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Jazz Musician of the Day: Rabih Abou-Khalil

August 17, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Rabih Abou-Khalil's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Rabih Abou-KhalilThe oud virtuoso Rabih Abou Khalil was born in Beirut Lebanon in 1957 and grew up during the two decades when Beirut was on of the most cosmopolitan of all cities. He studied traditional ...

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Article: Album Review

Tafillalt: Tafillalt

Read "Tafillalt" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
August 14, 2009

This innovative alt-klezmer/alt-Jewish music ensemble represents the growing interest of John Zorn's Tzadik label in the Israeli Jewish music scene. Tafillalt fits into the Radical Jewish Culture series of the label, not only by exploring and interpreting ancient and modern Hebrew prayers--songs in adventurous and compelling new soundscapes--but also because of the group's multicultural improvisational attitude ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Enja Records

by Donald Elfman
July 12, 2009

Matthias Winckelmann's favorite recording of the hundreds he's made is the one just finished. Over the years, he's documented music from all over the world and of many different stripes and has always been eloquent and passionate. His label Enja has been in existence for 38 years and a look at the catalogue tells you that ...

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Article: Album Review

Rabih Abou-Khalil: Em Portugues

Read "Em Portugues" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
March 9, 2009

Musical alchemist, oud virtuoso and springer of surprises, Rabih Abou-Khalil has never been shy about immersing himself into challenging musical environments. So the suggestion by Ricardo Pais, director of the Teatro Nacional Sao Joao, Porto to have Abou-Khalil write music to the words of five Portuguese poets represented an irresistible challenge. The project sees Abou-Khalil utilizing ...

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Songs For Sad Women

By Rabih Abou-Khalil

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2008
Track listing: Mourir pour ton decollete; How can We Dance if I Cannot Waltz?; Best if You Dressed Less; The Sad Women of Qana; Para O Teu Bumbum; Le Train Bleu; A Chocolate Love Affair.

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Em Português

By Rabih Abou-Khalil

Label: World Village
Released: 2008

Article: Album Review

Rabih Abou-Khalil: Em Portuguès

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 9, 2008

I detrattori di Rabih Abou Khalil sostengono che i suoi dischi siano tutti molto simili tra loro. I suoi estimatori (e chi scrive, tanto per mettere le cose in chiaro, è tra questi), pur riconoscendo che c'è del vero in questa affermazione, preferiscono mettere l'accento su altri temi. La complessità melodica e ritmica delle sue composizioni, ...

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Article: Album Review

Rabih Abou-Khalil: Songs For Sad Women

Read "Songs For Sad Women" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
March 23, 2008

Showing respect and audacity in equal measure, the music of Lebanese oud player/composer Rabih Abou-Khalil has always stretched musical boundaries and traversed time. His is a music which embraces tradition, and challenges it. On Songs for Sad Women Abou-Khalil marshals a stripped-down ensemble which plays with air akin to intimate chamber music, yet with the soul ...

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Songs For Sad Women

By Rabih Abou-Khalil

Label: World Village
Released: 2007

Article: Album Review

Rabih Abou-Khalil: Songs for Sad Women

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 24, 2007

C’è sempre la solita elegiaca “bellezza” mielosa nei dischi di Rabih Abou-Khalil, libanese trapiantato a Monaco di Baviera dai tempi della guerra civile di trent’anni fa e discusso suonatore di oud dei tempi che corrono. Bella la copertina, come quasi tutte le precedenti quindici della sua storia discografica, belli i “suoni”, come in quasi tutti i ...