Farhot Kabul Fire Vol. 2

Farhot has released his new album 'Kabul Fire Vol. 2' (the follow up to 2013's 'Kabul Fire Vol 1'), out now through his own label Kabul Fire Records with Caroline Australia.

This record traverses the geography between Farhot's hometown in Germany and his birthplace in Kabul, Afghanistan. Speaking with Acclaim Magazine, Farhot explains:

"When it was time for 'Vol 2' I had to do some homework. I was thinking of the title Kabul Fire, and I thought, 'I need to make a connection to the country', I watched films and listened to the music and checked out art from Afghanistan, and what I found was just incredible to me and very inspiring, so I dug deeper." 

The record has received hefty radio support across the country, including airplay on Triple R, PBS, 4ZZZ, FBi, Edge and Double J.

From folk songs to speeches, most notably from 1980's Afghan freedom fighter, Ahmad Shah Mousoud on the song 'Yak Sher', Farhot managed to skip the litany sometimes associated with beats-based music, and instead weave a colourful tapestry touching on complex personal identity but also Afghan national history. "It was very much about reconnecting with the country I was born in," he says."

Farhot has spoken about the cultural changes he experienced as a child, fleeing war ravaged Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s, resettling with his family in Germany.