Quadrant  Khan from Macelleria

Quadrant Khan aka Shumon Khan has spent the last 15 years building musical roots through the foundations of himself, family roots, heritage, and culture. Starting from an early age of playing Trombone and Guitar, merged his music influence into the electronic music genre in the mid 90’s when he was a part of the Plastic Puppet Motive promotional group in Saskatoon through volunteering, performance art and dj culture.

Since 1999, Quadrant Khan (under the name Chakra Khan) has been performing electronic music throughout the prairie province and eastern Canada, had a monthly column in Toronto based magazine ‘Tribe’ writing the “Flatlands” column, focusing on prairie nightlife, ran an online radio show “Girth & Chug” on the Club246 web site, and had weekly residence in nightclubs and venues in Saskatoon. In early 2007 Shumon teamed up with Saskatoon Singer/Songwriter Brent Morton aka Funeral Songs/Dumb & Bell Tower.

“Funeral songs is born out of musical isolation and frustration with collaboration. It is musical journal, darkly written, that mixes electronic with acoustic, melodic with harmonic, and psychedelic with rhythmic. Quadrant khan brings turntablism and glitched out sythn together making an intelligent hybrid of electronic dance floor oriented music. Together, Funeral songs & Quadrant Khan – a.k.a. Brent Morton and Shumon khan—create ambient, harmonic electro-spaces that float over foundations of driving, danceable beats. the high-energy combination of programming and loops with live drums, guitar, vocals, turntables, and synth makes FS & QK shows sonically and visually fresh. Working together since January, 2007, they have released Root Circuitous, a 13-track document of joint musical endeavors.”

In the several months of the teamed project, they made their mark fast by playing in many venues in Saskatoon and were also a featured act at the Connect Electronic Music Festival (www.connectfestival.ca). Post collaboration, Quadrant Khan has been actively playing solo shows throughout Saskatchewan, recorded an 11 track album “The Coraled Life” , featured in the September 2009 season premiere and 2011 season of Shaw Cable’s “Stripped Down” TV Show, and his music was presented at the 2009 Western Canadian Music Awards/Conference in Brandon MB. In 2010, he teamed up with Saskatoon band We Were Lovers (www.myspace.com/wewereloversmusic) and produced a remix of “Wildfire” available on their EP. With that release, both Quadrant Khan and We Were Lovers went on a 15 date eastern Canadian tour to promote the EP.

In March/April 2011 Quadrant Khan made his mark on an Italian & Austrian tour, working with the artists from the Flavorite Record Label (www.flavoritemusic.com) based out of Graz, Austria and the Macelleria Promotion group based in Milan, Italy.

Currently, Quadrant Khan has a weekly residency at the 6Twelve lounge (Saskatoon, SK, Canada), is a resident for the Macelleria House group (Milan, Italy).