songs.”
Billboard Top 10 New Age artist Joss Jaffe, who brings tabla, ngoni, and expansive ambient production to the track, adds, “We wanted ‘Super Pod’ to feel happy and uplifting yet still soothing enough for a massage room, a slow-flow yoga class, or a long exhale after a busy day.”
Slated as the first taste of the full Whale Dreaming project, “Super Pod” introduces the album’s core concept: a deep-listening, oceanic journey where whales and dolphins are treated as ancient teachers and primary voices. Across the album, real recordings of belugas, humpbacks, blue whales, orcas, and dolphins are interwoven with sitar, shakuhachi, didjeridu, ngoni, guitar, bass, tablas, zither, and subtle sound design, creating a meditative world that supports spa environments, energy work, breathwork, and contemplative listening.
“Superpod” Single & Whale Dreaming Key Details
- Artist: Sudama Mark Kennedy & Joss Jaffe
- Single Title: “Super Pod” (featuring dolphin vocalizations)
- Single Release Date: Out now as lead track from Whale Dreaming (campaign dates: this Single – February 2; full album – February 16)
- Album Title: Whale Dreaming – Sudama’s twelfth album
- Core Sounds: Dolphins on “Super Pod”; elsewhere whales and dolphins (belugas, humpbacks, blue whales, orcas, fins, blended pods)
- Primary Instruments on “Super Pod”: Ngoni African harp, shakuhachi flute, Indian tabla, spacious ambient textures
- Vibe / Keywords: ASMR, happy, relaxation, peace, world, yoga
- For Fans Of: New age, ambient, sound healing, world devotional music, yoga and spa playlists
Whale Dreaming as a whole was recorded as a kind of underwater raga with Sudama’s sitar, shakuhachi, and didjeridu and Jaffe’s ngoni and tabla carefully arranged around the marine mammal recordings rather than playing over them. The result is a gentle, flowing sound world designed to entrain listeners toward stillness, emotional release, and subtle transformation.
Call to Action
“Super Pod” is available on major digital platforms including Apple Music, Spotify, and Bandcamp, arriving February 2, with the full Whale Dreaming album releasing February 16. Listeners are encouraged to add “Superpod” to their relaxation, study, yoga, sleep, and sound-healing playlists, and editors, curators, and wellness professionals are invited to feature the track in ASMR, nature, world, and meditation collections.
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About Sudama Mark Kennedy
Sudama Mark Kennedy is a musician, poet, and healer whose twelve albums span kirtan, folk jazz, spoken-word, world jazz funk, and meditative soundscapes, all unified by a focus on healing-intentioned music that brings joy and peace to the listener. He holds a BA in Creative Writing from Princeton and an MA in Shamanism and South Asian Religion from UC Santa Barbara, and has spent three decades pioneering energy medicine and sound healing as professional modalities. His viral cat-purr raga Purrfection 44 (The Meow Mix) has garnered hundreds of thousands of streams and editorial playlisting on major platforms.
About Joss Jaffe
Joss Jaffe is a Billboard Top 10 New Age artist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work in meditation, world, and devotional music. On Whale Dreaming he contributes tabla, ngoni African harp, and spacious ambient production, helping bridge authentic nature recordings with contemporary wellness and world-music aesthetics.
To listen to Whale Dreaming please go to https://soundcloud.com/artizen-records/sets/whale-dreaming/s-jP5TXA6oBUp (press only, no public sharing).