• country:
  Denmark
• style(s):
  Fusion Oriental
• label:
  united one rec
• artist submitted by:
  World Music Denmark

In an age of increasing globalisation and
cross-cultures, the world of music has not been untouched. It is now usual to find musicians incorporating styles and traditions from countries and cultures that are not their own.

In Europe, many groups play world music - sometimes described loosely as rhythmical music with inspiration from non-European cultures. However, oriental music is very rare even though immigrants from the Orient and the Middle East are the largest minorities in Europe.

Then out of Denmark came ORIENTAL MOOD - a group of seven men, most of them fair and unmistakably Danish, but impeccable classically trained musicians who have wowed audiences in Europe, Greenland, Pakistan, Malyasia, Egypt, Syria and throughout the Middle East.

Elements from musical traditions of Turkey, the Balkans, Kurdistan, Morocco, Egypt and India melt together with western music styles, creating ORIENTAL MOOD's own special world sound.

If you close your eyes while listening to this band on stage, you would be smack in the middle of the Middle East, smelling warm incense and swaying to music that could come out of the Arabian Nights.
Oriental Mood lineup october 2004:

Lars Bo Kujahn started as a jazz-fusion drummer, but soon took interest in Balkan and Middle Eastern music. He lived for many years with one leg in Copenhagen, the other in Cairo, where he learned Arabian drumming and to play the Arabian harp, the Qanoon. See also: Oriental Percussion.

Frank Juul is one of the few westerners who really learned to play the Indian tabla. He studied this art during a five years stay in Benares, India.

Jesper Løvdal plays the sax and clarinet. He is educated at the rhythmic consrevatory in Copenhagen.

Niels Lichtenberg is the bass-player of Oriental Mood and a specialist in Brazilian and Latin music.

Yasar Tas is the joker of Oriental Mood. He is a Turkish Kurd with a big passion for the saz, oud, zurna, may and percussion.

Nils Raae is the new keyboardplayer. He is a great musician with experience in worldfusion. He also plays the chromatic mouthharp with a deep soul.

Jan Andersen is the drummer with a very tight groove and long experience in pop/rock and funkmusic.

Links

• Oriental Mood Website