Kalakan

Kalakan is a village located at 34°46′51″N 69°08′55″E / 34.7808°N 69.1486°E / 34.7808; 69.1486 at 1,610 m altitude. It is center of Kalakan District, Kabul Province, Afghanistan.

Kalakan (village)

Kalakan is a village located at 34°46′51″N 69°08′55″E / 34.7808°N 69.1486°E / 34.7808; 69.1486 at 1,610 m altitude. It is center of Kalakan District, Kabul Province, Afghanistan.

Kalakan (band)

Kalakan is a music band from northern Basque country composed of Thierry Biscary, Jamixel Bereau and Xan Errotabehere. It is characterized by minimalist arrangements (vocals, percussions) of basque traditional songs. After having collaborated and toured Europe with pianists Katia et Marielle Labèque, the trio become known to a larger audience when they collaborated with Madonna during The MDNA Tour.

Career

Formation : 2009-2010

Kalakan was created in 2009 by Paxkal Indo and Thierry Biscary from their txalaparta duo. After touring Europe with pianists Katia et Marielle Labèque performing an arrangement for two pianos and Basque percussion of Maurice Ravel's Boléro, they invited percussionnist Frédéric Chambon to join them to form a trio. Before going on their first artist in residence program to prepare their first record, Chambon was replaced by singer and percussionist Jamixel Bereau.

Kalakan album was recorded at Laguna Records in Biarritz and mixed at studio K in Paris by producer David Chalmin during autumn 2010. Katia and Marielle Labèque recorded "Kantuz" with a piano arrangement made by Joël Merah, and Basque choir Anaiki from Paris contributed backing vocals to "De Treville-n azken hitzak". This first album was co-produced by Basque record label ZTK Diskak, representing Paxkal Indo, and Italian record label KML Recordings, representing Katia and Marielle Labèque. 2000 discs were duplicated, with a portion of them being distributed by Abeille musique (France) and Elkar (Basque country).