DEAR GERMANY
1/
In the next two days I will play my last 2 shows in your country. At least in a very long while.
I have now had three 2024 shows cancelled because of my support for
#BDSMovement
, but from now on I will automatically decline any new invitation
My
#Melotron
survived with minor bruises despite the huge door (seen behind it) that fell directly on it. Solid piece of equipment!
It’s originally the melotron of
#StudioBaalbeck
#BeirutExplosion
3/
As a counter-measure, and as the director of
@irtijal
Festival, I will now ask any German who wishes to perform there to openly support BDS. Fair play?
CANCELLED!!!
@achtbruecken
Festival in Koln has withdrawn the invitation to one of my bands because of my support for
#BDSMovement
One more exemple of censorship from a German institution against peaceful pro-palestinian actions.
@BDSmovement
2/
I no longer wish to be “on the defensive” arguing for my right of speech and thought, the problem is not me, it is your country’s one-sided policies and support for an apartheid state and it’s barbarian military apparatus.
RIP Etel Adnan ❤️
I feel lucky to have known you since before I could even remember.
As a child, i could see the spark in your eyes and feel the power of your presence, only years later did I understand why. Goodbye
Hello, i’m a Lebanese musician and an artistic director at
@irtijal
. Everyday, I get defeated by a multitude of obscure forces that operate in my country, but I didn’t yet concede.
“Al Woujdan” is now out. It is the first music I composed soon after the
#BeirutBlast
on guitar & saz. The least I can say is that it bears the mark.
Recorded by
@FadiTabbal
Part of Walk My Way Vol. 3
@NickVander6
@577Records
#Ruhrtriennale
re-invites
@Youngfathers
! Hats off, already quite an achievement in the context of German society, and against those who falsely equate
#BDS
with anti-semitism!!!
This is wonderful, the Durban International Film Festival decided to retrieve Israeli films from their program. That this is coming from South Africa is not a detail and should point the way forward for cultural institutions around the world
#StopIsraeliApartheid
#FreePalestine
Here we are!!!!
#Irtijal
2021 our 21st edition starts this wednesday with a three day program including three ensembles and many beautiful musicians!
Full line-up here ->
We will also launch our
#Istimrar
commission series ->
Playing my first
#live
concert tonight (and it’s not online!!!) in a while. Aya Metwalli & Calamita (w/ Tony Elieh & Malek Rizkallah) in
#Beirut
@ayametwalli
@tonyelieh
About to play my first public concert in a long while tonight
@sursockmuseum
w/
@abed_kobeissy
&
@radiokvm
It’s going to feel really strange to have a real audience again, I might even cry, who knows…
Ironically we play to a film by
@heroshinema
called “Topologie d’une Absence”
Out now!
“Center / قلب" is my collaboration with Jawad Nawfal (formerly know as Munma, pioneer of Lebanon’s electronic music scene)
Three tracks in EP format released digitally by VV-VA and Syrphe Records
Off to
#Stuttgart
to perform “A” Trio at ECLAT Festival w/
@mazenkerbaj
&
@RaedYassin
The concert is on the 5th and will be streamed live on the festival’s web portal here ->
Clearest/scariest shot of the
#Beirut
explosion. It does seem like there are fireworks in the hearth of the first explosion and prior to the second one, but the mushroom cloud that follows looks very diferent from the enschede fireworks disaster for instance.
Hard to say...
So “A” Trio now finally has it’s own
@Bandcamp
page including all our main releases to date.
Soon we will add some tracks that has been available here and there but also possibly some exclusive material.
Some fantastic “A” Trio news as we prepare for a long European tour in September, we will be releasing two new albums: one is a live recording and the other our 3rd studio album!
“The Binding Third”, live in Ljubljana, is already available via
#Unrock
Amazing how we are told exactly how many rockets are fired at
#Israel
, but never the slightest detail about what type of bombs are thrown on
#Palestine
, or how many... pretty sure these include some pretty nasty shit: bunker busters? dirty bombs? What’s their weight?
SHATTERED FAITH
1/
Yesterday our two daughters (10 & 11) asked us about the war in Palestine. They think war is horrible and wanted to understand what started it. My wife explained that Israeli settlers came to an inhabited land and gradually seized Palestinian land and homes
Playing my first live show tonight since late May!!! It’s at 8:30pm at @ Demo Bar in Gemmayzeh
Electric guitar & two clarinets with Paed Conca & Pol Seif
Grateful to Paed for the invitation
#Beirut
That’s just outside the venue (WABE) where i play tonight in quintet w/ Mazen Kerbaj; Christine Abdelnour; Burkhard Beins & Michael Vorfeld for the last day of Irtijal Berlin
@mazenkerbaj
@irtijal
Irtijal is proud to launch
#Istimrar
!
A series of commissions to Lebanese composers
The aim is to give time, means & freedom to composers in order to keep the creative process alive
Selected artists to be announced shortly
In partnership w/
@HCMFUK
Tonight will be the last night in one of Beirut’s best joints of the last decade: Anise Bar 😞
I’ll be joining hordes of musicians bidding the place farewell!
(Playing a short trio set w/
@jad_atoui
&
@MmeChandelier
)
RIP Alvin Lucier
Catering to the various needs of his “Music for a Long Thin Wire” when it was installed
@beirutartcenter
some years ago remains one of my most fulfilling sound experiences 🙏❤️🙏
It’s out!!!!
Well it’s been out for a few days now but my social media skills are going downhill 😛
In any case please support us at
#AlMaslakh
by purchasing the music if you like it ❤️
Out now:
- Kinematik’s “Al Jadi”
- Calamita’s “Nemesis”
These two lovely albums are joint releases by the
#Beirut
’s Ruptured and
#Annihaya
Records available in a limited edition vinyl and digitally.
Cover designs are etchings by the one and only Hatem Imam
@hawzers
“A” Trio will be celebrating its 20 year anniversary on the opening night of Irtijal’22
@ashkal_alwan
! Indeed our very first show was during Irtijal’02 at the old Masrah Beirut.
We will be joined by special guest Thomas Ankersmit!
@mazenkerbaj
@RaedYassin
Last show for me tonight of an intense time in Germany w/ Aya Metwalli & Calamita! Part of Memories in Music, Akademie der Künste
@AdK_Berlin
@ayametwalli
@tonyelieh
Playing a “stringish” quartet tonight at WABE Berlin with Biliana Voutchkova; Andrew Lafkas & Raed Yassin
Part of Irtijal Berlin Edition
@irtijal
@RaedYassin
#Irtijal
’20 closing event with
@knmtklb
ensemble at
#TheBallroomBlitz
.
Full performance to be streamed on Friday 13.11 - 22.00 (GMT+2)
.
on
Irtijal’s facebook page (irtijalfestival)
Twitch (irtijalfestival)
Periscope (irtijal)
.
vide of
#GhassanSalhab
I was asked to make a proposal for
#Unesco
’s JazzDay. Naturally, the amazing Donna Khalifé came to my mind, she assembled some of Beirut’s finest players to perform Miles Davis’ “Blue in Green”
The Donna Khalifé Quintet
UNESCO
#JazzDay10
My composition “Plans for an Everlasting Peace” will be performed in
#Berlin
tonight by Axel Dörner; Michael Thieke; Andrea Neumann; Andrea Parkins; Burkhard Beins & Tony Buck.
Honored really, such amazing musicians. Wish I was there...
6/
On a metaphysical level, the Palestinian cause is about where we stand as a species, it’s about our humanity. Our inability to redeem ourselves is inflicting long lasting damage to the very fabric that makes us who we are
We are failing as a species
#FreePalestine
Just out!
My second solo album is now available on
@Bandcamp
via Detroit based platform Sounds From the Corridor
Two improv pieces using only my Taylor acoustic guitar, no prepared or extended techniques, just fingers and nails
Please sign this petition calling for the immediate release of Sama Abdulhadi. She has been detained because “techno music is not consistent with Palestinian cultural heritage” (!!?!!?!?)
#FreeSama
Refreshing news:
Ghassan Salhab’s “The River / النهر”, to which I have composed the original score, is part of
#LocarnoFilmFestival
’s line-up this coming august
First
#lockdown
sunday program:
8am to 12pm -> IAF drones
12pm to 2pm -> IAF warplanes
2pm to ... - > back to drones
It’s been more than a year of continuous
#Israel
violations of
#Lebanese
airspace
#STOP
Remembering Past Lives
#1
As I’m feeling more and more out of touch with my previous life as a touring musician, I thought I’d look around the net for some random vids of past concerts
@highzero
, Baltimore In 2017 w/ Joe McPhee & Paul Neidhardt
Irtijal takes part in
@Morphine_Rec
’s gigantic fundraising marathon taking place tomorrow!!! Stay tuned for more details about timetables and line-ups
It’s tonight (or early tomorrow morning depending on your location)
Sharing this beautiful bill at Baltimore’s
#TheRedRoom
with Jennifer Walshe & Deaf Beef
Thank you
@highzero
Tonight 3/18/21 journey across the Earth. Jennifer Walshe (ireland), Deaf Beef (canada) Sharif Sehnaoui (lebanon). Only The Red Room in Your Room can offer you this magic carpet ride across the audio/visual landscape of your dreams. 8:30pm EST