"Maximalism" is what Canadian-born composer and pianist John Kameel Farah calls his unique way of composing. In every second of his music, the complexity of the musical world appears as an organic whole. Farah thus represents a new generation of composers. Complexity and narration are not mutually exclusive. His music overwhelms the listener in its sonic power: piano, live-produced synthesizer sounds and organ sounds are layered into passages that can best be described as "power-minimal". These are replaced by almost "contrapuntal" units into which Arabic melodic fragments are woven.
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