INSTRUMENTS AND MUSICIANS
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DISCOGRAPHY
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SAAZ AND VOICE (Nazar - Kurdistan -
Iraq) : this is an Oriental lute with strings producing
a very open and distinctive sound. Some keys are at the interval
of a fourth of tone according to the tradition of a large region that
includes the Middle East and part of the Mediterranean. The
tunes that Nazar sings and plays are very ancient but sound
extremely lively even to our modern ears.
KEYBOARDS (Maurizio Dami - Firenze - Italy): they
represent the “primordial soup”, the sound of
“reality as it is”, unaffected by history and culture.
They provide the “glue” and create the environment where tunes can swim like
fish in the water.
KEYBOARDS and VOCAL (Smail Kouider Aissa, Algeria) : They
represent the dialogue amongst different Mediterranean cultures
and the gateway to the Arab world. Smail comes from Algerian Rai.
TABLAS ( Arup Kanti Das, Rashmi v.
Bhatt, India): the
most typical and universally famous Indian percussions need no
further presentation. Due to their precise tuning they are not
only rhythmic but also harmonic instruments.
Daf, darbouca, Jembč
(Paolo Casu - Italia)
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The rhythmic colours of Africa
and the Middle East.
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 Kurdistani
CNI 1998
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 The
Third Planet
CNI 1999
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 Melt
in Time
Hot Elephant Music 2003
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The Third Planet of the solar
system is the Earth. Starting from the name we chose for our
band, we perceive music as a way to communicate with
different cultures to favour a better and deeper understanding of
human nature.
No rigid division line has ever been drawn to separate the music
regions of the world.
India, the Middle East and Europe, despite their considerably
different music traditions, do share the same roots: this is
something that clearly emerges whenever we listen to very ancient
melodies that sound stunningly mode
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The world must not be perceived as made up of watertight
compartments.
Peoples of the world have been influencing each otherr from time
immemorial and their traditions reflect such influences. Today
there's a lot of concern about the diffusion of anglo-saxon music
and the risk of cultural standardization it brings about, as a
sort of side-effect of globalization. This is a rather arrogant
view. The alledged supremacy of the Western culture (if it ever exists) won't be eternal, as
nothing eternal has ever appeared in this world. If Western
music is at present affecting Eastern music, we'll
eventually get a feed-back from it and that will in turn
affect our music.. This is simply part of the process of
evolution.
That's why we dislike the term "contamination"
and would rather think of music as a "development
process". and of ourselves as
world musicians that draw on their different traditions to
develop a new and modern form of art.
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