Kicking off my week with one thing from my psychedelic assortment – music I hardly ever share on Stereofox, however the type of sound that reaches for the inside corners of your soul to create unmatched mind-altering experiences.
As we speak we discover the artwork of Bijan Cheminari (percussion), Redi Hasa (cello, labored with Ludovico Einaudi and Robert Plant), and Rami Khalife (piano) – artists who’ve confirmed their genius earlier than coming collectively to kind L’Antidote. With roots in Albania, Lebanon, and Iran, the trio is creating a novel and deeply evocative sound that may heal any distressed soul on the market.
The sound of L’Antidote additionally attracts inspiration from Center Japanese, Balkan, and Mediterranean folklore, one thing you will shortly decide up whereas spacing out to “Pomegranate” – the primary single of their extremely anticipated upcoming debut album scheduled for launch later this 12 months. This track defies the same old psychedelic components of sprawling 8-10+ minute journeys, as an alternative delivering a masterfully crafted expertise in beneath 5 minutes. It seamlessly unfolds with an intricate tapestry of mesmerizing melodies and hypnotic rhythms, proving that brevity could be simply as immersive.
Rami shares, “It’s at all times very pleasurable and thrilling to fulfill individuals who, not directly, resemble you – who share the identical imaginative and prescient, the identical freedom of their expression, boundless limits to our creativity.
That is what it’s all about: it’s about power, it’s concerning the second, and, if I’ll say, it’s about breaking the boundaries. This strategy permits us to essentially begin from improvisation, then it turns into a form of a standard language, even supposing we come from completely different backgrounds and we converse completely different languages.
With the ability to journey by such quite a lot of feelings and musical adventures, is de facto what I search for. Taking part in on this trio is mostly a nice supply of inspiration, and I hope we are able to carry this dream to the viewers within the close to future.”
