Results for "Mazen Kerbaj"

Mazen Kerbaj

A Decent Run

By Giancarlo Nino Locatelli

Label: We Insist! Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Situations; Poetry; In Memoriam L. W.; Vita Cortese Tara; Sign of Time; Warm Autumn Problem; Colonel Eternal; Radhopsin Blues; Translation; Oppio Inglese; A Decent Run; Absence.

Giancarlo Nino Locatelli: A Decent Run

by Mark Corroto
July 24, 2026

Who needs poetry in an age of internet memes, infinite scrolling and artificial intelligence? Poems ask us to linger over words, to discover meaning in silence as much as in language. Memes, by contrast, are consumed in an instant and forgotten just as quickly. We live in a culture that increasingly prizes immediacy over reflection, image ...

Maurice Louca: Saet El-Hazz

by Neri Pollastri
August 15, 2022

Un disco davvero assai singolare questo Saet El-Hazz (The Luck Hour), il quarto del multistrumentista e compositore egiziano Maurice Louca, che vi sintetizza gli esiti della sua multiforme ricerca nella musica sperimentale, elettronica e tradizionale del suo paese, guidando una formazione con strumenti quasi esclusivamente occidentali (a parte dei metallofoni di origine indonesiana) senza tuttavia concedere ...

Saet El-Hazz

By Maurice Louca

Label: Northern Spy
Released: 2021
Track listing: El-Fazza’ah (The Slip and Slide); Bidayat (Holocena); Yara’ (Fire Files); Saet El Hazz (The Luck Hour); El Gullashah (Full Tongue); Higamah (Hirudinea

Canopy

By Mazen Kerbaj

Label: топот
Released: 2020
Track listing: Canopy; Paring.

Playing For Keeps: Improvisation In The Aftermath

by Ian Patterson
July 1, 2020

Playing For Keeps: Improvisation In The Aftermath Edited by Daniel Fischlin & Eric Porter 352 Pages ISBN: 978-1-4780-0814-9 Duke University Press 2020 Musical improvisation is often described as a conversation. A universal language. Musicians trading back and forth seem to be having a blast, which, on occasion, for ...

Das B: Canopy

by Mark Corroto
March 25, 2020

The free improvisational quartet Das B releases its first recording Canopy, taken from a live performance at the Festival Konfrontationen, in Nickelsdorf, Austria 2017. Formed in 2015, the 'B' refers to Berlin, the nexus of activity for the four musicians heard here. The two Australians, drummer Tony Buck and bassist Mike Majkowski, join the Beirut-born trumpeter ...

Axel Dörner/Franz Hautzinger/Mazen Kerbaj/Carl Ludwig Hübsch: Ariha Brass Quartet

by Mark Corroto
February 22, 2016

The visual component of music has seemingly always been given short shrift by critics, and for that matter, listeners too. Except for the rare instances where a person is born with an acute synesthesia, or the ability to see musical notes as colors or shapes, perception of sound is limited to emotion and the sensation of ...

konstruKt: Turkish Free Music

by Mark Corroto
November 20, 2013

When we think of the term “virus," we equate it with human disease or an infection, as in a computer virus. But consider the musical virus known as free jazz, or improvisation. Its origins can be traced back to a Louis Armstrong solo deviating from his brass band's arrangement. Quickly, his extemporizing blossomed into jazz music ...