Alternative World Fusion Is Coming To DC This Summer!

Online, July 10, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Washington, D.C. -- The New York based band Khaled will be performing at Bus Boys and Poets on August 19th to celebrate the release of their second album "The Rabbit Hole." If a Middle Eastern melody had a polygamist relationship with Flamenco and Rock'n Roll it would give birth to this LP. The band is composed of Khaled Dajani, guitarist and vocal lead, and Fred Vasaturo, drummer and percussionist.

The diversity of songs range from a lovestruck "Starry Night" to a twisted but faintly hopeful "Rabbit Hole" to a strongly anti-war message in "The Note." The changes in melody and subject are not lacking purpose or bite. In fact, the nine songs build to a haunting climax, winding their way through love, loneliness, the fine line between the two and finally the greater tragedies of mankind. Of the record, Khaled says, "This album represents different moods for the schizophrenic in all of us. It talks about love, fear, depression, frustration, and the hopefulness of a desperate romantic."

Dajani is a well respected guitarist who taught himself how to play while living in Saudi Arabia. Once he entered high school, and the realm of painful adolescent trysts, he became a writer as well. "I love writing. It's so much fun playing with words and their timing. I never physically write down the music. I play it repeatedly as if beating it into my memory. Once I get the feeling of the music, I write the words to tell its story."

Vasaturo studies at the Collective School of Music in New York City under the likes of Jason Gianni, Ian Froman and Adriano Santos. Although he is from Staten Island, Vasaturo embraces grooves such as the Brazilian Samba, Baio, the Afro-Cuban Songo and Bembe. Of their CD, Fred says, "I feel like it's releasing a lion to the wild, out of captivity. Alternative World Fusion is the future of the music industry. In this state of evolution, everything is being globalized."

The Rabbit Hole can be purchased at online retailers such as CD Baby, ITunes and Napster. To hear the band live visit Bus Boys and Poets at 1025 5th Street NW at 9 p.m. on August 19, 2010. For more information on the band and upcoming shows, visit khaledis.me.