stringmanca - 2-27-2007 at 11:53 AM
Marcel Khalife's new CD, Taqasim, will be featured on the Weekend Planet on March 11th.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/stories/2007/1857401.htm
al-Halabi - 3-14-2007 at 03:45 PM
This is a very nice CD, with some beautifully expressive oud improvisations exploring a whole range of maqams. Unlike his instrumental composition
Jadal, in which Marcel Khalife sought to demonstrate that the oud could work in polyphonic settings typical of Western music, this one-hour
composition is grounded in the traditional taqsim tradition. An upright bass and percussion provide the accompaniment, at times with jazzy effects,
but the oud dominates.
zalzal - 3-15-2007 at 12:04 AM
And the link to youtube short video clip which probably everybody has already seen it but still i posted here in case someone has not yet fallen on it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brEzFM8m__A
Shadi - 10-8-2008 at 02:27 PM
haha really. Who hasn't seen that yet?
JamesOud - 10-10-2008 at 03:06 PM
I am a Marcel Khalife fan since the Jadal masterpiece. But I must say this new recording was really un-impressive for and disappointing. I found the
music was quite boring actually. I hated the overdubs which made it feel fake.
Some of it was nice, partly the solo oud but the recording felt artificial for me.
Confused James