“Le Soleil” places Afghan rubab and dotar against a pop framework tinged with surrealism, the Paris-based Ko Shin Moon steering traditional string timbres into melodic arcs with a faintly Beatles-like lilt. Sung in French, the song parallels the movements of love with the cycles of nature, concluding with a refrain — Le soleil et la nuit se fondent dans le miroir — that reflects on the contradictions shaping identity.

Ko Shin Moon began in 2017, founded by Axel Moon and Niko Shin after Moon’s four-year journey in India collecting folk instruments. From their Paris base, the duo combines Eastern string traditions with synthesisers and drum machines, drawing on psychedelia, space disco, and cold wave. Their live sets have travelled across Europe, North Africa, the Levant, and Canada, translating studio experimentations into immersive performances.

Issued on Total Totem Records and Gulbaba Records, “Le Soleil” extends Ko Shin Moon’s catalogue of cross-cultural experiments, linking the Afghan rubab and dotar to a lineage that includes Haruomi Hosono’s exotica, Ilaayarajan’s film scores, and the electronics of Patrick Cowley.

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