Rabih Abou-Khalil

Rabih Abou- Khalil ( born August 17, 1957 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese composer, oud player and jazz musician.

Life

Rabih Abou -Khalil studied Arabic and Western music at the Beirut Art Academy. In 1978, he fled from the Lebanese civil war to Munich, where he studied flute at Walter Theurer. However, his main instrument was the oud, the Oriental short-necked lute ( forerunner of the European lute, term Arab origin. Al ' oud ).

Geoff Dyer wrote: " Rabih Abou- Khalil not experimenting, it looks It's a rhythm -driven, soaked in tradition Search traditions, rather:. .. . Arabic music, jazz, blues, so to speak forward -looking music, completely immersed in the past"

Basis of his style of play is Arabic music tradition, which is developed through improvisation as modern music play and which he is able successfully to meet also in a jazz context, it sometimes.

He prefers to work with " frontier workers " together as the Kronos Quartet, Ensemble Modern, the Balanescu Quartet and the ARTE Quartett and jazz musicians such as Charlie Mariano, Kenny Wheeler, Joachim Kühn and world musicians Glen Velez. Since the 1990s, it occurs worldwide at major jazz festivals. In 2002 he received an honorary certificate for the price of the German Record Critics' Award for his oeuvre. Since 2003 he plays in a formation with Michel Godard, Gabriele Mirabassi, Luciano Biondini and Jarrod Cagwin to which, since 2004, the Sardinian singer Gavino Murgia and saxophonist occurs.

Due to its records and CDs also be mitmusizierende artists came to great success, especially Howard Levy and Ramesh Shotham. Of rhythm of most of his music projects were the frame drum player Glen Velez and Nabil Khaiat.

In 2006, he also appeared with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Discography

• Bitter Harvest (1984 )
• Between Dusk And Dawn (1987 )
• Nafas (1988 )
• Bukra (1988 )
• Roots and Sprouts (1990 )
• Al- Jadida (1991 )
• Camel blue (1992)
• Tarab (1993 )
• Sultan 's Picnic (1994 )
• Arabian Waltz (1996 )
• Odd Times (1997)
• Yara (1999)
• Cactus Of Knowledge (2001)
• Il Sospiro (2002)
• Morton 's Foot (2003)
• Journey To The Centre of An Egg ( 2005)
• Songs for Sad Women (2007)
• Em Português ( 2008)
• Selection (1988-2008, Compilation )
• Trouble in Jerusalem ( 2010)
• Hungry People ( 2012)

Award

RUTH - The German World Music Award 2005