Jazz Articles about John Kameel Farah

John Kameel Farah & Nick Fraser: Farahser

by Glenn Astarita
June 28, 2024

On their entrancing debut duo outing Farahser-- Toronto/Berlin-based keyboardist and composer John Kameel Farah and eminent Toronto area drummer Nick Fraser--engage in a thrillingly unpredictable and genre-defying musical conversation. Drawing upon their respective backgrounds in classical, jazz, and experimental music, Farah and Fraser craft a series of spontaneous compositions which distort the lines between structure and improvisation due to acoustic and electronic textures, cerebral complexity and visceral emotion. The duo has constructed a work of striking ...