#SoundsOfSociety is a project to document and present the sounds of today. It is a step towards a genre-free, no-rules, and an all-inclusive approach to presenting music-making and its associated performing arts.
Each episode is carefully curated, and in most cases is very spontaneous.
Presented by - Society Tea
Produced by - Urban Beat Project
Curated by - Laiq Qureshi
In this episode | Wind Blows Where It Wants
Lyrics - Mohamed Alnuma
Composition - Mohamed Alnuma
In this episode, we feature a beautiful blend of Indo-Mediterranean music & poetry. This is the story of the connection of 3 musicians who met for the first time here on the sets of Sounds of Society.
While originally written by Mohamed, he says, โIt's the song of the four elements, extracted from their conventional sense. Where wind is the immanence of โwhat isโ. Water is the โprocessโ. Fire is what is given to โsenseโ. Earth is our โfinal destinationโ.โ
Mohamed presents a quality of existential philosophy in his brand of Franco-Iraqi songwriting, which is then elevated and added to by Dilshad Khan and Raul Sengupta, blending in the sounds of Indian Classical music, that comes from the deeper understanding of their own traditions, and cultural.
This is World Music as itโs finest.
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Mohamed Alnuma
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Mohamed Alnuma (a Franco-Iraqi Oud player and singer) is a Nomadic artist, a career that unfolds itself as a creative process based on a double articulation: Bringing the elsewhere to "here and now", taking the "here and now" to the elsewhere.
Beautiful musicians from various parts of the world have been gathered to embrace music and happiness along the way. "Al safa quartet " was formed in Germany with Syrians and Turkishโs musicians. In France "Pechรชurs de perles". In Turkey "Hawa, the first wind" a project of bringing togther musicians from Turkey, Iran and India.
In Greece "Roubayyat quartet", In Israel "Jalajil", In India "Hawa, time caravan" , all with various local and abroad musicians. Apart from the strictly musical projects, he co-founded with his wife Daniell Alnuma (dancer and choreographer), the Company Orientations in which he collaborate as musician and as an artistic director.
Many shows where created around the world, such as "Afikna" in Israel Jerusalem festival, "Nostalgia" in France and Africa, "The rite of spring" in France and India.....etc.
https://www.facebook.com/mohamed.alnuma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3XkD38p3DI
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Dilshad Khan
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Dilshad Khan born in 1983 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. He belongs to the Sikar Gharana of music which has given several stalwarts to Indian classical music, like the legendary Padma Bhushan Ustad Sultan Khan. He is the ninth generation to take up Sarangi. His great grandfather Ustad Azim Khan was a court musician at Sikar in Rajasthan.
He began his training at the age of 6 in music from his grandfather Ustad Gulab Khan Sahab and later he started learning sarangi from his legendary uncle Padma Bhushan Ustad Sultan Khan Sahab, who is one of the most renowned sarangi players and Vocalists from India.
Apart from his solo performances he has had the honour to perform with artists like Ustad Zakir Hussain, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Trilok Gurtu, Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pt. Ajay Pohankar, Pt. Ajay Chakrabarty, Sivamani and many more.
https://www.facebook.com/ustaddilshadkhan
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Raul Sengupta
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Born to an Indian father and a German mother, Raul grew up in a household that was always bubbling with crossover sounds that were as varied as Rabindrasangeet and Western Classical music. Having discovered his love for music at the age of 6, his journey into the same began with the drums at the Academy of Music in Germany. Since then he has travelled along varied and multicultural paths that have traversed the percussive traditions of Africa, Latin America and the Orient. In a return to his musical and cultural roots, he then travelled to Kolkata where he studied tabla under the guidance of Maestro Shankar Ghosh, one of Indiaโs most eminent tabla players. He has toured worldwide with Prem Joshua, but also with artists like Ashraf Sharif Khan, Mahmood Sabri, Nassir Shamma, Renato Rozic, George Bishop, Archaic Pop Stuff, Amritan, Piirpauke.
https://www.facebook.com/raul.sengupta
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Video Credits
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Producer: Laiq Qureshi
Director: Sadaf Javan
DoP: Sadaf Javan, Richard
Production Assistant: Jayashree Ojha
Photography: Jayashree Ojha
Post Production: Seen Productions (https://www.seenproductions.ie/)
Mixing and Mastering: Ashyar Balsara
Recording Engineer: Laiq Qureshi
Location: Jambudvipa Eco Resort, Goa
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