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​Harri Kakoulli. Beyond Beautiful
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!
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
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.