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Pan (Kim / Benes / Haag / Alsadi / Saremi)
I Had A Dream

Pan (Kim / Benes / Haag / Alsadi / Saremi): I Had A Dream (Creative Sources)

Perhaps referring to their "Pan"-global membership, with improvisers from Europe, Iran, Palestine and South Korea, and unusual instrumentation including the kanun and keneche, the Pan quintet recorded this album using unconventional composing methods and the integration of sound processing and extraneous interjections, a truly unique album of encompassing improvisation.
 

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Personnel:



Joel Haag-acoustic guitar

Vit Benes-electric guitar

Shafeeq Alsadi-Kanun

Farshad Saremi-Kemenche

Jung-Jae Kim-saxophone


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UPC: 5609063406665

Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs666
Squidco Product Code: 29492

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2020
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Studio Glasfageln, in Gothenburg, Sweden, on March 11th, 2020, by Gustav Davidsson.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"Pan is a contemporary band with five musicians from all over the world. We pursue soundscape music which consists of coincidence, irregularity and chaos by using unconventional composing methods and various sound effects, noises, and always with improvisation as its core."-Pan



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Artist Biographies

Joel Haag - guitar. Lives in Gothenburg, studied at:

Högskolan för scen och musik
Gothenburg
fridhems folkhögskola
Svalöf, Skåne Län, Sweden
Heleneholms Gymnasium
Malmö, Sweden
Videdalsskolan
Malmö, Sweden

-Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/joel.haag.7/friends?lst=1389755694%3A579847370%3A1606172297&source_ref=pb_friends_tl)
7/7/2025

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"Vít Beneš - guitar

Student of Vilém Spilka and David Dorůžka. Vít plays in Ondřej Zámečník Quintet, The Dudes of Ellington, Boundary Jazz Quintet and many more. He has not been anywhere else, but we wish for him to finally make it to Erasmus!"

-The Abs Website (https://www.theabs.net/)
7/7/2025

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"Richard Alsadi, known by his name Shafeeq Alsadi, is a Palestinian Qanoun master, vocalist, and composer born in Jerusalem and live in Bethlehem, Palestine."

-Shafeeq Alsadi Twitter Account (https://twitter.com/ShafeeqSaadi)
7/7/2025

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"Farshad Saremi is a kemenche player born in 1982 in Tehran. He learned to play the kemenche with professors Mohammad Moghaddasi and Ardeshir Kamkar, and also used the guidance of his father, Fathollah Saremi, in the field of singing. He has also learned the basics, harmony and music performance with Saeed Lotfi, Hamidreza Dibazer and Sharif Lotfi. In addition to playing the kemenche, he also learned the violin from his father Friusfi. Collaboration with various groups as a musician and composer and performing numerous concerts with these groups inside Iran (Tehran and other cities) as well as abroad, including groups: Aftab (led by Hamid Khabazi), Iranian (to Directed by Pejman Taheri), Neystan (led by Kourosh Matin), Fakhteh (led by Reza Mousavizadeh), Foujan (composed and directed by Hamidreza Debazar), Sepid va Siah (as musician and composer), Nafir (led by Shahin Shahbazi), Hand spreader and so on."

-Navayab (Translated by Google) (https://www.navayab.com/farshad-saremi.html)
7/7/2025

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Jung-Jae Kim is a South Korean saxophonist, the leader of the band The JJ Motion.

-Squidco 7/7/2025

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Track Listing:



1. Air 'Dream' 7:25

2. Road 'Driving' 4:34

3. Wave 'Voice' 8:14

4. Siren 'Sopor' 5:22

5. Light 'Reflection' 6:02

6. Radio 'Nostalgia' 5:25

7. Bricks 'Battery' 5:38

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