Von: Manuela Benetton
Datum: Wed, 26 Oct 2016
Betreff: Berlin 07.11: Karkhana, Rashad Becker and Eli Keszler at
Kantine am Berghain
Monday, 7 November 2016
Kantine am Berghain – Am Wriezener Bahnhof 12043 Berlin
KARKHANA
RASHAD BECKER and ELI KESZLER
Facebook Event: here http://www.facebook.com/events/347407695607803/
Combining some of the most innovative players from each of three cities
(Beirut – Cairo – Istanbul), Karkhana http://www.karkhana-music.com/ met
in Beirut for the first time in February 2014 with the very ambitious
aim to bring together elements from the three major experimental music
scenes of the area. The band’s music strives to create a unique musical
blend combining free jazz and psychedelic with various shades of ethnic
and traditional music, traces of shaabi, tarab… Building on the
multi-instrumental capacities of its members, the group tries to develop
what could possibly be called a “Free Middle-Eastern Music”. – Video: (1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpHCvXKgQK0)
Current line-up:
Mazen Kerbaj: trumpet, mezmar
Umut Çağlar: reeds, flutes
Sam Shalabi: oud, electric guitar
Sharif Sehnaoui: electric guitar
Maurice Louca: organ
Tony Elieh: electric bass
Michael Zerang: drums, percussion
Artists Eli Keszler https://soundcloud.com/elikeszler and Rashad Becker
https://soundcloud.com/search?q=rashad%20becker will embark their second
European tour in November. These two avant garde composers and fluent
improvisers have performed as a duo only a few times before so expect
new ground will be broken with each show. Video: (1
Eli Keszler is a composer, artist and multi-instrumentalist based in New
York City. He has released two acclaimed albums for PAN, and was last
heard on record in collaboration with another estimable jammer, Oren
Ambarchi, and in collaboration with Tony Conrad, Christian Wolff and Joe
Mcphee amongst many others. His new record,Last Signs of Seed
(2xLP and Digital) will be released on Empty Editions
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out November 17th.
Rashad Becker’s live sets evolve around the angle of traditional music
of notional species, a semi-abstract synthetic narrative that proves
appealing to a remarkably wide audience.