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- artist:Kabul-Workshop
- featured artist:Francesco Russo, Khaled Arman, Ikram Khan, Jaffar Khan, MAssoud Raonaq
- country:Afghanistan
- release year:2001
- style(s): Global Fusion Indian
- formats:
- CD (Compact Disc)
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- label:Sound of World
Heavily influenced by afghan and indian
music, the electro-world of KabulWorkshop
differentiates itself from the electro-asian
scene by its originality and the quality of its
compositions. Kabul Workshop is a
workshop of musical research where the
resulting melodies are a direct expression of
the state of mind of their creators; a bridge
between their different cultures. When
Franceso and Khaled met in 1998, the
intellectual and spiritual complicity that
united them nourished their artistic
collaboration. The idea of creating a musical
research workshop was born naturally as a
way of expression to unite their different
ethnicity. The musical works resulting from
this first opus reveal themselves to be an
outlet of expression of the emotions felt as
exiles.
Much cultivated in the UK where it reflects
the state of interbreeding of british society,
the fusion of electronic and traditional music
doesn't always end up with exciting musical
projects, the southern sounds often used as
spice for background noise without much
relief. Coming from a classical background,
Khaled Arman and Francesco Russo
escaped, by definition, this sound
plunderers class : their origin (Afghan for the
former and Neapolitan for the latter), their
artistic journey, their curiosity nourish their
Kabul Workshop compositions, electronic
extension of the musicians projects.
Far from being the fruit of an odd fusion, the
tracks created by this sound research
workshop put technology at the service of
melody, of a composition work. The machine
carries the breath of traditional instruments
and voices ; flexible, it allows the pair to
extend their field of expression in an artistic
language thousands of years old. It is as a
barge which allows the listener to glide from
track to track. As Talvin Singh or Nitin
Sawhney, Khaled Arman and Francesco
Russo are some kind of boatmen.
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