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Mad Sheer Khan.....Voice, Dilruba
Celia.....................Farfisa, Indian Harmonium
F. Essindi...............African Perc
Mad Sheer Khan was born Mahamad Hadi, in Algiers in 1955, of mixed
Persian and Arabic origin. He studied in France, where he now lives.
His experience of being steeped in three different cultures has enabled
him to develop fruitful relations between these varied influences. His
oriental roots are apparent everywhere in the rhythms, colors, scales
and sources of inspiration of his music. His aim is to go beyond the
worn-out image of the 'exotic East', and in order to achieve this he
constantly seeks points of contact between a western-inspired oriental
culture and its counterpart, an oriental-inspired western culture. Mad
Sheer Khan strives to give his music a wide range by juxtaposing ideas
from both classical and folk music, developing them in compositions in
which classically urban and rural styles exist side by side. An
guitarist, could first show his incredible talent within his own band
RAHMANN (formed his first group in 1975), one of the most impressive
jazz-rock fusion bands of the Seventies. .."> RAHMANN
released by Ramses Polygram only one eponymous album in 1979. The
French band played a sort of precursor to ethnic progressive jazz-rock,
mixing jazz and arabian music. The complex and thoughtful music,
written by Mahamad HADI is energetic and full of rythmic changes. The
sounds of the ney flute and other Near Eastern instruments (Oud,
electric sitar, saz, darbouka...) brilliantly top off music close to
that of MAGMA and BRAND X, THE MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA, featuring fiery
guitar, sinewy keyboards and Gérard PREVOST's bass. Guest appearances
by Didier LOCKWOOD, Lisa DELUXE, GUEM and so on... . Leader of
the "TAG" (Tradition and Avant-garde), movement of which he is the
creator since 1973, he transposes his Afro-Asian origins (he studied
with the largest Masters the instruments and musics Persian
(tar/Santur) Baul, Gnawa and Indian...) to sonorities most current jazz
electro and rock to draw from it a powerful and subtle, unexpected and
captivating music. In
1981, he formed a duo and adopted an image that was quite rare for the
time: he spent the 1980s swathed in a turban, deliberately going
against what was then the normal practice. His unconventional
appearance did not deter the critics, who responded enthusiastically to
his playingin 1982 the well-known English magazine New Musical Express
listed him among the ten best guitarists in the world. During this
period Mad was in fact living in London, where he worked with Velvet
Underground's muse, NICO , on the albums DRAMA OF EXILE 1 &2, and
was acclaimed for his virtuosity. On his return to France, still
under the influence of his London experiences. Mad Sheer Khan wrote
pieces with a harder edge than any he had composed before and formed
the group HAREM, with which he performed a mixture of electronic and
acoustic music. In 1994 He went solo again, returning to a more ethnic
style of acoustic music and and devotes himself exclusively to Dilruba,
a violin of Radjasthan. Since then, he's been acknowledged an
essential musician, both in France and abroad. The list of people he
worked with would be far too long to mention, but we can name a few:
SAPHO, KEZIAH JONES, MICHAEL RILEY de RPO ET STEEL PULSE, ALLA, MICHAEL
HUTCHENCE (INXS), L SUBRAMANIAM, NILDA FERNANDEZ, AU BONHEUR DES DAMES,
RAMON PIPIN'S ODEURS, SIMON POSTFORD (HALLUCINOGENE), PABAN DAS, BAPI
DAS BAUL, THE BAULS OF BENGAL, FARID AOUAMEUR, MAHMOUD TABRIZI ZADEH,
DIDIER LOCKWOOD, JEAN LOUIS AUBERT, AXEL BAUER, MAURANE, YOUTH (KILLING
JOKE), JAMI CATO (FAITHLESS), ALI SHAÏGAN, MOULEY M'BAREK, STING.... In
1996 , he composes "TALISMAN" , an incomparable cd in which he plays
all instruments (dilruba, santur, saz, harmonium, sitar, rebab afghan
rebab and keyborad) mixing with subltility spaces electronic and
acoustic (recorded in Dragonfly Studio -Youth - Killing joke/ London).
Some friends took part in this Mad Sheer Khan's instrumental voyage,
Nigel Eaton (hurdy gurdy/R. Plant & J. Page) and the voice of
Dierdra on "Voodoo Valley" (Ekova). Signed in 1999 by the
prestigious Label Erato , represented in the United States by Atlantic
Records Company, he composes and produces the incredible one and
essential, "1001 NIGHTS", pacifist disc to unify who brings together 7
female vocalists from the world to interpret songs based on poems from
the book 1001 Tales of the Arabian Nights in their own native tongues
(6th in European World Charts of 1999 and official selection of the RFI
2000 awards) . Navajo-MARY
REDHOUSE, Persian-PARVIN GAVDAN, Malian-MAMANI KEITA, Algerian-FELA
ABABSA, Israeli-NOURITH, Tibetan- KUNCHOK LAMA and Indian-SHARMILA ROY
are all represented here, with the artist's expressed goal to "convey
the diversity of the world through a common spirit." A stellar
multicultural lineup of musicians tailoring each song to its singer :
with the two masters SUBRAMANIAM (violin) and ALLA (Ud) and the strings
of Bulgaria's Plovdiv Chamber Orchestra. In 2000, he records "Mahjuba"
in the honor of his mother. With his album, "SAMARKAND HOTEL" (2002), Mad Sheer Khan revisited the work of Jimi HENDRIX through the sound of his Dilruba.
Why then call his first live album "Samarkand Hotel ? Well, just
because this artist pays here tribute to Jimi HENDRIX, as well as to
the place in Portobello Road (London) where he spent his last night.
Samarkand is also the name of a town in Uzbekistan, on the former silk
road, and that thus reminds of Arabic and Persian roots. The hypnotic
percussions blend the ritual transe with a new form of electroacoustic . It
is hard to classify this recording. It is world music, but also
dreamtime psychedelia, and simply an incredible jam. Mad Sheer Khan has
taken legendary rock songs like "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob
Dylan; "Stone Free," "Purple Haze," "Voodoo Chile," "Fire" and "If 6
was 9," by Jimi Hendrix; and "Changes" by Buddy Miles, plus a handful
of original pieces "John Lee Hooker", "Believe", and has recreated them
with an unconventional jam band. Mad sheer Khan's collaborators play
Indian tabla - a disciple of Ravi SHANKAR and of Alla RAKHA for the
tablas, Anand KUMAR, African drums - Sergio LEON RUFFIN and drone
instruments such as the harmonium and tanpura - CELIA. The effect is a
metamorphosis of rock songs into trance-like dilruba improvisations
that sounds like an electric guitar processed with distortion effects.
2008
, "DEMONCRACY" , is a new step in MAD SHEER KHAN's pacifist
development, in line with Seventies rebels' views that he used to
share. This fifteen-track album features a solidarity call sent to
pacifist American people, " US Rebel", which also fight against the
abuses of the Bush government. Two magnificent tributes, one to THE
VELVET UNDERGROUND's muse, NICO, with whom he recorded in 1981 "ORLY
FLIGHT", a hymn to illegal immigrant . The other one is devoted to
Edwin STARR and his so popular title "WAR" which transposes the Vietnam
war to the current situation in Iraq . "AWAKE" is a title of hope, its
lyrics were written for MAD SHEER KHAN' s music by a leading Buddhist
dignitary, "Tal Stupa's Twelfth Reincarnation". This album both wakes
you up and puzzles you, it is life-tumult rich, conveys sadness that is
too often familiar with acid humor, includes a pamphlet about political
cynicism and reaches combative rock primal energy, the artist surprises
us once again by his variety and richness. An essential psyche sound
that leads us to the heart of a TRIBAL ROCK mixed with the powerful
blow of his usual DILRUBA, an Indian violin having definitely
inexhaustible tones, performed in the unique style of this rare and
visionary virtuoso.
Yamina & Nasser Hadi, Saadi, Mohamed El Anka, Sultan Khan, Hampate Ba, Jimi Hendrix, Nikhil Banerjee, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Gil Scott Heron, Eva de Vitray Meyerovitch, Hossein Teherani, Miles Davis, Djalal Ud Din Rumi, Bob Marley, Munir Bachir, Bahman Nirumand, Django Reinhardt, Elvin Jones, Martin Luther King, Ravi Shankar & Alla Rakha, Wladimir Yankelevitch, Stevie Wonder, Khalil Gibran, Weather Report, René Khawam, Magma, Creedence, Mouley M'Barek, Stravinsky, Fela Kuti, Farid El Atrach, Bela Bartok, Shapun & Paban Das
Sounds Like
BUY CD
1 - All along the Watchtower
2 - Stone Free
3 - Changes
4 - If 6 was 9
5 - No One
6 - Purple Haze
7 - John Lee Hooker
8 - Fire
9 - Voodoo Child
10 - Believe
BUY CD
1 - Atlanta
2 - Nadiamina
3 - Ab
4 - Danse Sacrée
5 - Leîla
6 - Marche Funèbre dédiée aux Prophètes
Découvrez !
Parvis de l'Hotel de Ville de Paris
LES RENDEZ VOUS ELECTRONIQUES - Sept 2003
Samarkand Hotel Tour -
Fire (Jimi Hendrix) Festival des Papillons de Nuit
Samarkand Hotel Tour -
Believe (Mad SK) Festival des Rockailles
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Samarkand Hotel Tour -
Fire (Jimi Hendrix) Festival des Rockailles
Reharsal - Repetition 2001
Support Amnesty International
Mahamad Hadi devenu Mad Sheer Khan en 1990 a le métissage dans le sang autant que dans le son. Son parcours artistique est de celui qui passe outre les frontières. Il a commencé dans les années 70 par fonder le groupe RAHMANN qui jouait un jazz-rock progressif arabe totalement novateur et lumineux. l'unique album èponyme sorti chez Polydor en 1980 est un disque culte aujourd'hui Par la suite, alors qu'il enregistrait "DRAMA OF EXILE" en Angleterre avec l'égérie du VELVET UNDERGROUND, NICO, MAD, guitariste extraordinaire, a été reconnu pour ses talents musicaux et plebiscité par les journaux anglais. Son apparence n'est pas non plus passée inaperçue. Il est vrai qu'à cette époque, dans le milieu pop-rock, on ne croisait guère de guitariste coiffé d'un turban ! Producteurs de nombreux albums, Mad a croisé sur sa route des artistes aussi différents que SAPHO, KEZIAH JONES, MICHAEL RILEY de RPO ET STEEL PULSE, ALLA, GUS TILL, MICHAEL HUTCHENCE (INXS), L SUBRAMANIAM, NILDA FERNANDEZ, AU BONHEUR DES DAMES, RAMON PIPIN'S ODEURS, SIMON POSTFORD (HALLUCINOGENE), VASKEN SOLAKIAN, PABAN DAS, BAPI DAS BAUL, THE BAULS OF BENGAL, FARID AOUAMEUR, MAHMOUD TABRIZI ZADEH, DIDIER LOCKWOOD, JEAN LOUIS AUBERT, AXEL BAUER, MAURANE, YOUTH (KILLING JOKE), JAMI CATO (FAITHLESS), ALI SHAÏGAN, MOULEY M'BAREK, STING.... Il s'est pris de passion pour diverses musiques traditionnelles : la musique persane, celle des Gnawas marocains, celle des Bauls du Bengale et a étudié le Dilruba, un violon indien de quelques 24 cordes, conçu comme une synthése du sitar et du sarangi - auprés du maître Ekram Khan, un disciple de Sultan Khan Aprés avoir fondé HAREM en 1987, un groupe constitué de trois musiciennes plus Mad au chant, et dont la musique mêlait sons electro et instruments acoustiques Mad Sheer Khan l'artiste a enfin revelé son talent en soliste. Il a ainsi enregistré en 1996, l'album "TALISMAN" dans lequel il assure tous les instruments (dilruba, santur, saz, sitar, rebab afghan, percussion, harmonium et claviers). Aprés avoir mis à l'honneur les minorités ethniques dans "1001 NIGHTS" (dans lequel interviennent sept chanteuses de cultures différentes - Navajo MARY REDHOUSE, Persane PARVIN GAVDAN, Malienne MAMANI KEITA, Algérienne FELA ABABSA, Israelienne NOURITH, Tibétaine KUNCHOK LAMA, Indienne SHARMILA ROY - ainsi que le joueur de oud algérien ALLA et le violoniste indien L SUBRAMANIAM) puis l'Algérie dans "MAHJUBA" (dédié à sa mère disparue), il a aussi transposé et ressuscité l'univers sonore de JIMI HENDRIX dans "SAMARKAND HOTEL" , mélangeant les chansons d'Hendrix et ses propres compositions sans même que l'on n'y prenne garde, comme si tout était naturel, répertoire avec lequel il tourne dans plusieurs pays depuis quatre ans. Pour "Samarkand Hotel", Mad est accompagné sur scène par SERGIO LEON RUFFIN, batteur cubain, ANAND KUMAR, disciple de RAVI SHANKAR et d'ALLA RAKHA au tablas, et CELIA à l'harmonium indien, la tampura tag et la station-électro et joue lui-même d'un dilruba qui restitue toutes les particularités de la fameuse guitare électrique du "Voodoo Child" avec wah-wah et distorsion, générant ainsi un Rock Tribal, transe d'un genre nouveau.....
DEMONCRACY 2008 Mad Sheer Khan nous délivre aujourd'hui un album résolument ancré dans une actualité brûlante, le bushisme, le pétrole, l'Iraq, la terreur, le camp X-Ray de Guantanamo, les mines anti-personnel, les manipulations affairistes et égoïstes des politiques, la surveillance et les contrôles dictatoriaux des populations (caméra et écoute du Big Brother) Autant de thémes visités qui s'inscrivent dans le parcours pacifiste de Mad Sheer Khan, dans la lignée des années 70 rebelles dont il est issu.
Sur cet album de 15 titres, US Rebel, un appel à la solidarité adressé au peuple américain pacifiste qui lutte lui aussi contre les abus du gouvernement Bush. Deux magnifiques hommages , un à la muse de l'Underground Nico avec qui il a enregistré en 1981 ce même Orly Flight, hymne aux exilés clandestins et un à Edwin Star, avec le celebrissime "War", transposé du VietNam initial à l'Iraq actuel. Un titre d'espoir "Awake" dont les paroles ont été écrites pour la musique de Mad Sheer Khan par un haut dignitaire Bouddhiste " La 12eme Réincarnation du Tal Stupa". Un album qui réveille qui déroute, riche des tumultes de la vie, de la tristesse trop souvent familière à l'humour acide, du pamphlet sur le cynisme politique jusqu'à l'énergie primale du rock combatif Plus d'infos (Gallerie Photos, Vidéos, Interviews) sur : Official website
salut mad et merci pour l'dd..j'ai bien ecouté et aprecié ton premier disc avec fella entre autre..je t'invite a ecouté un extrait sur ma page (il etait une fois l'algerie)qui pourait bien te plaire..a trés bientot
*** Namaste! *** May the rainbow's power shine on your way, opening your life to all the colours experiences, as a butterfly dancing on the joy of beauty *** Hari 3õ ***
Bravo à toi et à tes collègues pour le concert d'hier au VIP... Bon week-end, bonne roots, et à la prochaine dans cette demoncraty, ou dans une autre...
After creating the World, the Gods wondered where they could hide the key of Life. One of them paused and said: “There is one place on earth where the Humans will never look. Their own heart”.
Thanks for the add.
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Thank you fi the add...Jah Bless. It's so cool fi I to get in touch with the I , seen. I stil think that you and I can make a good song together...Jah know.
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