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Harri Kakoulli is a World Music pioneer. He's been involved in writing, producing, and mixing world music since the mid-eighties. He's worked as an artist writing and producing his own work, building a formidable reputation as one of the world's leading producers of world music and gathering great reviews over the years. As a pioneer in World Music, Harri produced, created, and mixed the first two groundbreaking world music compilation albums 'Fuse 1' and 'Fuse 2', starting a whole new trend in world music and coining the term "world music" for the genre.
He's recorded collaborations with many musicians and top world music artists, produced, mixed, and recorded tracks, and worked with artists such as Maxi Priest, Jocelyn Brown, King Sunny Ade, Natacha Atlas, Malcolm McLaren, Talvin Singh, Jah Wobble, Aki Nawaz (Fundamental), Joana Lewie, Ukrainians, Joi, The Wedding Present, Oliver Cheatham, Andy Weatherall, Tall Paul, Youth, Imagination, The Only Ones, Squeeze, the late Smiley Culture, Carl Douglas, Sandra Cross, Eric Donaldson, Asher Senator, the late Freddie McKay, the late Merchant, Stavros Siolas, and many others. Harri worked for eight months in Nigeria with various artists and collected some unusual sounds for future projects. Since then, he's been working on his own material in London and Cyprus.
INSIDE OUT
"This guy has been everywhere, with everyone, from Africa to Ministry of Sound! He started the Ethnic World Dance scene some fifteen years ago, a touch ahead of schedule. Pioneer or what?" - Tony Dynamou, CYPRUS MAIL
"A handful of people have come along in my musical life and moved me directly, Harri's a genius, put simply, and a vastly underrated one at that." - Haji Mike
"Mmmm, what can I say, I can only guess at the amount of hard work, devotion, and love that goes into this creation. I listen to the album and I feel like I am living a journey with you, traveling through cultures, languages, and divides, it makes me feel calm and confident, and I lust after the spiritual instinctive, global edge that it leaves me with when I listen to it. I'd compare it to an orchestral movement, at the moment I feel like it is one beautifully crafted part of the movement. Love the layering of it; love the build-up, the beauty, and elegance of the tracks."
JUST A FEW COMMENTS LEFT ON HARRI'S MYSPACE SITE
Your music is pure magic! Beautiful! Beautiful vibes here! You're a true wizard. You scare me. What can I say, fantastic music. Truly mesmerizing! You are a special musician: your "vision", deep and fine. Soulful music with no boundaries. Absolutely beautiful music. Amazing, amazing, and amazing music! I'm stopping by to listen to your great work. I really love your tracks... Nice to be back into your deep quality sound! There's always a good trip here.
I listened to your incredible music... Wow! Your compositions are as clear, mysterious, piercing to the soul, intense, passionate, and seductive as your eyes in your photo... Listening to your music made every muscle in my body move. My feet could not stop dancing, and my mind was racing with thoughts of being able to choreograph a Flamenco dance to one of your pieces. You have the soul of a dancer as your music has the ability to let people see the musical notes dancing with their ears... OLE! Pure class of the highest level. Beautiful. Evocative. Captivates from beginning to end. An enchanted journey into new worlds I will visit again and again. I cried when I listened to your songs. Because the songs are beautiful. I feel like a child as I listen to your amazing music. What stunning work you have created, it is beyond beautiful. Your music is superb, will be back to listen again, and again. Love what YOU do! Your weaving with music, sounds, and voices are amazing... intimate, atmospheric, breathing the essence... I'm taken away to another place by "Cry my soul". Beautiful! Awesome vibe! Your music takes me to another world where cigars and fine scotch are everywhere! It is not often that I come across, or someone so gracefully crosses my path with such a sound that it leaves me speechless. Brilliant atmospheres here, something of a discovery indeed, ethereal, entrancing... take a walk on the Byzantine side. Wow, just in what I have heard in the beginnings of "Love like Heaven", I am hooked!! :) My senses were enchanted from the very first note. Your music is not of this world.
He's recorded collaborations with many musicians and top world music artists, produced, mixed, and recorded tracks, and worked with artists such as Maxi Priest, Jocelyn Brown, King Sunny Ade, Natacha Atlas, Malcolm McLaren, Talvin Singh, Jah Wobble, Aki Nawaz (Fundamental), Joana Lewie, Ukrainians, Joi, The Wedding Present, Oliver Cheatham, Andy Weatherall, Tall Paul, Youth, Imagination, The Only Ones, Squeeze, the late Smiley Culture, Carl Douglas, Sandra Cross, Eric Donaldson, Asher Senator, the late Freddie McKay, the late Merchant, Stavros Siolas, and many others. Harri worked for eight months in Nigeria with various artists and collected some unusual sounds for future projects. Since then, he's been working on his own material in London and Cyprus.
INSIDE OUT
"This guy has been everywhere, with everyone, from Africa to Ministry of Sound! He started the Ethnic World Dance scene some fifteen years ago, a touch ahead of schedule. Pioneer or what?" - Tony Dynamou, CYPRUS MAIL
"A handful of people have come along in my musical life and moved me directly, Harri's a genius, put simply, and a vastly underrated one at that." - Haji Mike
"Mmmm, what can I say, I can only guess at the amount of hard work, devotion, and love that goes into this creation. I listen to the album and I feel like I am living a journey with you, traveling through cultures, languages, and divides, it makes me feel calm and confident, and I lust after the spiritual instinctive, global edge that it leaves me with when I listen to it. I'd compare it to an orchestral movement, at the moment I feel like it is one beautifully crafted part of the movement. Love the layering of it; love the build-up, the beauty, and elegance of the tracks."
JUST A FEW COMMENTS LEFT ON HARRI'S MYSPACE SITE
Your music is pure magic! Beautiful! Beautiful vibes here! You're a true wizard. You scare me. What can I say, fantastic music. Truly mesmerizing! You are a special musician: your "vision", deep and fine. Soulful music with no boundaries. Absolutely beautiful music. Amazing, amazing, and amazing music! I'm stopping by to listen to your great work. I really love your tracks... Nice to be back into your deep quality sound! There's always a good trip here.
I listened to your incredible music... Wow! Your compositions are as clear, mysterious, piercing to the soul, intense, passionate, and seductive as your eyes in your photo... Listening to your music made every muscle in my body move. My feet could not stop dancing, and my mind was racing with thoughts of being able to choreograph a Flamenco dance to one of your pieces. You have the soul of a dancer as your music has the ability to let people see the musical notes dancing with their ears... OLE! Pure class of the highest level. Beautiful. Evocative. Captivates from beginning to end. An enchanted journey into new worlds I will visit again and again. I cried when I listened to your songs. Because the songs are beautiful. I feel like a child as I listen to your amazing music. What stunning work you have created, it is beyond beautiful. Your music is superb, will be back to listen again, and again. Love what YOU do! Your weaving with music, sounds, and voices are amazing... intimate, atmospheric, breathing the essence... I'm taken away to another place by "Cry my soul". Beautiful! Awesome vibe! Your music takes me to another world where cigars and fine scotch are everywhere! It is not often that I come across, or someone so gracefully crosses my path with such a sound that it leaves me speechless. Brilliant atmospheres here, something of a discovery indeed, ethereal, entrancing... take a walk on the Byzantine side. Wow, just in what I have heard in the beginnings of "Love like Heaven", I am hooked!! :) My senses were enchanted from the very first note. Your music is not of this world.
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