SIHR by Frédéric D. Oberland, Grégory Dargent, Tony Elieh, Wassim Halal released on Sub Rosa in 2024.

"SIHR" : sonic manifesto by a post-anything quartet feat. multi-instrumentalists from the Mediterranean inland Sea.
New folklore for a devastated planet, including members of Oiseaux-Tempête, H, Karkhana, Polyphème..

After a few concerts/screenings improvised as a duo in Cairo and Beirut, as well as for the Rencontres d'Arles, the Lille photography center and the Belgian magazine Halogénure, Dargent and Oberland have teamed up with mavericks Elieh and Halal for a puzzling cross-border manifesto. The first sonic moves of this eclectic quartet, made in a bunker studio somewhere between Paris and Berlin, urgently took the form of a quest, that of a neo-folklore for troubled times...

https://dargentoberland.bandcamp.com/album/sihr-37-records-of-the-year-2024-the-wire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRsC0urxlLs&list=OLAK5uy_m9vyMBnELvbchbLQ__wrnfsDyrzuY8cYM

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For Seun Matta by Karkhana, released on Holidays Records in 2017.

Featuring some of the most innovative musicians from Beirut, Cairo, Istanbul and Chicago, Karkhana's seven multi- instrumentalists build a transcendental atmosphere, developing what could possibly be called "free Middle Eastern music".

Umut Çağlar: Reeds, Flute, Percussion
Tony Elieh: Electric Bass
Maurice Louca: Organ, Synth
Mazen Kerbaj: Trumpet, Percussion, Reeds
Sam Shalabi: Electric Guitar, Oud
Sharif Sehnaoui: Electric Guitar
Michael Zerang: Drums, Percussion, Cymbal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMEEdzXTWUg&list=RDPMEEdzXTWUg&start_radio=1

#karkhana #Beirut #cairo #istanbul #chicago #improvisation #samshalabi #MichaelZerang #UmutÇağlar
#MauriceLouca #SharifSehnaoui #MazenKerbaj #TonyElieh