Duet: Trumpet + Air force / bombs

by lawrence

Just for a Day has a very touching post about a Lebanese trumpet player Mazen Kerbaj, whose reflection on the current clashing between Israel and Lebanon was manifested by a special recording session he did with “the Israeli air force / bombs” on his own balcony:

I recorded two hours of bombs + trumpet from my balcony yesterday night. Some bombs were really close - what kind of mouthpiece do the israeli pilots use to have this sound? The tension you get in your playing is incredible. Now I feel bad to draw or play music while people are burning.

An excerpt of the session can be downloaded here.

According to Just for a Day, Kerbaj is among “the first wave of Middle East free improvisers”. JFAD also offers three downloads of Mr. Kerbaj’s music, I’m replicating the links here, since blogs hosted by Blogger - which is the case of JFAD - are not accessible in mainland China.

Mazen Kerbaj & Franz Hautzinger - Sahel al Bekaa
Mazen Kerbaj & Franz Hautzinger - Abu Tarek
Mazen Kerbaj - Songs for Evan (part 3 & 5)

Kerbaj has his own blog: mazenkerblog.blogspot.com. So yes, those located in mainland China will also need proxy softwares to visit.




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  1. Mazen Kerbaj is also an impressive cartoonist, as far as i know. Here’s his entry in Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/72795424@N00/

    Comment by yuan — August 3, 2006 #

  2. Impressive indeed, not sure if it’s the same person though, probably yes. Well, doesn’t really matter. Thanks for the link.

    Comment by lawrence — August 3, 2006 #

  3. Sorry, it IS the same person, just checked his blog.

    Comment by lawrence — August 3, 2006 #

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