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Dirar Kalash
Pianist, sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Dirar Kalash (b. 1982) works across a wide range of musical and sonic practices, moving between composed and improvised forms of free jazz and avant-garde.
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His work expands into interdisciplinary theoretical research, sound installations and live audio-visual performances, often led by political urgency. The two compositions on his latest release, Malcom X In Gaza, refer to two revolutionary forces (Frantz Fanon and Malcom X) to assert the bonds between Pan Africanism, Black Liberation and Palestinian Liberation. With deeply textured instrumentals and a reflective - but un-metaphorical - approach, Kalash utilises free form experimentation as a form of resistance.
