John Kameel Farah
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composer, pianist, electronic musician
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Member Since 9/6/2006 Band Website www.johnfarah.com Band Members John Kameel Farah, using piano, fender rhodes, harpsichord, organ, samples, computer progamming/sequencing, laptop, nord lead 3 synth, electronics
View John Farah's EPK Influences Schoenberg, Messiaen, Bach, Squarepusher, Terry Riley, Thelonius Monk, Xenakis, Aphex Twin, Jega, Beatles, Metallica, Fairouz, Um Khalsoum, Scriabin, William Byrd, Coil, Glenn Gould, renaissance & baroque keyboard music, Stockhausen, John Lennon, Ravel, Debussy, Celtic Frost, Slayer, Cryptic Slaughter, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, virginal & clavichord early keyboard music, medieval organum, ancient & natural history, astronomy Sounds Like Performing at WAVELENGTH, Toronto, April 2007, visuals by Eamon MacMahon
Performing GRAVITAS with Astronomer John Dubinski at the Great Pyramid of Cholula, at the National Conference of Astronomy, March 2007
Record Label Dross:tik Records Type of Label Indie
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Hour Magazine: stunning sonic, compositional and manual dexterity
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About John Kameel Farah
UNFOLDING CD RELEASE: SUNDAY, JULY 12th at the ELMOCAMBO! OUT ON DROSS:TIK RECORDS SOON! Composer, pianist, electronic musician and visual artist John Kameel Farah fuses the music worlds of renaissance and baroque counterpoint, improvisation, Middle-Eastern texture, ambient minimalism, techno and electro-acoustics, to synthesize an entirely original sound.
A virtuosic keyboardist simultaneously using piano, synthesizer sound sculpture, computer sequencing, and at times even harpsichord and organ, his creative efforts are fueled by exchanges of energies on a galactic and microscopic scale. In an effort to see the larger picture, his music draws upon an interest in history, mythology, painting and psychology to help deepen his understanding of life and the human condition.
Classically trained in composition and piano performance at the University of Toronto and the Royal Conservatory, John received the Glenn Gould Composition Award twice during his studies. The influences of the classical and modern composers whose works he performed can be felt in his music, mixing with forays into free improvisation, minimalism, jazz, electro-acoustics, eastern scales, ambient and genres of electronic dance music such as drum & bass, IDM.
In 1999, after meeting minimalist composer/pianist Terry Riley in NYC, he had private lessons at his home in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California and on two occasions he studied Middle-Eastern classical music at the Arabic Music Retreat in Hartford. In 1998 he performed the complete solo piano works of Arnold Schoenberg in Toronto.
He has been interviewed and broadcast by the CBC’s radio programs The Signal, Brave New Waves, Two New Hours and Metro Morning. Also a prolific visual artist, his drawings have been presented at solo and group exhibitions, recently being the Visual-Artist-In-Residence at the Trane Studio jazz club in Toronto.
Farah performs regularly in Toronto, and has also given concerts in Paris, Boston, Vancouver, Montreal, Vermont, the Middle-East and Mexico, this year giving a concert atop the Aztec Great Pyramid of Cholula with galactic visuals created by astronomer John Dubinski. In 1999 and 2002 he visited the Edward Said National Conservatory in the West Bank, giving performances and masterclasses in Ramallah, East Jerusalem
Toronto’s NOW Magazine named his as Best Pianist 2006.
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