One minute excerpt from our new song “Doomsday Survival Kit” coming soon on an Album at Akuphone!įrom a concert at Metro Al Madina in Beirut last July Motivated by this project, Martin Jay joined the label to contribute to its development. Far from supporting a romantic or fetishist vision of extra-Western music, the label aims at linking these productions to their historical and political contexts, placing them back in the social and cultural conditions in which they emerged. In an archaeology-like approach, his goal is to put into the limelight the work of artists – musicians and singers – unknown to the general public or fallen into oblivion in the so-called “Western countries”. He launched Akuphone in an “archiving” spirit, drawn by a desire to “explore the world through music”. Fabrice Géry, founder of the label, is a music enthusiast and collector, who worked as a record dealer for many years. Each project starts with the restoration of original sound recordings and sleeves, to which a thorough documenting work is added: lyrics transcription and translation, research on the artist’s biography as well as the historical and political context of the original release. The catalogue is available in vinyl, CD, as well as digital formats. Akuphone’s productions are limited editions that range from new extended releases of vinyl records to creating original best of albums of artists and thematic compilations, as well as productions of today’s artists. From the 1940’s to the 90’s, from 78-rpm microgroove to cassette tapes, Akuphone handles the whole range of audio broadcasting formats. ![]() ![]() Created by Fabrice Géry (aka Cheb Gero), this independent name is dedicated essentially to rare global Pop & Folk Music. Launched in 2015, AKUPHONE is a French record label based in Paris. PRAED will release their new album “doomsday survival kit” on AKUPHONE in January 2019 as vinyl, CD and digital download. The hypnotizing psychedelic effect that was embedded in this genre also triggered thoughts around its similarity to other popular music in the world that employ forms of sonic delirium, such as free jazz and psychedelic rock. Through the research it conducted, the band began to discover a strong cultural connection between “Shaabi” sounds and the “Mouled” music that is played in religious trance ceremonies. Since its inception, Praed has shown a very keen interest in this music as a medium that reflects Egyptian society’s complicated fabric. The band’s body of work mainly explores the terrain of Arabic popular music (“Shaabi”) and its interconnectedness with other psychedelic and hypnotic musical genres in the world, such as free jazz, space jazz, and psychedelic rock among others. PRAED performs also under the name PRAED PLUS as a big band together with Axel Dörner, Johannes Bauer, Hans Koch and Stephane Rives. The band consists of two regular members: Raed Yassin playing keyboards, laptop, electronics and vocals and Paed Conca on clarinet, electric bass, and electronics. Through these endeavors, the band has created a large global network with other renowned musicians as musical collaborators. ![]() Since then, the band has frequented numerous international music festivals and toured intensively world-wide, spanning Japan, Europe and Canada. ![]() In the same year, the band made its first public appearance in Al Maslakh festival in Switzerland, immediately followed by a concert at the Irtijal festival in Beirut. Founded by Raed Yassin and Paed Conca in 2006, “Praed” is a band whose musical oeuvre can be described as a mixture of Arabic popular music, free jazz, and electronics.
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