Bachar Mar-Khalifé (Infiné-F) - Live
Arabic traditional meets electrojazz
Bachar Mar-Khalife is a classically trained, French-Lebanese pianist and percussionist who started out as a professional concert performer. Conceived of as a meeting of East and West, the stylistic and linguistic split presented in his albums illustrates Mar-Khalife's feelings of a dual nationality and complex identity.
Bachar’s last album « Who's Gonna get the Ball from behind the Wall of the Garden Today? » was out in March 2013 on Agoria’s label INFINE. Stylistically, it’s is an impossible album to pin down. Melting traditional Kuwaiti song, irresistible Arabic piece with heavy piano riff, blistering percussion and a kick-drum that recalls the organic dance music of Brandt Brauer & Frick.
A heady mixture of Arabic and French, stompers and ballads, it's a superb and uniquely musically schizophrenic album.
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