Mazen kerbaj biography
Mazen Kerbaj
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| Birth name | Mazen Kerbaj |
| Born | (age&#;49&#;50) |
| Origin | Beirut, Lebanon |
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Musical artist
Mazen Kerbaj (born Beirut, ) is a Lebanesejazz and free improvisation trumpeter and comic book artist.
Early life
Kerbaj was born in Lebanon to artist and poet Laure Ghorayeb and actor Antoine Kerbaj.
Mazen kerbaj biography Mazen Kerbaj is widely considered as one of the initiators and key players of the Lebanese free improvisation and experimental music scene. He is co-founder and active member of MILL, the cultural music association behind Irtijal, an annual improvisation music festival held in Beirut since , and co-founder of Al Maslakh, the first label.He grew up in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, and began playing free jazz in local clubs following the reestablishment of cultural life in the s.[1]
Career
Kerbaj's first public performances took place in He started his own record label, and toured internationally, playing with musicians such as Michael Zerang, Mats Gustafsson, Guillermo Gregorio, and Fred Lonberg-Holm in Europe and the United States.
He also issued his own comics in the s, which are published on a blog. In July , he recorded himself playing live during the Lebanon War with the sounds of bombs exploding and car sirens wailing.[2]
In , he became artist-in-residence at the Berlin collective DAAD.
Discography
- A with Sharif Sehnaoui & Raed Yassine cd-thèque, )
- Abu Tarek with Franz Hautzinger (Creative Sources, )
- Rouba3i5 with Christine Sehnaoui, Sharif Sehnaoui & Ingar Zach (Al Maslakh, )
- Brt Vrt Zrt Krt (Al Maslakh, )
- with Birgit Ulher, Sharif Sehnaou (Creative Sources, )
- Blue Rain with Ernesto Rodrigues, Guilherme Rodrigues, Carlos Santos (Creative Sources, )
- Ariha Brass Quartet with Axel Dörner, Franz Hautzinger, Carl Ludwig Hübsch (Al Maslakh, )
- Funkhaus with Mike Bullock, Andrew Lafkas (Fine Noise & Light, )
- East of Where? with Toshimaru Nakamura (Ftarri, )
- Sawt Out with Burkhard Beins, Michael Vorfeld ()
Bibliography
In English[3]
- Learning Deutsch, Headache Comics ()
- Beirut Won't Cry, Lebanon's July War: A Visual Diary, Fantagraphics ()
In French[3]
- Politique, Actes Sud & Arte Editions ()
- L'Abécédaire with Laure Ghorayeb, Headache Comics ()
- Lettre à la mère, L'Apocalypse ()
- Un An: Journal d'une annee comme les autres, Headache Comics ()
- Suffit la bagarre! with Lenia Major, Samir Jeunesse ()
- Beyrouth, juillet–août , Association ()
- 24 Poèmes, Headache Comics ()[4]