When two people who had met and studied music in Leeds, Giuliano Modarelli and Al MacSween, decided to form a band around eight years ago, they had a clear objective in mind -- to use art as a medium of protest. They consequently researched various styles of protest music and collaborated with artistes from different ethnicities in the multi-cultural British city, looking for a sound that could define their purpose. That search ultimately ended in a form of improvisational music encapsulating diverse influences, which was in line with the duo's common abhorrence for the concept of cultural purity.

Kefaya performing live