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The Tird
Planet of the solar system is the Earth, so , starting from the
name we chose for our band, we perceive music as a way to
communicate with different cultures to favour a better and deeper
understanding of human nature.
No rigid division line has ever been drawn to separate the music
regions of the world.
India, the Middle East and Europe, despite their considerably
different music traditions, do share the same roots: this is
something that clearly emerges whenever we listen to very ancient
melodies that sound stunningly modern.
The world should not be perceived as made up of watertight
compartments.
Peoples of the world have been influencing one another from time
immemorial and their traditions reflect such influences. Today
there's a lot of concern about the spread of anglo-saxon music
and the risk of cultural standardization it brings about, as a
sort of negative side-effect of the so much praised
globalization. This is a rather arrogant approach. The excessive
power of Western culture (if it ever exists) won't be eternal, as
nothing eternal has ever appeared in this world. If Western
music is at present affecting Eastern music, we'll
eventually get a feed-back from it and that will in turn
affect our music.. This is simply part of the process of
evolution.
That's why we dislike the term "contamination"
and would rather think of music as a "development
process". We don't perceive ourselves as some sort of
"plague-spreaders", contaminating ethnic music with
electronic drums or rock music with ethnic trills, but rather as
world musicians that draw on their different traditions to
develop a new and modern form of art.
SAAZ AND VOICE (Nazar -
Kurdistan - Iraq) : this is an Oriental lute with strings
producing extremely open and typical sound. Some keys are at the
interval of a fourth of tone according to the taste of a large
region that includes the Middle East and of part of the
Mediterranean. The tunes that Nazar sings and plays are very
ancient but sound extremely lively even to our modern ears.
KEYBOARDS (Maurizio Dami - Firenze - Italy): they
represent the “primordial soup”, the sound of
“reality as it is”, unaffected by history and culture.
They provide the “glue”, they create the environment
within which tunes can swim like fishes in the water.
KEYBOARDS and VOICE (Smail Kouider Aissa, Algeria) : They
represent the dialogue amongst different Mediterranean cultures
and the door to the Arab world. Smail comes from Algerian Rai.
TABLAS ( Rashmi v. Bhatt, Gujarat - India): the
most typical and universally famous Indian percussions need no
further presentation. Due to their precise tuning they are not
only rhythmic but also harmonic instruments.
DAF,
DARBOUKA, JEMBE' (Paolo Casu - Italia) : The rhythmic
colors of Africa and Middle Est.
