Music
Fauna
Gothenburg shamans from the same ritual stable as Altin Gün, YĪN YĪN, and Nusantara Beat
"We were just looking for a nice, pleasant, safe group to hang out with a bit," says bassist Ibrahim Shabo on the origin of the multi-headed Fauna. 'A bit of hanging out' sounds suspiciously like a supranational spiritual exorcism in this case, somewhere in a Swedish coniferous forest, in a clearing, where barely traceable cultural influences mix with one another. We hear the stifling chants of Alexandra Shahbo; a darbuka and a saz; the fairy-tale-like flute playing of Fauna Buvat; oh, and that unmistakable four-to-the-floor motorik beat, à la Can. The end result is a 'taiga trance' that you can hear the Valkyries dancing to. That is how adventurous 'nice, pleasant, and safe' can be.
