Mus­cat based Cor­re­spon­dent Anir­ban Ray work­ing for the Mus­cat dai­ly news­pa­per «Mus­cat Dai­ly» met the Swiss musi­cians duo Dust of Soul at their con­cert at Grand Hyatt Mus­cat Hotel back in Octo­ber 2017. Renown Ray is not only a fan­tas­tic writer, he is also a rais­ing star in the film mak­ing and film direct­ing field. This is how the Swiss duo and Ray met again in March 2018: a joint short film project was laid out to give anoth­er view of how artists per­ceive the Sul­tanate of Oman and how they respond with cre­ativ­i­ty. Specif­i­cal­ly the Swiss duo has dri­ven by a vivid inspi­ra­tion com­ing from the Ara­bi­an king­dom ever since their first trip to Muscat.

On their very first days an entire song was writ­ten by Dust of Soul-singer & com­pos­er Sask­ia Stäu­ble, known as Dusty. «The Col­or of Oman is Love» is the musi­cal piece called, ready to set a sign for a bridge through the arts. The pow­er of music demon­strates the con­nec­tion between Switzer­land to Oman. In the arti­cle Ray is telling about the future ini­tia­tives of the project: the duo is plan­ning on record­ing the song with as many musi­cians as pos­si­ble, all locals from Oman. A mak­ing of video will show the col­lab­o­ra­tion of the nations and the inter­ac­tions between musi­cians from dif­fer­ent nation­al­i­ties, from dif­fer­ent cul­tures and back­ground, how ama­teurs and pros work togeth­er as human beings. The ini­tia­tive is part of the mes­sage «Human­i­ty First» Dust of Soul car­ries out into the world. Stay tuned for more infor­ma­tion to fol­low very soon.

• Titel Pho­tog­ra­phy by Lub­na Al Balushi 
• News­pa­per arti­cle by cor­re­spon­dent Anir­ban Ray as of 22 April 2018
• Text by Dust of Soul | Michael Odermatt