Kabul Fire Vol. 2

by Farhot

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auge69hd Moin und Grüße aus Heidelberg, ich bin mehr so der Househead aber Feel Ugly trifft bei mir den Ton plus proper dope beats 4 real , Music is Life ! Auge69 Favorite track: Feel Ugly.

Marco H. Yak Sher belongs to the tunes that flashed me most this year. Just love it!

Birdboy Feel Ugly's a banger. Also great beats and samples.
Favorite track: Feel Ugly.

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Oriental Flair with massive Beats.

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1.	Bale Bale (Intro) 00:34		buy track
2.	Kalun 01:46		buy track
3.	Yak Sher 03:25	info	buy track
4.	Check feat. JuJu Rogers & Nneka 02:52	info	buy track
5.	Kishmish 02:26	info	buy track
6.	Feel Ugly 05:08 video	info	buy track
7.	Azadi 02:14		buy track
8.	Pul 02:19		buy track
9.	Sampling Watana / Biya Bachem feat. Moshtari 02:15		buy track
10.	Arusi 03:17		buy track
11.	Ahange Qadimi 03:11		buy track
12.	Baqi Manda 02:18	info	buy track
13.	Shirin (Outro) 00:35		buy track

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Brimming with fresh hip-hop ideas, rugged beats and featuring various guest MCs, Kabul Fire Vol 2. is Farhot's follow up to his 2013 debut album and is a rich tapestry of contemporary culture, bridging the forgotten cultural notes of Afghanistan with the street sounds of the west

Wiring together sampled Afghani documentaries, string orchestrations and tabla drums with key inputs from UK and German rappers like JuJu Rogers, Tiggs Da Author and Nneka, Farhot has made a body of work that amplifies his wide ranging immersion in hip hop culture and his traditional Afghan heritage. Kabul Fire Vol 2 is so much more than set of beats and samples, it's a tour of a creative mind dealing with the challenges faced as an Afghan living in a western culture in Hamburg, having fled Afghanistan with his family as a young boy in the early 80s, during the Afghan and Soviet war.

The recent history of Afghanistan is rich in twists and turns, tragedies, violence, but also filled with the hope of a better tomorrow. So whilst the record has various tracks sampling documentaries about recent wars, and even features the voice of Ahmad Shah Mahsoud (Yak Sher), a resistance fighter of the 1980s, Farhot remonstrates this is a positive record and that "sampling Afghani sounds is a way of bringing us all back together". With those samples baked into complex song arrangements, Farhot succeeds in creating a nuanced homage to Afghanistan that is full of surprises, breaches, and switches in pace and atmosphere.

Since his 2013 debut, Farhot has owned and run the Kabul Fire record label from his home in Germany. Whilst Kabul Fire Vol 1 "felt more like a beats and pieces album", despite some heavy collaborations with Ms Dynamite, Giggs and Kano, Kabul Fire Vol. 2 is much more. It's collage of Kabul but a Kabul in the heart of Farhot in 2021. It's his musical resistance, his personal tapestry to a country he loves but has no idea whether he will ever be reunited to.

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released January 29, 2021

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Farhot Hamburg, Germany

Farhot is the founder of Kabul Fire Records and has successfully been producing music for a wide range of artists for more than a decade now. His impressive body of work includes productions for artists like Giggs, Kano, Isaiah Rashad, Talib Kweli, Selah Sue, 113, LOC, Haftbefehl, Max Herre, Xatar, and many more. ... more

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