'A' Trio - The Shape of Jazz That Came

'Deena Abdelwahed and Mazen Kerbaj - Blue Malediction' is from forthcoming

Sampler / Sampled
Mazen Kerbaj Trumpet Solo Vol. 3 ft Deena

Abdelwahed, Rabih Beaini, Fari Bradley, dieb13, DJ Sniff, Gavsborg (Equiknoxx), Electric Indigo, Donzilla Lion (Nyege Nyege), Marina Rosenfeld, Microhm, Muqata’a, Bob Ostertag, Rrose

DOSER042LP -- 2xLP/2xCD/digital
Morphine Records -- February 25, 2022

A / 1. Mazen Kerbaj - Sampler Side A
B / 2. Mazen Kerbaj - Sampler Side B
C1 / 3. Deena Abdelwahed and Mazen Kerbaj - Blue Malediction
C2 / 4. Dieb 13 and Mazen Kerbaj - Norm Hollows Function
C3 / 5. Rrose and Mazen Kerbaj - Pendulum
C4 / 6. Marina Rosenfeld and Mazen Kerbaj - Untitled
C5 / 7. Rabih Beaini and Mazen Kerbaj - Chainsaw
C6 / 8. Donzilla Lion and Mazen Kerbaj - Time Traveler
D1 / 9. DJ Sniff and Mazen Kerbaj - Trumpet Zoo
D2 / 10. Electric Indigo and Mazen Kerbaj - Mazen's Trumpet
D3 / 11. Muqata'a and Mazen Kerbaj - Untitled
D4 / 12. Microhm and Mazen Kerbaj - Dreams of Dust
D5 / 13. Fari Bradley and Mazen Kerbaj - The sign to Return is in the Earth's Spin
D6 / 14. Gavsborg and Mazen Kerbaj - Now Serving #8190
D7 / 15. Bob Ostertag and Mazen Kerbaj - Untitled

Deena Abdelwahed and Mazen Kerbaj – Blue Malediction

Trumpet solo
Recorded on 17th of june at the Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche. 
The church was empty, with no audience. Actually with nobody except myself and a pair of mics.

Unprocessed Reality (take 3) – for Evan Parker - Trumpet solo (2014)

a minimalistic improvisation by:
mazen kerbaj / trumpet
the israeli air force / bombs

recorded by mazen kerbaj on the balcony of his flat in beirut,
on the night of 15th to 16th of july 2006.
© mazen kerbaj 2006

STARRY NIGHT (excerpt) 6.31 min

Dörner, Hautzinger, Kerbaj & Hübsch - Hamra Drinks

Excerpt from "Meet The Dragon".

Sharif Sehanoui - acoustic guitar
Adam Golebiewski - drum, cymbal

Recorded February 2015 by Bartek Olszewski; Poznań, Poland. Mixed and mastered by Fadi Tabbal at Tunefork Studios, Beirut, Lebanon. Artwork and design by Mazen Kerbaj.

Sharif Sehnaoui / Adam Golebiewski - Meet The Dragon [excerpt]

Das B. 
Mazen Kerbaj: trumpet
Magda Mayas: piano
Mike Majkowski: double-bass
Tony Buck: drums

recorded live at exploratorium, berlin, on 1st of may 2016

Das B. live at Exploratorium Berlin (excerpt)

Mazen Kerbaj: trumpet
Ute Wassermann: voice

A couple of days after the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown, Ute Wassermann and Mazen Kerbaj started thinking of ways to play together from a distance. Shortly after, they settled on the following format: every day each of them records a one minute solo, while thinking of the other. At the end of the week, they put the 7 solos together with no further alterations. Here is Week One (a full album with 4 weeks and two bonuses will be released soon).

Telepathic Duo with Ute Wassermann – Week 1

Two of the most exciting innovators of the trumpet, Nate Wooley and Mazen Kerbaj perform solo and duo at a performance produced by ISSUE Project Room in September 2012 at Our Lady Of Lebanon Cathedral in Brooklyn Heights.

Nate Wooley’s solo playing has often been cited as being a part of an international revolution in improvised trumpet. Along with Peter Evans and Greg Kelley, Wooley is considered one of the leading lights of the American movement to redefine the physical boundaries of the horn. A combination of vocalization, extreme extended technique, noise and drone aesthetics, amplification and feedback, and compositional rigor, Wooley has been called “an iconoclastic trumpeter” (Time Out NY), and "one of the most interesting and unusual trumpet players living today...without hyperbole” (Dave Douglas).

Mazen Kerbaj is many things: a musician, a producer of comic books, a visual artist, a voice for Lebanese music, and a proponent of the fleeting nature of live and improvised music. He came to international attention in the last ten years through his founding of the Irtijal Festival in Beirut, which was followed by the record label, Al Maslakh and now Johnny Kafta’s Kids Menu, which features music by Lebanese musicians almost exclusively. Leading the charge to re-shape world improvisational language. Kerbaj’s own trumpet playing holds its own special place within the current improvisational practices on the instrument. He sidesteps the two predominant branches of practice of the new generation, those of virtuosity and anti-virtuosity, and finds a third path in which the horn truly becomes alien, speaking a language of its own.

This podcast was produced in collaboration with the radio station of the Clocktower Gallery, operating at artonair.org

Nate Wooley & Mazen Kerbaj Live at ISSUE, 9/2012

Mazen Kerbaj - Tagadagadaga

ISSUE Project Room is a non-profit center for innovation, discovery, development, and presentation of new music, sound, dance, performance, literature, video, and film.

The brainchild of Lebanese free improv musicians and childhood friends Mazen Kerbaj and Sharif Sehnaoui, "Al Maslakh" (The Slaughterhouse, in Arabic) is a UFO created to publish the unpublishable in the Lebanese artistic scene

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