Lebanese oud player and pro-Palestinian singer Marcel Khalife on tour again

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It's good that you got in the background about the variety of work he's done. It's not easy to wrap that up. He's almost a pop star, in a sense, but that would be a very misleading description.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Thursday, 15 January 2004 05:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

I loaned the new CD to a co-worker and she said it sounded like jazz lite mixed with Lebanese lite. Yes, it is a little on the light side, although I don't see anything "Lebanese lite" about the Arabic elements in it. There are passages of solo oud playing which are no more light than anything typically played along those lines. I kind of hate loaning stuff to people who mostly like and listen to classical music.

(Someone else I loaned it to at work liked it a lot anyway.)

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

At the moment I am still very taken with the first four cuts on this, and how they flow together, and the surprisingly free jazz like interlude of track 2. Very nice stuff.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 02:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

4 years pass...

He's gonna be back in DC at the Kennedy Center again, but this time playing with an orchestra (as part of the Arabesque festival). Should be good.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 03:54 (4 years ago) Permalink

You are a very systematic thread reviver!

― _Rockist__Scientist_, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 23:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

My attempt to see if I could get your attention and hopefully others as well.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 12 February 2009 05:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

This comes after a major Formula One race was canceled and a renowned Lebanese composer and oud player, Marcel Khalife, pulled out of the annual Bahrain Spring of Culture series, most of which was canceled as the protests and killings continued into March.

From a Washington Post article

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 12:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

Marcel Khalife has a nice double cd out now. I like the songs with vocals best. The European classical sounding numbers and the ones with a tad of jazz influences are not bad, but I like the Lebanese/middle-eastern ones best. Public radio network PRI had a recnet interview with him that might be online. I was away and missed his latest W. DC appearance Saturday at the Warner Theatre.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 16:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

Just realized that only two of us have ever posted on this thread. Oh well.

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 18:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

No Washington Post review of this year's DC gig. I do not think they have had a review of him, since well, I did one for them.

Khalife is a big deal in some circles.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 20:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

Almost unbelievably, in 2010 he put out a new version of Caress with the two weakest, most problematic tracks removed. How often does that happen?

http://www.amazon.com/Caress-Khalife-Marcel/dp/B001MRMT5O/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1351965518&sr=1-2&keywords=Marcel+Khalife+Caress

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 3 November 2012 18:01 (6 months ago) Permalink

It's on Spotify along with my favorite of his albums, At the Border.

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 3 November 2012 18:07 (6 months ago) Permalink

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