Información del evento:

• Vie

  07

  Dic

  2018

  BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL - Concierto de Theremin

  20:30Metro Al Madina - BEIRUT - LÍBANO

  BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL

   

  

   

  Beirut & Beyond International Music Festival returns, this year, with an exceptional lineup that will rouse your curiosity!
  From classical oriental to experimental music, 11 independent acts will perform on 4 different stages from 6 to 9 December to celebrate musical innovation and diversity.
  Don’t miss the Festival’s 6th edition, we promise you it’s going to be unlike anything else!

  Tickets sold at all Librairie Antoine branches & online: https://goo.gl/w7YVA4

  WAVE 1 (till Nov 20)
  TICKETS | 20,000LBP per night
  FESTIVAL PASS | 60,000LBP

  *Thursday December 6, 2018*
  Station Beirut - Doors open at 8:30pm

  Imed Alibi عماد عليبي – Frigya (Tunis / France / Burkina Faso)
  Imed Alibi’s sounds are ambitious and courageous. Mixing techniques, cultures and openness to create a world of rhythms, beats, melodies, ideas, transformation, technology and passion far from typical entertainment.
  His new project Frigya, which means Africa in Tunisian dialect, is a culmination of several years of research and creations. A link to the Arab-African world through a rich mix built on Alibi’s percussive foundations, Berber and Arabic rhythms, Khalil Hentati’s distorted digital beats, Michel Marre’s emotive Trumpet and carried by the vocals of Kandy Guira.

  Tania Saleh (Lebanon / Sweden)
  Tania Saleh is a Lebanese singer/songwriter who has been paving her own way in the Arabic indie alternative music scene. Taking a new path, Tania Saleh has chosen to revisit great inspiring work of renowned poets of the Arab World, by creating ‘Intersection’, an audiovisual experiment, mixing Arabic poetry, classical Arabic melodies, street art, Arabic calligraphy and contemporary electronic sounds.
  It describes the state of the Arab world, standing still, at an intersection between East and West, religious beliefs, extremism and moderation, good and evil, war and peace.

  *Friday December 7, 2018*
  Metro Al Madina - Doors open at 8:30pm

  Basel Zayed (Palestine)
  Basel Zayed is a virtuoso oud player and an acclaimed vocalist skilled in classical and contemporary Arabic music. He draws on deep experience with the Maqam (Arabic scales) music tradition and Awzan (Arabic rhythms) to explore the beauty and universality of Middle Eastern music, especially when combined with other styles like jazz.
  In Beirut & Beyond 2018, Basel will present Basel Zayed Project, for the first time, in collaboration with the Oxygen Jazz trio. Instrumental compositions, featuring the oud accompanied by the band with a vocal presence trained in Arabic and Middle Eastern style of singing and jazz vocal techniques.

  Javier Díez Ina (Spain)
  Javier Díez Ina just needs to move his hands in the air to create extraordinary sounds.
  Double bass player, thereminist and electronic musician, Javier’s latest work ‘Theremonial, Dark & Exotic Theremin Music’ is a record with 10 original compositions using only theremin sounds performed live with visuals.
  Created in 1919 by Leon Theremin, the Theremin is the only instrument that is played by moving hands in the air which creates a unique performance where every sound and every note comes from that instrument. No sampler or any other recording is used on stage just loops played by Javier, with several layers that allows the Theremin to adopt different musical roles.

  Lekhfa (Palestine / Egypt)
  Lekhfa is the creation of Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, three artists who have each blazed their different paths through the alternative Arabic music scene with solo albums and acclaimed collaborations. Experimenting and recording together during residencies in Alexandria, Amman, Cairo and Beirut, their collaborative album has been three years in the making.
  With Lekhfa this charismatic trio has given birth to a deliciously off-kilter album of sonic grit and beauty – the perfect setting for the dystopian poems of Mido Zoheir, the band’s ‘fourth member’ and one of the most talented Egyptian poets of his generation.
  Channeling the mood of the times, Lekhfa is inspired by the sentiment that suffuses Zoheir’s poems. It’s a potent mix of haunting vocals and a dizzying array of instrumentation - from guitar, slide guitar, synths, beat loops and electronica to ouds, buzuq, mizmar, percussion and harmonium – it’s an album of dark and haunting beauty.

  *Saturday December 8, 2018*
  Zoukak Studio - Doors open at 8:30pm

  Two or The Dragon - التنّين (Lebanon)
  Two or The Dragon is the electro-acoustic duo of Abed Kobeissy and Ali Hout. Founded in 2014, this project approaches Beirut’s urban soundscapes as an intrinsic component in Arabic music. The duo’s unique sound of processed Buzuq and percussions, combined with their background in classical Arabic music, takes the sonic, visual, and pseudo political day-to-day that is Beirut and reflects it onto a hyper-realistic soundscape and Arabic dance grooves. Having released their first album “Prelude for The Triumphant Man” in 2017, and composed many live scores for theater and contemporary dance productions, the duo will be presenting new compositions in their concert for BBIMF2018.

  Sig & Eric Truffaz (France)
  International headlining act ‘Elegia Session’ presents talented Sig along with Erik Truffaz, featuring Latvian drummer Artis Orubs.
  Heavy drumming over distorted synths, loops and effects with the magical trumpet of Erik Truffaz. He’s one of the leading trumpet players in the world with more than 10 albums for Blue Note Records. SIG aka Siegfried is a French gentleman vagabond, a jazz musician, a film director, a photographer. He fully leads cello and piano, the composer whose creative research is no longer roomy in any music genre – some years ago he proved that jazz combined with hip-hop does not contradict the classical quadruple sonatas compositions.

  Baskot Lel Baltageyya - بسكوت للبلطجية (Egypt)
  Under meters of concrete in central Cairo, a relentless buzz rebels and forms a melody. A tired man tunes his machines to catch a snatch of it, and accidentally creates a playground where these abandoned sounds can flourish. They develop a sense of humor and an acid tongue.
  A few children with bent ears find their way to an alley with an entrance to the playground. They would later describe what they heard as a delicious hybrid: one part cream, one part bubble gum. So, bend your ears and maybe you'll hear it too.
  Mr. Dabbour can already hear some of you wondering with grimaced faces:
  "Is this… rebellion?"
  No. Just a brand-new dance.

  *Sunday December 9, 2018*
  The Ballroom Blitz - Doors open at 8:00pm

  GURLS (Norway)
  It’s not often you find such a huge amount of indisputably cutting-edge jazz potential packed into a single trio, but with GURLS, that’s exactly what you get.
  GURLS is made up of three of Norway’s most sought-after musicians – all of them taking what they themselves confess is a musical holiday. With their playful energy, sassy self-confidence and multitudes of experience in their own bands and projects, together these three consummate musicians have formed a gently funky unit that communicates spontaneously and goes deep.
  The group’s debut album, Run Boy, Run, is a genre-hopping witches’ brew, stirred up by musicians whose lyrical playfulness addresses gender roles and norms, humor and confrontational female sexuality. GURLS are righteous, refreshing and bold as brass. [Relying solely on the sensuous, acoustic interplay of sax and double bass (no drums!) for instrumentation, and constantly passing the vocal baton between themselves, GURLS have landed on new and unexplored territory.]

  Kinematik (Lebanon)
  Kinematik’s rock sound is both diligent and intuitional, ranging from raucous improvisational psychedelic rock to steady and mechanical electronic grooves, with frequent post-rock climaxes. Immediate points of comparison include Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Loop, as well as Can (for the tendency towards Motorik beats) and Tortoise (for the intricacies of their layered compositions). Kinematik composes instrumental pieces that feature dynamic contrast, strong melodic lines, a heavy use of distortion and effects, and some reliance on electronics and synthesizers.
  Two years in the making, Kinematik completed their second album with an unannounced date for its release. The record is an 11-track narrative, a reconciliation with what has been and an invitation to be well alive rather than alive and well. This album compromises a new line-up, contrasting instrumentation, with the usual collaboration of Fadi Tabbal. The Band will preview the material at BBIMF2018 featuring Teddy Tawil and Firas Hallak on live visuals.

  Liliane Chlela (Lebanon)
  With her distinct sound treatment and signature improvised performances, Liliane Chlela has been pushing the boundaries of ‘Experimental and Electronic Music' for over a decade now, as a solo artist and through her various local and international collective projects.
  Chlela explores the connections between improvisation and sound treatment by approaching numerous musical genres with her signature techniques to construct distinctive sounds.
  Influenced by her work in film, moving images, interactive installations and performing arts, Chlela has an extensive sound palette, making her one of the most versatile female producers/musicians in the region. She will be presenting new compositions at BBIMF2018.

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  FOUNDING PARTNER: Oslo World

  SUPPORT: Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Roskilde Foundation | Instituto Cervantes | Spanish Embassy in Beirut

  PARTNERS: Ehdenyiat Festival | The FAC | Sacem | Visa for Music | Festival Arabesques

  MEDIA PARTNERS: Al Akhbar | Light FM | Al Mustaqbal

  SPONSORS: Blue Sound | Red Booth Studio

  VENUE PARTNERS: Ballroom Blitz | Station Beirut | Zoukak Studio | Metro Al Madina | Dar el Nimer | Ar_ka | Onomatopeia | Hammana Artist House | Antwork | Mansion