Ibrahim Maalouf - Live at Babylon (Istanbul).

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contemporary Jazz.

Jazz Fusion.

Middle East.

Lebanese.

Local Subjects:

Contemporary Jazz.

Jazz Fusion.

Middle East.

Lebanese.

Genre:

Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (80 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 2013.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

In May of 2013, after being named Jazz Artist of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique Awards, Ibrahim Maalouf gives a memorable concert at Babylon in Istanbul. The venue, founded in 1999 by an artist agency to host the best in progressive music, has become an international and local musical cultural center in search of new voices and new ideas. Named Best Instrumental Newcomer at the Victoires du Jazz Awards in France in 2010, Ibrahim Maalouf was already well-known by the public, having won numerous international competitions and having played with symphonic orchestras and artists who chose him for the unique sound of his trumpet, which is equipped with an extra valve, enabling it to play quarter-tones. He had just released *Diagnostic*, the third album in a trilogy, which began with *Diasporas* in 2007, followed by *Diachronism* in 2009, and whose title evokes the idea of a musical and personal assessment. In reality, it is part of a set composed several weeks before the release of the first album. The eleven compositions, each inspired by a family member, hark back to his personal past, including the childhood trauma of fleeing Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War in Beirut, the fifth number on the concert. Ibrahim Maalouf, who has been trained in everything from Western baroque music to classical Arabic music, mixes jazz and electro with Sufi trance and Balkan fanfare, and Cuban rhythms and batucada with heavy metal. All of it’s explosive. He orders these disparate influences with consummate mastery, and the images follow the concert, a collage of instruments and faces, getting ever closer to the sound, filming the space between a microphone and a pavilion as if one could see what’s being heard. The cultural identity offered by Ibrahim Maalouf is resolutely open to all things "Dia," through himself and others. Marion Paoli

Notes:

Performed Babylon

Title from resource description page (viewed July 15, 2024).