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video to John Farah's "Healings" (track 11 on Creation) created by Eamon MacMahon
On CREATION:
"Toronto composer/keyboardist John
Kameel Farah crosses genres and
breaks down traditional boundaries with
this electronic-inspired invention.
He plans and improvises in equal
measure. He interweaves acoustic and synthetic.
He is equally
comfortable on the dance floors of the 16th and 21st centuries.
Here,
in 21 seamless tracks, Farah takes us on an entrancing,
beat-loop-powered
tour of our interior cultural-musical psyche. My two
favourite tracks
(the nine-minute "Fantasie and Toccata") introduce the
music of William Byrd
to the synthesizer and sequencer. Long live the
mash-up."
-John Terauds, TORONTO STAR, July 27, 2006, (rating: 3.5/4 stars)
JOHN KAMEEL FARAH Creation (independent)
Rating: NNNN
"Ideally, all musicians' influences would be as diverse as the sonic
world John Kameel Farah inhabits. It can be tough trying to combine
your various loves into a sound that actually makes sense, and most
artists choose to focus on one style at a time. When someone actually
combines the elements of their musical history without making them
sound like a bunch of empty references, the results are genuinely
exciting. A skilled classically trained piano player, Farah also
dabbles in modern improvised music, as well as dance and experimental
electronic music. This isn't the type of crossover stuff that's going
to be rocking dance floors any time soon, but he links his various
ideas and tangents in many ways like a DJ set, with interludes joining
the tracks and a real sense of a journey emerging over the album's
length."
-Benjamin Boles, NOW
Magazine,
Toronto, Sept. 21, 2006
"...a trance-inducing landscape inspired by the vast history of music,
from 16th-century English pavanes, to
techno, to traditional Arab influences.
The interaction of looped beats and
repeating sound samples
has the power to pull us out of
ourselves - a measure of great music...
To do this with sounds... that
appeal
to club kids and new music fans equally is a major achievement."
J.Terauds, TORONTO STAR, Mar 9, 2006
Track Listings
connecting interludes marked
* CD runtime: 64:37
1 thought momentum
(piano-organ-electronics-d'n'b)
05:51
2 kozmik egg
(imagine gates at center of the universe)
04:21
3 heirophant
(solo
piano)* 00:47
4-5 fantasie and toccata
(harpsichord prelude-breakbeat)
03:38, 05:32
6 descendit
(strange harmonic sequence-IDM)
04:20
7 day of rage
(synth-IDM-breakcore)
03:14
8 lute-mind*
00:52
9 hyacinth-mind*
03:21
10 mind-descension*
00:22
11 healings
(round bass
sculpture) 03:34
12 vibrations of ba’al
(2 detuned rhodes-IDM)
03:29
13 rage-lute*
00:32
14 the luteniste
(lute/frame drum echo collage)
05:18
15 kosmik-dome*
(harpsichord-electronic improvisation)
01:07
16 dome ceiling
(massive electronic building forms)
03:22
17 gentlestars
(slow techno) 03:52
18 metamorphosis
(piano-rhodes-synth-ambient)
06:08
19 memory of being an infant
(ambient piano soundscape)
04:28