Abu Tarek, by Franz Hautzinger / Mazen Kerbaj

Abu Tarek

by Franz Hautzinger / Mazen Kerbaj

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

€8 EUR or more

1.	Sahel al Bekaa 06:10	buy track
2.	Hermel 07:04	buy track
3.	Abu Tarek 06:22	buy track
4.	Lezzebeh 07:30	buy track
5.	Kalash 1 03:59	buy track
6.	Kalash 2 02:53	buy track
7.	Sarukh 06:33	buy track
8.	Rote Erde 1 04:32	buy track
9.	Rote Erde 2 02:54	buy track

about

Franz Hautzinger: trumpet
Mazen Kerbaj: trumpet

----

This was my second album ever, and my first "trumpet project" of many to come. It was also my first meeting with Franz Hautzinger who is still a very close friend and collaborator to date (my other released projects with him are "Oriental Space" and "Ariha Brass Quartet").
This duo session took place less than a year after our surrealistic first encounter in Lebanon (I still have to put that in writing one day); I was quite stressed to record with one of my trumpet heroes, and on the way to the studio Franz told me how he himself was stressed to record his duo with Derek Bailey some years before. He recalled Bailey saying to him after an hour or so of recording: "I think we have enough music for the album". They stopped there, and later released all the pieces with no further selection or cuts. We smiled about this quite challenging and radical posture from one the old timers of free improv.
Later that day, after 50 minutes in the studio, Franz looked at me and said: "I think we have enough music for the album".

credits

released January 1, 2004

Originally released in CD format by Creative Sources

All music improvised by Hautzinger and Kerbaj
No cuts / No overdubbing
Recorded on august 26 2003 at Khalifeh Studio Lebanon by Raymond Khalifeh
Mix by Mazen Kerbaj and Raymond Khalifeh
Layout and artwork by Mazen Kerbaj

license

about

Mazen Kerbaj Berlin, Germany

Kerbaj is a visual artist and musician from Beirut, living in Berlin.

He is widely considered as one of the initiators and key players of the Lebanese experimental music scene where he co-founded
Irtijal festival and Al Maslakh label.

Kerbaj pushes the boundaries of the trumpet and develops a personal language and innovative techniques. His music is often described as "acoustic electronics". ... more

contact / help

Contact Mazen Kerbaj

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Abu Tarek, you may also like:

Lakeside Blues - Nachtmusik
by Lance Austin Olsen / Gil Sansón

supported by 4 fans who also own “Abu Tarek”
go to album
Semiotic Drift
by Maggie Nicols / Matilda Rolfsson / Mark Wastell

supported by 4 fans who also own “Abu Tarek”

Fantastic set from these masters of improvised music! Barry Chabala
go to album
Achilles, Socrates, Diotima (The Poem of Names, No. 2)
by MICHAEL PISARO / INSUB META ORCHESTRA

supported by 4 fans who also own “Abu Tarek”
go to album
I was too young to hear silence
by Patrick Shiroishi

Free jazz saxophonist explores negative space on a vast, improvised work recorded in a L.A. parking structure. Bandcamp Album of the Day Nov 9, 2023
go to album
Time Hunt
by Sputnik Trio

The Spanish avant-garde jazz trio takes listeners on a journey through time on their thoughtful new album. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 4, 2022
go to album
ELOGIO
by Lara Alarcón

Improviser and composer Lara Alarcón has created an experimental opus rife with moments of wildly free jazz and lovely melodic passages. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 28, 2021
go to album
Döner Kebab
by Axel Dörner & Mazen Kerbaj

supported by 4 fans who also own “Abu Tarek”
go to album