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A Dreamer & a Burner

Special K (Mohammed Kamal - 1985) born and raised in Lattakia, Syria only moving to to Dubai in 2011. He has played a major rule in the underground scene in the region from initiating the very first musical gatherings of their kind in Syria in 2003 and bringing it all the way to Dubai in 2013 by Co-founding (Desert Dream Community). This community was inspired by the burning man and other festivals of its kind. He carried out this vision deep in the desert away from the hustle and bustle of the city and in between the dunes. With time he became the key player in the city focused on electronic music festivals, he created and collaborated with most successful festivals (Desert Dream - Elements - Kaynouna- Eunoia- Sandance..... etc.) around Middle East (UAE - Lebanon- Egypt - Jordan - Turkey - KSA - India)

Musically, Special K has always been a pioneer searching and spreading knowledge of the most innovative trends on electronic music, applying a meticulous musical choice on his sets, crossing styles of House and Techno music, traveling from Oriental / Downtempo, Organic house to Progressive/ Melodic rhythm cause he goes with the flow and has on occasion gone on to play for 24hrs straight, although always with surprising with a complex musical selection. Very rhythmic, full of groove and energy.

He mostly performed during events/ festivals which he either created from the ground up or participated in to assist the organizers. He preferred to be behind the scene which helped him be more creative till the pandemic (Covid-19) showed up , so he is one of the 1st who started live streaming through Desert Dream channel along with most talented local & international Djs.
From that day he decided to adapt and share his talent with the world, so he complete what he use to do with Desert Dream ( talent’s hunter ) and found Trinity Festival along with Hot Air Balloon festival & Yalla Festival which already did few trial and ready to be published once the restrictions are gone. 
He streamed for many entities for a human rights, Africa Children. As he did some live streams for HAB festival from the sky (Hot air balloon), Cafe De Anatolia from the desert and working on a projects.

“IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN DO IT”

A self-taught pianist from the age of 7, Dustin O’Halloran’s personal histories give us some clue to the thickly-woven tapestries of his music: he has lived in LA (where he studied art at Santa Monica College and formed the much-adored Devics with Sara Lov), Italy (in the depths of rural Emilia Romagna) and Berlin. His arresting, heartbreaking music is as much an elegant exercise in nuance and grace as it is a pure, intuitive, personal expression – and here is where we see some explanation into Dustin’s quiet rise to notoriety and his continued ascension.



Having gained serious recognition with his stunning score to Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette (which sits neatly alongside his soundtrack work for William Olsen’s An American Affair (2010) and Drake Doremus’ Sundance-winning Like Crazy (2011),



Dustin has quickly become one of the most recogniseable names in the broad-reaching “post-classical” field, a definition of the genre rather than vice-versa. Now sitting alongside peers and friends Max Richter, Hauschka and Johann Johannsson (who, incidentally, aided Dustin in mixing his newest album) on FatCat’s dedicated orchestral imprint 130701, new album Lumiere is a glowing addition to O’Halloran’s musical canon, at once an amalgamation of everything that his music has been leading up to, and an unprecedented step forwards in terms of timbral palette and harmony. Featuring NYC’s ACME Quartet, Stars Of The Lid’s Adam Wiltzie and prodigious young composer Peter Broderick among the guest musicians, the scale of Lumiere is expansive: “it made me realize how important it is to find players that truly understand what you do and to create a language with them,” writes Dustin.



Dustin’s rock background - primarily with Bella Union’s “dream-pop” outfit Devics – has yielded an unassuming, perceptive approach to composing modern classical pieces. Inspired by, among others, Arvo Part,  Philip Glass, Hans Otte, John Luther Adams, Olivier Messiaen, Ennio Morricone, Gavin Bryars, there is no lack of articulation or academic musicality in Dustin’s work, but there is also none of the aloofness or detachment that is so readily perceived around contemporary classical music. This can perhaps be attributed to the environments in which Dustin has worked - Lumiere is full of those rare elements of life shared by both vibrant cities and lush countrysides: colour, both organic and rich, sensorial intrigue and a deep awareness of space. Or perhaps it is a product of Dustin’s synaesthesia, a condition he first noticed around the time of his performance at New York’s Guggenheim Museum for their Kandisnky retrospective and 50th anniversary gala. Able to visualize his compositions as vividly as a painter might see his own work, Dustin’s expressiveness is beyond compare.



Lumiere will be Dustin’s third solo full-length, following Bella Union albums released in 2004 and 2006 respectively (Piano Solos vol. 1 and Piano Solos vol. 2). These two records were originally opportunity for Dustin to express a non-Devics creative streak: gently and privately pieced together piano suites written and recorded on a beautifully-restored 1920’s Sabel piano in his Italian farmhouse. The compositions, however, gradually grew into fully-formed solo pieces as Dustin’s ambitions and designs developed. The path, of course, would eventually lead him to Lumiere’s majestic, swooning ensemble arrangements and a focus-shift away from the piano as his work’s primary timbre without losing any of the affection for the instrument that bore his first two records.



A sublime solo live album - entitled Vorleben – will be released by FatCat / 130701 in June.

hałabuda – zespół muzyczny. Grają piosenki skomponowane przez li­de­ra for­ma­cji. Pio­sen­ki o Niej i o Nim. Cza­sa­mi o ich sła­boś­ciach. Szczel­nie wy­peł­nia­ją mu­zycz­ną przest­rzeń swo­je­go ży­cia. Nie uda­ją, bo nie po­tra­fią. Gra­ją na lu­do­wo ła­ma­ne przez dże­zo­wo, jak wyj­dzie. Rów­nież z sym­pa­tią do ¾. Ktoś po­słu­chał i po­wie­dział, że nie jest to na pewno blues, ale trud­no zgo­dzić się z kimś, ko­go imię za­czy­na się na F.
W swo­ich te­le­fo­nach za­pi­sa­li do sie­bie nu­me­ry i cza­sa­mi dzwo­nią, aczkol­wiek częś­ciej do siebie pi­szą. By­wa tak, że się spo­ty­ka­ją. Lu­bią to.
Za spra­wą II roz­bio­ru Pols­ki, kil­ka słów zna­ją w ję­zy­ku nie­miec­kim. 
Występują w składzie:

Andrzej Hałabuda - śpiewa i gra na gitarze
Łukasz Perek - fortepian
Wojtek Maziakowski - gitara basowa
Paweł "Ostry" Ostrowski - perkusja

Nakładem duńskiego wydawnictwa Hand Production, w 2014 wydali swoją debiutancką płytę „pomiędzy”.

e-mail: info@halabuda.pl
tel. 667 458 495

Music written/arranged/performed/recorded/mastered by Nikolas Nitis.
All music has been recorded live without any edits etc excluding some collaborations with other musicians.
Copyright 2003-2025 NikolasNitisMusic.
All rights belong to Nikolas Nitis and son RNW Nitis.

Some music written/performed by Escafander (Alicja Bodnar/Nikolas Nitis)
Copyright 2016-2025 EscafanderMusic.

All collaborations/contributions by other musicians are mentioned in each track. 

Some artwork by Kat.
Thank you so much!

Artwork and photos by Nikolas Nitis.

This page contains unreleased material, new and old recordings, phone recordings etc. 

Also some beautiful recordings/rehearsals with Kat, Escafander and Absinthial. 

Thank you for listening to the music. 
NN.

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