SAISONS019 is here and we are happy to welcome back our label founder Kora.


Warm colours, travel stories and distant melodies. Tango, Tantale and Golconda are three songs that the Montreal-based producer started writing in 2018.

Created with recordings from various coordinates, the EP displays a diversity that has been painted by the brushes of people and places that Kora connected with as he was on the road, as always trusting and following the path where music was taking him.

From Allen Husley’s qanun to Ozdemir’s oud, Rafaelle’s Earth language and Alonso Rivero’s drums, the percussive and energetic release is a travel journal that highlights our world’s beautiful and rich diversity.

Tango is the first song taking roots on the South Pole, where Kora created his own interpretation of the melodic anthem the first time he entered a studio in Buenos Aires. As he grew up playing with a small jukebox that contained the tango anthem, the melodic memory came back to him the second he hit the Korg synthesizer keys in Argentina. A happy childhood memory coming to life at the right place and at the right time. 



Tantale is center piece and the second track of this release: a percussive and energetic story that started in Mexico City and reached its full elevation when the inspiring Québec-based healer and musician Ra*faelle added her voice to Kora’s instrumental piece. Rooted in nature’s frequencies, she improvises in what she humbly describes as Earth Language. A magical way of channeling nature’s vibrations into sound.

Golconda is track number 3 of that EP - A rumbling groover that keeps the energy building. The steady percussive tune took its full meaning when Allen Husley and Kora met in Amsterdam. After tuning his instrument to the right key, Allen layered beautiful string rhythms on the song. A few months later, the legendary Turkish musician Özdemir Güz recorded engaging takes on his iconic middle-eastern instrument, the oud.


Thank you for being here, we hope you resonate with this release!

Saisons Team

www.saisonsmusique.com

www.koramusique.com

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Produced and mixed by Kora
Mastered by Hermanez
Released by Saisons Musique