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Harri Kakoulli
Harri Kakoulli
Harri Kakoulli . . . . Beyond beautiful. . . Musician, Percussionist, Writer, Arranger, Composer, Producer & Mixer, World Music, DJ, Multi-Instrumentalist, Re-mixing, Film, TV and Documentary Music Harri Kakoulli has been involved in writing, producing & mixing world music since the mid-eighties. He's worked as an artist writing &; producing his own work, building a formidable reputation as one of the world's leading producers of world music and gathering great reviews over the years. He's recorded collaborations with many musicians and top world music artists - produced, mixed & recorded tracks, and worked with artists such as Maxi Priest, Jocelyn Brown, King Sunny Ade, Natasha Atlas, Talvin Singh, Jah Wobble, Aki Nawaz (Fundamental), Joana Lewie, Ukrainians, Joi, The Wedding Present, Oliver Cheatham, Andy Weatharal, Tall Paul, Youth, Imagination, The Only Ones, Squeeze, The Late Malcolm McLaren, The Late Smiley Culture, The late Freddie Mackey, The Late Merchant, Carl Douglas, Sandra Cross, Eric Donaldson, Asher Senator, and many others. Harri has been involved in writing, producing &; mixing world music since the mid-eighties. He has worked as an artist, writing &; producing his own work. He's now built a formidable reputation as one of the world's leading producers of world music. He has over the years gathered great reviews. Harri produced albums Fuse 1 and Fuse 2 and recorded tracks as an artist, producer, engineer and writer under the name Loca with Natasha Atlas for legendary world music label Nation Records. He has recorded collaborations with many of the top world music artists. Harri has produced mixed &; recorded tracks for the Legendary King Sunny Ade, Talvin Singh, Natasha Atlas, Aki Nawaz (Fundermental), and The Ukrainians. The sound Harri Kakoulli creates has made him one of the world's leading and sought after producers of world music, and as an artist in his own right collaborating with many other artists to create music that one cannot help but be swept up by. I listened to Harri Kakoulli’s Incredible Music...Wow! His compositions are clear, mysterious, piercing to the soul, intense, passionate and seductive .... Listening to his music made every muscle in my body move. My feet could not stop dancing and my mind was racing with thoughts of being able to choreograph a Flamenco dance to one of his pieces. ~ Harri Kakoulli has the soul of a dancer as his music has the ability to let people see the musical notes dancing with their ears, OLE! Love what Harri Kakoulli does! Weaving with music sounds & voices are amazing...intimate, atmospheric, breathing the essence... I'm taken away to another place Beautiful! Awesome vibe! Harri Kakoulli’s music takes me to another world where cigars and fine scotch are everywhere! It is not often that I come across, or someone so gracefully crosses my path with such a sound that it leaves me speechless Brilliant atmospheres here, something of a discovery indeed, ethereal, entrancing… take a walk on the Byzantine side Harri Kakoulli is a true genius in the field of ambient music! Harri Kakoulli is a special musician: His "vision", deep and fine Soulful music with no boundaries. Absolutely beautiful You would never guess that Harri Kakoulli got his start as the bass player for Squeeze. Instead, you might guess that he was a roadie for African Head Charge on their Finnish tour, or that he'd spent his early years sitting in with the Bombay Dub Orchestra. Harri Kakoulli’s music brings together a broad spectrum of musical traditions -- sacred choral music, keening solo plain chants, Middle Eastern percussion, African rhythms, house, and Electronica -- and blends them into something that sounds both ancient and completely new. He takes relentless (but not overaggressive) percussion of the type one might hear on a Muslimgauze album, and pairs it with the kind of modal vocals one might hear from Dead Can Dance. A fusing of polyphonic choral singing with quiet Eastern percussion to absolutely gorgeous effect; throughout there’s something just slightly creepy tugging at the underside of Harri kakoulli’s beautiful music, and the effect is really quite stunning. What can I say? Absolutely beautiful. Harri's music paints pictures, mostly landscapes, as if I'm traveling through the wilderness, through nature, even outer space sometimes! Some tracks have a medieval feel to them, as if an ancient ritual is being performed. They make me feel relaxed, at peace; in harmony...I feel part of a bigger world when I'm listening to Harri's music. Harri Kakoulli has been around a long time. He was the former bass man for UK mod band Squeeze, and for the last 15 years been a largely unnoticed but significant contributor to the world fusion scene in the UK. He has worked as a producer for Nation Records, Bar De Lune, Park Lane Recordings and many other world fusion artists and labels. His new solo work reveals his musical genius
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