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Enja Records

Read "Enja Records" reviewed by Donald Elfman


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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Rabih Abou-Khalil: Em Portugues

Read "Em Portugues" reviewed by Ian Patterson


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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Em Português

Label: World Village
Released: 2008

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Songs For Sad Women

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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Rabih Abou-Khalil: Em Portuguès 

Read "Em Portuguès " reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


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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Rabih Abou-Khalil: Songs For Sad Women

Read "Songs For Sad Women" reviewed by Ian Patterson


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

Label: World Village
Released: 2007

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Rabih Abou-Khalil: Songs for Sad Women

Read "Songs for Sad Women" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


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 ...

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Journey To The Centre Of An Egg

Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Shrewd Woman; Little Camels; Die Br

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Rabih Abou-Khalil / Joachim K: Journey to the Centre of an Egg

Read "Journey to the Centre of an Egg" reviewed by Jim Santella


With a program of compositions by Rabih Abou-Khalil and Joachim Kühn, Journey to the Centre of an Egg shifts to various parts of the globe, combining mainstream jazz with world music. Most of the flavor in their creations centers on the Middle Eastern tradition. This comes as no surprise, since Abou-Khalil was born in Lebanon and ...


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