"BEYOND FEELINGS" NEW ALBUM OUT SOON"
Sultan is virtually a one-man Music Festival. Pop, rock, blues/r&b, and a variety of world-music influences abound in his music. But his songs do not sound at all like the scattershot musings of a dilettante. Rather, they are the mature, well-developed stylings of a "world fusion" artist who truly understands what it means to fuse all these disparate elements into one easily digestible, decidedly distinctive pop package. His forthcoming CD should be of great interest to an uncommonly wide-ranging audience.
Musicians: Michael Blair (Tom Waits, Elevis Costello, Lou Reed) Brady Blade (Jewel, Emmylou Harris) James Bradly Jr (Crazy Town, Beastie Boys…), Mike Glossop(Van Morisson, John Lee Hooker) Mikeal Zimmerling (Depeche Mode, Simply Red) Ryan Roxie (Alice Cooper), Mamoun " Speedy", Tony Ellis, Chris Bell, Chuck Anthony, Dereck Walker, Olle, Marcelo Nunez, Molle, Gaston, AsMAlik, Thiommy, Saint James, Hannan, Elin Jakobsson, Karl Olandersson, Ali Mike Susso, Ghani 31, Jonas Pomo, and many other equally amazing musicians.
Sultan composes and performs a genre of music which is both traditional and modern. He has developed a personal musical mix in which he blends different musical styles as well as music from all over the world and creates an exciting and unique musical style which is both innovative and captivating. His music could be described as having influences of funk, jazz, reggae, blues, soul, Latin rhythms as well as folk music from various corners of the world. The same applies to the mix of instruments with everything ranging from traditional drums to electronic soundscapes.
The fact that his style has its roots in ra� music mixed with a variety of different musical directions, is partly because he is originally from Algeria and partly because he has written and performed music with a number of bands of different ethnic background, such as Down By Law from Italy, New Phases from South Africa, Aquarius from France, Hada Ra�na from Sweden, and others.
Sultan presents his musical style with great energy and charm, especially in his live performances. He performs with a number of musicians from different ethnic backgrounds, and on occasion also with dancers.
He has also participated at major European festivals such as: Falun Folk Musik Festival, Roskilde Festival, ArtGenda Festival, Stockholm Water Festival, Re:Orient Festival , Folk o Folk Festival, Verlden i Norden Festival, 550 Fatih Istanbul Festival and many others.
Sultan's artistic field extends into the domains of performing and directing his shows, as well as composing music for films and theatre plays, such as La Celestina set up at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre ( Dramaten ) under the direction of Robert Lepage (1998), and the film Nattbok by Carl Henrik Svenstedt, " Vingar av glas" and " Cappricciosa" directed by Reza Bagher,"Huvudrollen" by Leyla Assaf -Tangroth.
