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The Great Game was founded by Mounzer Sarraf, a Belgian / Lebanese composer. The first compositions were played on the streets of Glasgow with Martin Fell on Saxophone.The personnel of the band is from all over Europe, the Middle East and the US.The band is a democratic entity and the compositions are influenced by each member's mastery of their own instrument.

The Great Game plays a style that could be called New World Music. Though it does not fit this category exactly, Mounzer thinks the style needs a new framework. When we speak of world music, we think of a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the world, including traditional music, nontraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition intermingle. World music's inclusive nature and elasticity as a musical category pose obstacles to a universal definition, but its ethic of interest. On the other hand it seems like world music has been frozen in time for many years and the evolution of music as not. Can we not say today that musical styles such as Blues, Jazz, Rock, Latin American, Eastern European Fusions and even Metal should be considered ethnic of interest. If so, The Great Game certainly is World Music