IRTIJAL'16 - Spotlight on Germany
NEUE VOCALSOLISTEN; ZAD MOULTAKA; ZAID JABRI; SAMIR ODEH-TAMIMI; RABIH BEAINI & GUNTER "BABY" SOMMER; ANDREA NEUMANN; SALIM NAFFAH; SAWT-OUT (Beins/Kerbaj/Vorfeld); GRATKOWSKI 4TET (Gratkowski/Wierbos/Manderscheid/Hemingway); CODSI/ELIEH/TABBAL; BURKHARD BEINS; RAYAN HAIDAR; IGNAZ SCHICK; NASHAZ (Neumann/Sehnaoui/Thieke/Vorfeld); MAYAS/WASSERMANN/YASSIN; TONY ELIEH; TWO OR THE DRAGON (Abed Kobeissy & Ali Hout); RAED YASSIN & UTE WASSERMANN "Song Cookbook"; SENYAWA; MUNMA & FADI TABBAL; DANIELE DE SANTIS; RASHAD BECKER
Our strong focus on the vibrant Berlin scene was curated by Rabih Beaini and Mazen Kerbaj & made possible with the valuable support of Goethe Institute in Lebanon and the German Federal Foreign Office.
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Mar 31
8:30pm
@ Metro Al Madina
- Gratkowski 4tet (de/nl/usa)
* Frank Gratkowski: saxophones
* Wolter Wierbos: trombone
* Dieter Manderscheid: double-bass
* Gerry Hemingway: drums
Frank Gratkowski began playing the saxophone at the age of 16. In 1990, he started giving solo performances throughout Europe, Canada and the USA, and founded the Frank Gratkowski Trio in 1995, with German bassist Dieter Manderscheid and American drummer Gerry Hemingway. In 2000, the trio was extended into a quartet with Dutch trombonist Wolter Wierbos. The quartet aims to create a synthesis of musical composition and improvisation, where all instruments have equal functions to build a unified whole. Gratkowski is also a co-leader/composer of the Multiple Joy[ce] Orchestra. He has played in nearly every German and in numerous international jazz and contemporary music festivals, including Vancouver, Toronto, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Quebec and Nickelsdorf. He teaches saxophone at the Cologne, Berlin and Arnhem Conservatory of Music and gives workshops all around the world.
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- Sawt-Out (lb/de)
* Mazen Kerbaj: trumpet
* Burkhard Beins: percussion
* Michael Vorfeld: percussion
Mazen Kerbaj is a Lebanese comics artist, visual artist and musician. He is widely considered as one of the initiators and key players of the Lebanese free improvisation and experimental music scene. He is the co-founder and an active member of MILL, the cultural music association behind Irtijal, and the co-founder of Al Maslakh, the first label for experimental music in the region operating since 2005. As a trumpet player, whether in solo performances or with groups like “A” Trio, Kerbaj pushes the boundaries of his instrument and strives to develop a personal sound and an innovative language, following in the footsteps of pioneers like Bill Dixon, Axel Dörner and Franz Hautzinger.
Burkhard Beins lives in Berlin since 1995. As a composer/performer working in the fields of experimental music and sound art, he is known for his use of percussion in combination with selected sound objects. He also works with live electronics and analogue synthesizers. Alongside his solo work he is a member of the ensembles Polwechsel, Mensch Mensch Mensch, Activity Center, Glück, The Sealed Knot, Perlonex, Trio Sowari, Tree, Fracture Mechanics and Splitter Orchester. Beins gives lectures and workshops and has published several articles on music theory.
Michael Vorfeld is a sound and visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. He began playing music at age 14 upon buying a pair of bongos. His interest in percussion started in rock with the usual teen groups in high school, before eventually turning to experimental and improvised music. His music is centered on his use of bowed cymbals and homemade string instruments to create shimmering, microtonal music rich in overtones. His sound and light installations generally focus on the spatialization of light, using minimalist architecture and sound design to attain pure, crystalline shapes. He has performed in Europe, Japan, and America solo or with other improvisers and occasionally dancers.
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- Codsi/Elieh/Tabbal (lb)
* Marc Codsi: electric guitar
* Fadi Tabbal: electric guitar
* Tony Elieh: electric bass
Marc Codsi is a Lebanese composer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. He was a member of emblematic Lebanese rock band Scrambled Eggs for many years, before focusing his attention on electronic rock duo Lumi and his own solo activities. He released his first solo album in 2010, a calm and poetic manifesto entitled Faded Postcards, followed by Works & Coincidences in 2013. Codsi composed music for several film soundtracks, including Je Veux Voir (Khalil Joreige & Joana Hadjithomas), Beirut Hotel (Danielle Arbid), and most notably Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch).
Tony Elieh was also a member of Scrambled Eggs, one of Beirut’s most prolific and talented rock bands of the early 2000’s, and remained with the group from its beginnings until its precocious demise in 2015. Irtijal’16 witnesses the first reunion between Elieh and Codsi since the break-up of their former band. Elieh is nowadays a member of improvising experimental ensembles Karkhana and Johnny Kafta’s Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra, and divides his time between music and photography.
Fadi Tabbal is a Lebanese musician, producer and sound engineer, known for his numerous contributions to Beirut’s alternative music scene by way of the specialized studio he opened in 2006, called Tunefork. In addition to managing and handling all engineering tasks at Tunefork Studios, including full band recordings, live sound, production and music composition, Tabbal is a full-time member of several Lebanese rock bands, including The Incompetents, Under the Carpet and OMMM, and collaborates frequently with singer/songwriter Youmna Saba. He has released two solo albums, entitled On the Rooftop Looking Up (2013) and Museum of Imaginary Buildings (2015).
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TICKET PRICE 25.000 LBP (week days) / 30.000 LBP (Saturday) / FREE (Afternoon)
To buy your tickets from Ihjoz: https://www.ihjoz.com/events/1564
FESTIVAL PASS 70.000 LBP
Hotline: 03 910 209
To see the schedule of all the festival:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1866038763623114/
Partners: Ruptured; Tunefork Studios; Studio Safar; Illy; Al Madina Theater; Metro Al Madina; Beirut Art Center ; Onomatopoeia The Music Hub; Dawawine - دواوين; Yukunkun; Al Maslakh Records
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Sound engineer: Jawad Chaaban
Stage manager & light operator: Lara Nassar
Stage technician: Nabil Abou el Heijaa
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