Vinyl (Limited Edition) Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes: 'Selected Mixes of Classic Flavours'

12" vinyl EP containing 4 stunning remixes by Youth, Jam El Mar, DM-Theory & Ajja

a1. Saafi Brothers - On Air (Youth Remix)
a2. Saafi Brothers - Sweet Sirenes (Jam El Mar Remix)
b1. Saafi Brothers - Sweet Sirenes (DM-Theory Remix)
b2. Saafi Brothers - Supervision (Ajja Remix)

 

https://saafibrothers.bandcamp.com/album/saafi-brothers-mystic-cigarettes-select-remixes-of-classic-flavours-ep

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cover designed by Simon Ghahary, painting by Brahma

https://www.instagram.com/theartofbrahma

 

Saafi Brothers are delighted to present the remix album of Mystic Cigarettes on Youth's Liquid Sound Design label.

With remixes by Youth, Gabriel Le Mar, Ajja, Bluetech, Braincell, DM-Theory, Eternal Basement, Jam El Mar, The Irresistible Force, The Delta, Kalumet, Koan, Jammin Unit, Living Light, Cosmic Orient, Backstage Gurus, JOEY, Latin Soldier, Thunder & Lightning and PsyTechProject.

The timeless beats of the original tracks are projected into the future, guaranteed to get you grooving to their eternally danceable speed and lush soundscapes. Saafi Brothers mystical journey began in 1996 when, inspired by his travels to India, Gabriel Le Mar started a collaboration with Frankfurt-based producers Michael Kohlbecker and Groovetitan to research unknown spiritual flight zones in exotic club sound environments.

After they had produced a couple of remixes, their friend Jam El Mar (Jam & Spoon) pushed them into making an album because of their unique Saafi sound: soul-wrenching deep ambient tunes, layered gently into trance, dubby bassy beats and softly progressive realms. The days and chaotic nights in the studio were long and full of enthusiasm as they deepened their roots of psychedelic ambient dub music.

They called it the secret of danceable speed, where in ambient tracks you experience feelings through emotive music, starting with deep intros and then merging into dubwise beats that get the tunes rocking.

 

Simon Ghahary signed them to BlueRoom Released and their debut Mystic Cigarettes quickly made its way into the hearts of music lovers, placing Saafi Brothers among the key artists of the electronic ambient scene with this now classic psydub album.

It was logical to see a packet of mystic cigarettes on the cover, designed by Simon Ghahary with the fantastic painting of Brahma. Through the magic of graphic design, Simon turned a CD case into a packet of Indian fags: think huge herbal cones rolled seamless into triptastic charras cartridges tipped with jasmine roaches. It was an album for eternity as well as a chill and dance album to space out to.

After 23 continuous years of travelling and producing music together, it's the Saafi Brothers deep friendship that keeps their rhythm beating, embodying the spirit of timeless music. They've retained their original love for chill out and dub music with deep and melodic soundscapes, while keeping their tribal techno roots as firm foundations for their musical masterpieces, consistently producing bass rich tunes to trip out to.   

 

Let us leave you this link to listen to 20 tracks digital bundle
Here are the different channels for listening to Mystic Cigarettes (Special Mixes of Classic Flavours)

https://saafibrothers.lnk.to

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10 tracks available on physical CD Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes (Special Mixes of Classic Flavours) at

 

amazon
Bandcamp

 

Big hug to Martin "Youth" Glover, Robin Triskele and the Liquid Sound Design team & to Simon Ghahary for the cover art work, and especially to our friends and fans who supported us for all those years!

https://ghahary.com/

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Please follow us on our artist page @ Bandcamp

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Honoured to play again at the mighty Ozora Festival 2022.

Huge thanks for the positive vibes in The Dome!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39DZccpvxg8

Saafi Brothers played a live set with deep tunes, layered into tranced and bassy beats. Performed on eclectic guitars, fx treatment, live overdubs and electronic percussions.

 

Lights out to the Ozorians. Keep the spirit!

 

https://ozorafestival.eu/

 

 

 

 

 

Nothing beats the fortuitous discovery of extraordinary art, especially if its music. When I first heard these super talented musicians in Frankfurt, mid-Nineties and their take on fusing dub, techno and electro it was a pure audio delight. We've had a remarkable friendship from that moment since. In the early days, we released two of their first albums, played at many festivals including the legendary Tribal Gathering and had fun with other projects in between. I've seen them all grow as great musicians and become honorable men. Back in the day, they were one of the most popular artists on Blue Room Released, and their music in my opinion, timeless.

So it was with great honor to be given the creative reigns for the first album remix collection artwork. What made the cover so special on it's the first release was the title. We definitely played on that theme, when making the original artwork. As well as combining the beautiful painted art of the masterful artist Brahma. We crafted a conceptual box of, Mystic Cigarettes and a trio of mysterious Saafi's that peddled them. Executed by Richie Burridge of Think, London and Art Directed by myself, it became a little gem in our musical crown.

For the remix album art, I meticulously copied the original painting, taking a little liberty with the features. This was to be a remix of the original art and I wanted to be able to change the textures and colors, painting them in. So rather than update in a modern style, it's been gilded and symbolically weathered, as a testament from its moment of being a solid gold classic back in the day. This sits on the color Blue (as in Room remix). It's still a cigar box of sorts, the internals this time inspired from the pages of the Illuminatus trilogy, Robert Anton Wilsons and Robert Sheas legendary Kallisti specials and not cigarettes (which I would not endorse).

Go find the Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes - Special Mixes of Classic Flavours.

(words by Simon Ghahary)

Thx Bro!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Quality Of Being One Remixes Part 2
on Liquid Sound Design/UK (LSD)

 

The Remixes of „The Quality Of Being One Remixes Part 2“ are a highly groovin' affair. Dynamic danceable mixes connected with the same spirit of the original tracks. Being on one path, the mixes are focused on the same melodic character and deepness, while shaping out the original sound signature of the remixers.


Remixes by Klopfgeister, Vlastur, Kuba, Koan, Backstage Gurus, Gabriel Le Mar, Roeth & Grey, Henning Richter, Erot and Carbon Based Lifeforms.

 

Please feel free to listen to the album sampler

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digital available at amazon, itunes, beatport, bandcamp

 

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Catch Me If You Can (Koan Remix)

Ta Tvam Asi (Kuba Remix)

We Can Make It (Klopfgeister Nightsoul Remix)

Summer Travel (Saafi Brothers Live At Ozora Remix)

Catch Me If You Can (Backstage Gurus Remix)

We Can Make It (Vlastur Remix)

Catch Me If You Can (Gabriel Le Mar Remix)

Hippies In Trance (Erot Remix)

Out On a Ride (Carbon Based Lifeforms Remix)

Catch Me If You Can (Roeth & Grey Remix)

Dub Nr. 9 (Henning Richter Remix)

 

Hope it finds and moves you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to Space Mountain Festival... A place where the musical vibrations are unlike any other. Let those dancing molecules start to find their groove... Full moon, live mixed studio sessions, DJ's, live acts, art, well being, healing... as one. We are all unique, and the music speaks.

https://www.spacemountainfestival.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please feel free to listen to

https://soundcloud.com/saafibrothers

 

 
For booking Saafi Brothers please feel free to contact:

Le Mar Booking
Annette  
mail  annette@le-mar.de

 

Saafi Brothers @ facebook

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Saafi Brothers @ instagram

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Infinity is reality
 
in a rolls in bombay
another indian digital day
I am a smartie on a party
talkin to a doctor from tibet
Yes you bet
good medicine he had
and then bang he went sad
it`s hard to touch – but clear to see
that freedom`s just a word
because infinity – is a reality
tea tea tea tea
 
in a rolls in bombay
another indian digital day
I am a doctor a smartie
talkin to vips on the party
Yes you bet – such a good medicine I had
and then bang bang they act mad
and all that it was about bout bout bout
was hard to touch – but clear to see
that infinity is a reality
the bars for you and me
infinity ia a reality

 

lyrics by George DIN for Live on the Roadblog

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Home of our beloved and wonderful Rikta

 

http://riktaart.de/

 

Rikta has played her Dilruba and Sitar on our albums:

 

The Quality Of Being One: The Passage

Live On The Roadblog: In The Eye Of The Storm and Ghosts In The Tree

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOS 6581 our Saafi Brothers Remix for Carbon Based Lifeforms out now on Leftfield Records

Remixes also from Hardfloor, Ajja and a special Life version from the electronica duo.

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Ghosts in the tree

everybody knows
ghosts in the tree 
they watch out
by your side
- in your dream
 
everybody knows
ghosts in the sea
they swim by your side
- when you play wild
 
everybody knows
when you fly
through the trees
ghosts in the bee
- save you from crazy
 
everybody knows
ghosts in the wind
will blow for you
- if you dare
 
everybody knows
ghosts in the night
will chase the wind
- if you want
 
everybody knows
ghosts in the house
they let you live
- if you give
 
everybody knows
running free
all around
to believe
- in the Sea
 
everybody knows
free - and
let we be
- and just see

 

lyrics by George DIN for Live on the Roadblog

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moving Crossroads from our album Live on the Roadblog is a highly groovin’ affair. Here the Saafi’s thoughts are pointing beyond the horizon and to the future.

"Moving Crossroads" has the power to touch our souls and is underpinned with a deep message. It’s all about the journey and setting off, being on the road and getting ready for the experiences that lie ahead.

Descriptively the original track has a relaxed atmosphere and the sounds are gliding over a lovely electronic soundscape.

The Moving Crossroads Remixes are focused on the same melodic character and deepness of the original track in combination with the individuality of each of the remixers sound signatures.

The remixes are pointing towards the dance floor and are ranging from Techno movers like the remixes of Fünf D, Gabriel Le Mar and Bidiol, while Groovetitan emphasizes an all out electro funkiness.

These mixes are built for the dancefloor whilst being connected with the same Saafi spirit and chillin’. All these sounds are aimed to stimulate mind and soul as well as the body.

Collaboration is the key as the remixers Fünf D, Gabriel Le Mar, Groovetitan and Bidiol are all individual sound projects from members within the Saafi Brothers core team.

We wish everyone to be safe and happy!

 

 

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Worldpeace and Love!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Originally released digitally on Iboga Records, Live on the Roadblog is the latest full-length by Saafi Brothers, comprised of longtime dubtech-nician Gabriel Le Mar and partners Groovetitan and Michael Kohlbecker, making its CD debut on the Novum sublabel of Carpe Sonum Records.

With Live on the Roadblog Saafi Brothers walk a deep line between ambientdub orientation and blissed out beats.

Luca Anzilotti, George DIN and Rikta join Gabriel Le Mar, Michael Kohlbecker and Groovetitan for the production.

Sleepless-faced on music Saafi Brothers digged deep into a series of "live recording sessions", rediscovering the emotional depth of "real-time created music" after a couple of live shows that fueled the idea of creating an entirely live recorded album. In a jammin´ good time it becomes more and more developing into something more meaningful, working with lyrics and create moments. To be there in the moment to fly towards our ideas.

The crossing line in this axis is the storytelling aspect that is reflected in the directional lyrics, based on poems by George DIN. It´s about to be off and to experience what there is to experience, being on the road and get a sense of freedom. Performed by Plug and Markie J. "Life on the Roadblog" becomes a selection of short stories where the true soundtrack of Saafi Brothers bounce into.

Finally an undisputed link in the album is the balance of machine language and organic live performance that creates the man-machine aspects of electronic music in their very own language - and on the other side the overall layer is linked to Dub music, in style as a production technique and electronic music that mixes up with electro-acoustic live performance - all in real-time and without auto-sync.

The result is the organic flow and deepness in Live on the Roadblog, linking the message like secret friends on the road.

 

From deep atmospheric to pushing and always Dub inspired

 

Our album Live on The Roadblog is released on CD

Please feel free to order from Bandcamp (limited edition) - Label: Carpe Sonum Novum/US

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Live on the Roadblog is about doing our first journeys, being on the road and moving crosscroads. No looking back, leaving things behind and running free. Walking the highway towards the big unknown with all good or dark it could bring. Every place that we came has its moment. With all the atmospheres and images in our heads, Saafi Brothers listen closer and reflective in their vision and interact in their strong musical relationship.

For Live on the Roadblog the brotherhood came together in a special live recording room of "the Bunker" in Frankfurt and we connected our individual set-ups to one sound-system, jamming live, developing ideas and recording them constantly.

"The result was a numerous of tracks of which we compiled a bunch of the strongest appealing tunes and formed them in the studio to an intense and deep listening experience journey. An exciting journey on our way to a revealing discovery, that has helped us grow and at the same time rewarding." (Gabriel Le Mar)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Live on the Roadblog includes a gorgeous 8-page "travelogue"-style booklet designed by Simon Ghahary, thx bro!

https://ghahary.com/

Performing artists:
Gabriel Le Mar: Guitars, electric bass, fx + dub mixing
Michael Kohlbecker: keyboards & synthesizers
Petro Nikolaidis (Groovetitan): drums & percussion, modular-synth programmings
Luca Anzilotti: sample-treatments, sfx, synth-programmings
Rikta Schaden: Dilruba & other indian instruments
George DIN: lyrics
Plug and Markie J: on vocals

 

 

Let us invite you to listen to:

 

Beatport
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Bandcamp
Youtube music

Spotify

 

Hope our ideas will travel....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our mystical journey began 1997 in England and we listened to Mystic Cigarettes, deepened in our roots of psychedelic ambient dub music. It was logical to see a packet of mystic cigarettes on the cover of our first album, designed by Simon Ghahary and a fantastic artwork by Brahma. At that time Simon was the A&R manager for BlueRoomReleased/UK; he signed us and became a close friend.

His design is shaping our covers and views even today. Since then Saafi Brothers has become nicely spacious. What began as a remix-project for german bands like Camouflage and die Fantastischen Vier in a small studio in pretty chaotic nights, was full of enthusiasm. Today we produce in two studios here in Frankfurt and as a real band project - and with the same enthusiasm.

 

True, in this 25 years we also learned something about travelling and the spirit of timeless beauty, but above all it is our friendship that keeps the rhythm beating. We retained our love for Chillout and Dub with deep and melodic soundscapes - although we are also attracted to Techno in our solo-projects.

 

To be in a band playing at festivals were definitely highlights. Ozora, Sziget, Tribal Gathering, Roskilde, Psy-Fi, great new adventures. Music and production as our purpose in life. And truly a privilege. Something, that we want to share again and again. With you.
 
In that sense we look forward to an exciting jubilee year in 2023 with various activities ahead of us and we are thankful more than once for the wonderful journey.

 

"Although one might assume that the trance-tripping fraternity smoked hash, the herbal influence was rarely explicit except in recordings such as Mystic Cigarettes by the Saafi Brothers, described on one web site as “a semi-chill album for getting stoned to.”

http://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2005/04/14/4039

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...and when the party is over, there's a dream of the next mover...

hope you enjoy our Live-Set at Ozora Festival 2015 at the Chill Out Dome

 

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GET DEEP

If you are addicted to definitions, Saafi Brothers are the best therapy to get clean again. There is no other project in electronic music business which was / is able to found successfully a new Sound beyond of all known classifications like Michael Kohlbecker and Gabriel le Mar from Frankfurt. The debut LP Mystic Cigarettes and the following second mystic LP Midnight's Children reached cultstatus worldwide and were responsible for a new often copied sound. Liquid Beach the third Longplayer of the Saafi Brothers will follow that way even with more innovative elements and deepness. Their 3rd album Liquid Beach is presenting a big variety of music, smooth and suspended, nearly without gravitiation ambientsounds, relaxed pulsetating grooves and very mystic harmonies which let you dance and dream. "Danceable Listening Music" is the name of this secret. Powerfull Chilling, tension and relaxation - the oil which is needed for the motor of those two creative producers from Frankfurt Kohlbecker and Le Mar.




....A lot of the material here has a "deceptive sense of duality". On one had, the music would be ideal for "chilling out at home" - or tripping depending on your poison. At the same time, there's enough hustle happening that the material is eminently danceable. That juxtapose is at work on a cut like "Sunchild," a tribal number with an enveloping density but persistent and chugging beat. Again on "Lovin' Music," with its deeply twisted vocals and great percussion, and the title album track, Liquid Beach. The album is rounded off with two different mixes of the morning trance-tinged "Metapop." Liquid Beach is a fantastic destination boasting a soundtrack of trance, dub, downtempo, dance and "sun-kissed psychedelics"......  365mag.com 
 

 

...The Saafi Brothers make a hybrid of ambient, dub, house, and trance. And within these "softly progressive" realms, the Saafi Brothers have previously made some smooth-listening gems of chill-out. In 1997, their album Mystic Cigarettes delved into ambience and tranced beats that was fascinating, if not attuned to its time, what in the early '90s would have been somewhere in the realm of ambient house, of Café del Mar compilations, The Orb and The KLF's Chill Out...  Stylus Mag

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Gabriel Le Mar" und "Michael Kohlbecker" - wenige Künstler können auf eine so große Anzahl verschiedenster Projekte verweisen, von denen auch noch dermaßen viele wegweisend sind... Oft kopiert, oft zitiert, nie erreicht - die Rede ist natürlich von den "Saafi Brothers"...Mit ihrem Debüt "Mystic Cigarettes" gelang Ihnen 1997 der ganz grosse Wurf direkt in die Herzen der Listening-, Goa- und Trance-Fans weltweit. Schnell war die Rede von einem der größten Klassiker.....  subculture (interview)

....Die Augen gerötet und auf endlos gestellt, auch mit dem dritten Album Liquid Beach liefern Le Mar und Kohlbecker zehn neue Volltreffer in Chillout-Kontor. Es blubbert, fließt, schwebt und wabert an allen (nicht vorhandenen) Ecken und Enden. Dabei reduziert sich das Album keineswegs auf reine ambiente Watte-Texturen, sondern gewinnt - Saafi-typisch - dank trippig pulsierender Beats, windiger Hooks, aufleuchtender 303-Spielereien und teilweise handgespielter Gitarren und Percussions immer wieder an Fahrt und Kontur....Die Saafis bleiben der Garant für nach "innen gerichtete Ekstasen".  Raveline (heavy rotation)

....Das Konzept der chilligen Sounds und sanften Beats hat sich bewährt, warum also das winning Team changen? Eben. Wie gehabt flunscht der Rhythmus und schmuften die Melodien. Wie, dir sagen diese Verben nix? Um die Sound-Tüfteleien der Herren Kohlbecker und Le Mar zu beschreiben, muss man tief im Satzkonstruktions-Baukasten kruschteln. Ambient, House, Trance, Goa, Techno, Downbeat sind nur leere Worthülsen, denn die Saafi Brothers schweben darüber..... laut.de

 

 

 

 

 

 

GET GOING

After a long tour with numerous live and dj sets in clubs and at festivals (a.o. Tribal Gathering/UK, Roskilde/DK) the Saafis returned to the studio in early 2000 and by the end of that year delivered their 2nd longplayer on Blue Room Released, Midnight´s Children. The album represented another perfect demonstration of the Saafi-style made up of the will to experiment and a feeling for the combination of different influences between west and east.
The extracted 12" "Into Deep" Pt. 1+2 found the way into many record bags of club- and radio-djs all over Europe, the b-side track "Not Fade Away" featured guest producer Mike Maguire from british project Juno Reactor. 



....After the debut "Mystic Cigarettes" their second  album "Midnight's Children" again is a futuristic pleasure: The everflowing modulating sound structures in such perfect shape from one mood to another, that listening to the 72 minute long CD for someone who engages fully on the artificial music becomes a really short stay auditory journey. Dub, Ambient, Techno and again between shining through ethno elements form flawless to composed  arrangements ...... revolution in silence.... www.3sat.de

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mystic Cigarettes  (3xLP vinyl, CD, digital)
Release:  1997
Label:  Blue Room Released/ UK
Mastered by: Kevin Metcalf
Painting by Brahma
Cover Design: Think 1

Internal Code Error (CD)
Release:  1997
Label:  Blue Room Released/ UK
Mastered by: Kevin Metcalf
Remixes by X-Dream, Bandulu, Jammin' Unit
Cover Design: Simon Ghahary

 

Internal.Code.Error Remixes (12" vinyl)
Release:  1997
Label:  Blue Room Released/ UK
Mastered by: Kevin Metcalf
Remixes by Bandulu and Jammin' Unit

Internal Code Error (12" vinyl)
Release:  1997
Label:  Blue Room Released/ UK
Mastered by: Kevin Metcalf
Remix by X-Dream
Cover Design: Simon Ghahary

The Deep Part 1 / Not Fade Away (12" vinyl)
Release:  1999
Label:  Blue Room Released/UK
co-written by Mike Maguire

Mastered by: Kevin Metcalf

 

Midnight's Children  (2xLP vinyl, CD, digital)
Release:  2000
Label:  Blue Room Released/US
Mastered by: Kevin Metcalf
Photography by Rick Guest
Cover Design: Think 1

Liquid Beach  (2xLP vinyl, CD, digital)
Release:  2003
Label:  Secret Live Recordings/EFA
Cover Design: Everfresh Design

Supernatural  (CD, digital)
Release:  2007
Label:  Zyx Music
Mastered by: Ulf Horbelt
Cover Image: Corbis Motion

 

 

Live on the Roadblog (CD, digital)
Release:  2014/2015
Label:  Iboga Records/ DK (digital)
Label: Carpe Sonum Novum/ US (CD)
Mastered by: Perla Audio
Cover Design: Simon Ghahary

 

 

Moving Crossroads (Remixes) (digital)
Release:  2015
Label:  LMP (digital)
Mastered by: Perla Audio
Cover Design: Simon Ghahary

Remixes by Fünf D, Gabriel Le Mar, Bidiol and Groovetitan

 

 

The Quality of Being One (Remixes I) (digital)
Release:  2017
Label:  Liquid Sound Design/UK (digital)

Mastered by Jamie Grashion at Meridian Studios/UK
Cover Design: Simon Ghahary

Remixes by Tripswitch, Youth, Cosmic Trigger and lastly from Saafi Brothers very own Gabriel Le Mar

 

 

The Quality of Being One (CD, digital)
Release:  2017
Label:  Liquid Sound Design/UK (digital)
Mastered by: Perla Audio
Cover Design: Simon Ghahary

 

 

The Quality of Being One (Remixes II) (digital)
Release:  2018
Label:  Liquid Sound Design/UK (digital)
Cover Design: Simon Ghahary

Mastered by Jamie Grashion at Meridian Studio/UK

Remixes by Klopfgeister, Vlastur, Kuba, Koan, Backstage Gurus, Gabriel Le Mar, Roeth & Grey, Henning Richter, Erot and Carbon Based Lifeforms

 

 

Mystic Cigarettes (special Mixes of Classic Flavours) (CD, vinyl, digital)
Release:  2019
Label:  Liquid Sound Design/UK
Mastered by: Perla Audio
Painting by Brahma
Cover Design: Simon Ghahary

Remixes by Youth, Gabriel Le Mar, Ajja, Bluetech, Braincell, DM-Theory, Eternal Basement, Jam El Mar, The Irresistible Force, The Delta, Kalumet, Koan, Jammin Unit, Living Light, Cosmic Orient, Backstage Gurus, JOEY, Latin Soldier, Thunder & Lightning and PsyTechProject.

 

 

Make Pictures With The Sound (CD, digital)

Release:  2022
Label:  Liquid Sound Design/UK
Mastered by: Perla Audio
Cover Design: Simon Ghahary

https://saafibrothers.bandcamp.com/album/saafi-brothers-make-pictures-with-the-sound

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FAR BEYOND 

The Saafi Brothers debut Mystic Cigarettes was released in 1997 on the well known british label "Blue Room Released". With the internationally successful and today "classic album" the project consisting of Frankfurt/Germany based producers Gabriel Le Mar, Alex Azary and Michael Kohlbecker immediately placed itself among the first row of the ambient and electronic scene. Tracks from the album have been released on numerous compilations, the extracted 12" "Internal.Code.Error.930" featured a remix by british techno/dub project Bandulu and became a club hit.                                        

 
....Here, through the magic of graphic design, they turn a CD case into a packet of Indian fags. Fat ones. Think huge herbal cones rolled seamless into triptastic charras cartridges tipped with jasmine roaches. You inhale, and you float. Hey. Load this album into its CD socket and the effect is much the same.....serve up a toke spectacular including stand-put pulsating dreamers "Sweet Sirenes, "Together in Silence", "Supervision", "Internal Code Error" and the oddly named, yet inpeccably produced "2046". A musical hologram best appreciated in orbit...  Muzik Magazine 12.97

Soul wrenching deep and bassy ambient tunes that take a while to reach you but really grip you when they do. "Sweet Sirenes" starts off the voyage with bopping drums over a wide soundscape that increase in pace to reach an enfolding crescendo. "On Air" gets down and dubby as does the ample and floating "2046" both with a subtile but effective sprinkling of "classical Indian Vibers". "Together in Silence" is my favourite. Saafi Brothers get deeper into "low-down dub" and add drum trills that get the tune rocking only to space out, off the planet once again... Wax 11.97

 

 

 

 

TAKE THEM HIGHER

Dub it or not. These days you can get Saafi Brothers in different styles and packages.

In a Pumping style Saafi Brothers spin a lot of his own "electronic dubby material" - adding live overdubs and visuals. Their live- and dj- sets cover a wide spectrum of electronic music: they will take us on a trip through a variety of 4-2-the-floor-styles from "deep trancey TechHouse" to energetic "soulful Techno", merging their own productions with their DJ selection into one mix. It combines energized titles from the album "Supernatural" and Saafi alltime favorites. The Rest of the evening is pushed and enlightened by new energetic DJ-Sets of Michael and Gabriel performed on the decks and with "Ableton Live Software".

In an ambient dub style Saafi Brothers play ambient and dub as well as leftfield and electronic sounds. So far, they has played at huge festivals like Tribal Gathering/UK, Roskilde/DK, Arvika Festival/SW, Vision/CH, Sziget/HU, Hadra/FR, Ozora/HU, Psy-Fi/FR or Summer Jam and had been guests in many clubs around the globe.


Booking contact: annette(at)le-mar.de

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2021 Youth & Gaudi: Dropping The Pressure (Saafi Brothers remix) Liquid Sound Design/UK

Deep hypnotic Psydub.

 

2019 Bluetech: Crystalline Forms (Saafi Brothers remix) Liquid Sound Design/UK

An acid tinged dub-techno remix.

 

2016 Carbon Based Lifeforms: MOS 6581 (Saafi Brothers remix) Leftfield Records

Saafi Brothers remixed MOS 6581 from CBL's mystic debut album Hydroponic Garden.

 

2016 Suns of Arqa: Sadrayama (Saafi Brothers remix), Liquid Sound Design/UK.

The remix is dropping deep and atmospheric into an eastern dub.

 

2015 X-Dream: Freak (Saafi Brothers remix) for the remixalbum on Flying Rhino/UK

In the beginning of Saafi Brothers, X-Dream did a great remix of one of their first tracks and supported the project with an excellent production and progressive thinking of how to re-shape the "internal code error" track. Now it`s time to give something back. 

2000 KoxBox: Crunchy Moles (Saafi Brothers remix), LiquidAudioSoundz
with a lot of twisted fx and dubby beats - the remix of "A Major Problem in Australia" as known as "Crunchy Moles" from KoxBox album "The Great Unkown".

1999 Jam & Spoon: Stella (Saafi Brothers remix), SonyMusic
The Single called "Stella 1999-1992 (How Stella Got Her Groove Back)" well remixed by Westbam, Tall Paul and Saafi Brothers.

1997 Anne Clark: Nida (Saafi Brothers remix),  Sony/Columbia
Second treatment for Anne Clark`s x-cellent tune Nida.

1995 B-Zet feat. Darlesia: Caught Within (Saafi Brothers Treatment), Eye-Q Records
Salinas-style stoned-n-mello e-lectronix. Special 12" promo-release was limited to one thousand copies only and sent to one thousand selected people by Eye-Q Records.

1995 C.K.B. feat. Bob Marley: Sun Is Shining (Weed Selectors remix), BMG
Mixed by Michael Kohlbecker, Reverend, George DIN and Gabriel Le Mar - informal dub collective merging the Saafi Brothers & Serious Dropout possie in a deep, dubby, trancey mix. Sun is shining - the weather is sweet…"great honour to work with Bob`s vocals - one of our favourite Bob tunes anyway - we treated the original Trojan release version - one love!"

1995 Die Fantastischen 4: Sie Ist Weg (Saafi Brothers remix), Sony /Columbia
When the guys from Fanta 4 listened to the Aural Float remix of Camouflage's "Bad News" they took the decision to get in touch with that sound and asked for a remix of their new single "Sie ist weg". That release made it multiple-platinum in the charts of all german speaking countries and marks the beginning of the core Saafi Brothers production team with Gabriel Le Mar and Michael Kohlbecker. The Saafi Brothers remix is in a minimalistic-mello-holographic form.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saafi Brothers video mix

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KEEP THE PROMISE

Many stories must stay unmentioned at this point leaving an open space for future creation. Being productive and live-experienced artists since more than a decade Saafi Brothers productions and live-appearances continue.

For dates please take a look under BOOKINGS.

Music and ideas and it will always go on...

 

Moments of Clarity

 

I´ve found a place
so beautiful
I am watching the moon
bright and almost full
 
I am happy
that`s my program
 
let the gods express themselves
through me or let them be
any other category
I have found a place to live
 
in the shades of chimeys
´pon the rooftop
in the presence of whatever will come
 
all I have is my backpack
nothing belongs to me
this is freedom

the world goes on
moments of clarity
here for everyone, for everyone