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Far from the folklore governed by the binary kicks of the current electro-oriental music, Keyvane Alinaghi invests the alias of Hassan K. to transgress a Persian music with shifting borders. Bidouilleur, fervent defender of the free and open source culture, DIY artist all ground... for more than 10 years, the one man band mixes without limits Persian rituals and new technologies, occident and orient, surf music and bellydance, swing and cybermetal, film music and harsh noise... The multi-instrumentalist musician is a traditionalist who doesn't play with folklore, but goes to seek the essence of a thousand year old culture in order to give it a second breath without ever deteriorating it.

Composed without samples, note by note, click by click like a Benedictine monk (Ishraq?), each album produced is an initiatory passage, a theosophical stage which, in the narration, echoes the Iranian spiritual chivalry. To finalize this path, the musician constantly questions the live restitution of an electronic piece thought in studio. Hassan K. works his tools, diverts or increases the traditional oriental instruments (electric setar, sensors, robotized santoor) not to linger in the virtual and to involve the public in a very energetic live, at the limit of the trance.

In parallel to his work as a teacher, Keyvane Alinaghi has performed the Hassan K. project more than 300 times throughout the EU, US, Japan, North Africa, Turkey, Indonesia ... represented France at the Euronoize (Eurovision of alternative music in London), participated in the great film music festival
TimeZone in Bari (initiated by Gianluigi Trevisi and Ennio Morricone), gives conferences on electro-acoustic music and animates workshops on sound design and digital lutherie.