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Rabih Abou-Khalil
The Sultan's Picnic

Album : The Sultan’s Picnic
Artist : Rabih Abou-Khalil
Release Date : 1994
Label : Enja
Genre : Jazz
Total time : 00:52:35
Total size : 71,3 MB

Tracks :
01. Sunrise In Montreal 8:20
02. Solitude 6:40
03. Dog River 4:32
04. Moments 6:21
05. Lamentation 9:06
06. Nocturne Au Villaret 6:37
07. The Happy Sheik 6:06
08. Snake Soup 4:53

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Composer and oudist Rabih Abou-Khalil generates variety and interest by bringing aboard different guest musicians for each album. The personnel on Sultan's Picnic is so similar to that of Blue Camel that one might expect them to sound similar. But there's a key difference in the presence of Howard Levy on Sultan's Picnic. Levy is a talented harmonica player who has done a lot of offbeat work, including a stint with BTla Fleck & the Flecktones. Despite the power of Charlie Mariano on alto sax and Kenny Wheeler on trumpet, this album is dominated by the idioms of the harmonica, specifically the jazzy, quirky, lackadaisical idiom popularized by Levy's work with the Flecktones. This domination is noticeable from the beginning, on "Sunrise in Montreal." Occasionally, the harmonica recedes to the background and allows other instruments to shine through. On "Solitude," Levy provides only the occasional raspy sound effect, while Abou-Khalil steps forward with an instrument he had custom-built: the bass oud. Other novel instruments put in an appearance here as well. Michel Godard huffs and toots away on the tuba and its archaic predecessor, the serpent. (This is in addition to Steve Swallow on bass.) Whether because of the multitude of instruments -- all the aforementioned, plus three percussionists and an uncredited electric guitar -- or just too much influence from Levy, the album lacks focus, except when it sounds like the Flecktones. There are exceptions, like "The Happy Sheik" and "Snake Soup," where Abou-Khalil sounds like his dramatic self again. But on these tracks, Levy is used mostly as punctuation.
~ Kurt Keefner, All Music Guide.

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Rabih Abou-Khalil
Em Portugues

Album : Em Portugues
Artist : Rabih Abou-Khalil
Release Date : 2008
Label : Enja
Genre : Jazz
Total time : 00:59:24
Total size : 108 MB

Tracks :
1. Como Um Rio
2. No Mar Das Tuas Pernas
3. Lua Num Quarto, A
4. Amarrado a Saudade
5. Ja Nao Da Coma Esta
6. Se O Meu Amor De Pedisse
7. Quando Te Vejo Sorrir
8. Casa De Mariquinhas
9. Beijos Ateus
10. Gaivota Que Tu Es, A
11. Jogo Da Vida
12. Adolescencia Perdida

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After recording with jazz greats, traditional Arab musicians, and classical string quartets--as well as writing symphonic orchestral works for the BBC Orchestra and the Ensemble Modern--what would a Lebanese composer do next? Of course he would go to Portugal and record the songs a young fado singer from Lisbon!
Rabih Abou-Khalil discovered Ricardo Ribeiro, a young singer from Lisbon who had already established a reputation for himself. He sings Abou-Khalil's compositions as if they were his own, mastering the complicated rhythms and unusual melodic lines with absolute ease. The result is an "imaginary folklore"; a music that sounds new and strange, yet familiar and natural, as if it had always existed. Perhaps it is the missing link between East and West, classical and modern, folklore and art music, deeply rooted in the everywhere and the nowhere.

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Rabih Abou-Khalil
Roots & Sprouts

Album : Roots & Sprouts
Artist : Rabih Abou-Khalil
Release Date : 1993
Label : Enja
Genre : Jazz
Total time : 01:07:11
Total size : 92.7 MB

Tracks :
1. Remembering Machghara
2. Walking On Air
3. Nida
4. Revelation
5. Wordless
6. Sweet Sweet Rain
7. Outlook
8. Caravan
9. Dreams Of A Dying City

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Rabih Abou-Khalil
Arabian Waltz

Album : Arabian Waltz
Artist : Rabih Abou-Khalil
Release Date : 1996
Label : Enja
Genre : Jazz
Total time : 00:58:08
Total size : 133 MB

Tracks :
01 Arabian Waltz
02 Dreams of a Dying City
03 Ornette Never Sleeps
04 Georgina
05 No Visa
06 The Pain After

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Rabih Abou-Khalil
Jurney to the Centre of an Egg

Album : Jurney to the Centre of an Egg
Artist(s) : Rabih Abou-Khalil, Joachim Kühn & Jarrod Cagwin
Release Date : 2005
Label : Enja
Genre : Jazz
Total time : 00:52:25
Total size : 119 MB

Tracks :
1. Shrewd Woman
2. Little Camels
3. Die Brücke
4. I'm Better Off Without You
5. Natwashe And Katwashe
6. Mango Listen
7. No Plastic Cups, Please
8. Sweet And Sour Milk

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Even many of the most singular and iconoclastic musicians will establish a foundation niche upon which they construct their adventurous explorations. Rabih refuses to be bound even by his own previous designs. With Journey To The Centre Of An Egg – his 11th Enja production and the second to be licensed to Justin Time for North America (following up on the heavily acclaimed Morton’s Foot) – Abou-Khalil brings the piano into his unique musical world for the first time on record. Most appropriately, he has chosen the extraordinary German pianist/composer Joachim Kühn, one of Europe’s most accomplished and respected jazz musicians since he arrived on the scene in the early 1960s.

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Rabih Abou-Khalil
Songs for Sad Women

Album : Songs for Sad Women
Artist : Rabih Abou-Khalil
Release Date : 2007
Label : Enja
Genre : Jazz
Total time : 00:55:52
Total size : 79,3 MB

Tracks :
1. Mourir Pour Ton Décolleté (7:29)
2. How Can We Dance If I Cannot Waltz (7:08)
3. Best If You Dressed Less (6:56)
4. The Sad Women Of Qana (8.46)
5. Para O Teu Bumbum (7:08)
6. Le Train Bleu (6.55)
7. A Chocolate Love Affair (11:09)

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Abou-Khalil's new album "Songs For Sad Women" radiates with charming, elegiac beauty. Consisting of four players - on oud (Arab lute), on duduk (Armenian shawm), on serpent (a mysterious brass instrument from the Middle Ages) and drums , the band's rather singular instrumental mixture makes for an extraordinary sound experience. This is Abou-Khalil's most emotional music to date, heart-gripping, relaxed and haunting. The album's guest star is Gevorg Dabaghyan, one of the most famous players of the duduk, Armenia's traditional oboe and national symbol. Born in 1965 in Yerevan, Dabaghyan graduated from State Conservatory in 1989 and was the first to present Armenian mediaeval spiritual music on the duduk. He became famous for his cross-cultural collaborations with such as Jan Garbarek, Gidon Kremer and Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Project. In Dabaghyan's hand, the duduk becomes an autumn breeze, fresh and bright. Like a rainbow in the sky, like an eternal voice coming from the mountains and rivers of Armenia, the sound of the duduk touches the listener's heart and soul.

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