Kayhan Kalhor & Toumani Diabaté - The Sky Is The Same Colour Everywhere (extract)

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An extract from Kayhan Kalhor and Toumani Diabaté's performance at the Morgenland Festival, Osnabrück in 2016.

The idea for the duo came from Michael Dreyer, director of the Morgenland Festival in Osnabrück, Germany where Kayhan had frequently played in several other collaborations. The preparation was minimal, not even a discussion about scales or structure, but just a sound check in which they “checked certain things” and then simply played about 90 minutes of music.

That performance was in September 2016 and they followed it with a short European tour to a few other venues, although Kayhan says the shape of the piece didn’t really change. They recorded it in Paris after the final concert in Brussels.

The recording will be available on the album 'The Sky Is The Same Colour Everywhere,' released on Real World Records on 5 May 2023

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Video courtesy of Morgenland Festival, used with permission.