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After London and Marseille 07, Tapis-Volant will be held in theater Babel- Hamra on 31st of January, 1st and 2nd of February and on the 4th of February in Damascus Cultural Capital 2008.
31st of January
@ 8:30 PM Claude Chalhoub (Lebanon) - Chamber Orchestra Performing his original compositions for solo violin and string orchestra
1st of February
@ 8 PM Manufactur (Switzerland) - Post Fusion/ Canceled because of the political situation
@ 9 PM Kirika (Turkey) – Folk Music of the City
@ 10 PM Sakia (Algeria) – Gnawa
2nd of February
@ 8 PM Abdullah Chhade (UK) – Quanune
@ 9 PM Moneim (Palestine) – Soufi
@ 10 PM Under Kontrol (France) – Beat Box
FREE ENTRANCE
A seminar will be held on the 1st and 2nd of February in Metropolis Cinema- Hamra, from 4PM till 7PM, in order to debate the issues surrounding the production of music and to put international young managers in contact with Lebanese managers and producers.
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SPONSERS
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PHOTO GALLERY  view slide show
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PROFILE
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Tapis-Volant is a project consecutively taking place in different cities around the world and gives us the opportunity for artistic exchange and dynamic dialogue.
Artists travel and visit each other; they discover in themselves outside of their cultural context. Later, they also give their public in their own countries a chance to listen and discover the result of this exchange, leading to musical dialogue and communication between cultures through music.
So far, Tapis-Volant has taken place in 2 cities: London on 16 October07, Marseille on 27 October07 and Beirut on 31 January, 1 and 2 February08.
A conference will be settled to debate the issues surrounding the production of music and to put international young managers in contact with Lebanese managers and producers. We would like to foster a dialogue with different methods of musical management in different cultural contexts. As well as to talk about author rights issues and other pertinent questions related to the production of music.
A lot of creative musicians in the Arab world don’t know how to protect their work and to live from it. Many work several jobs just to survive, therefore cutting down on time that could have been otherwise spent on building a musical reputation.
The seminar will be chaired by Luc Mayitoukou from Senegal. Beginning in 1998 as an administrator and lecturer in Africa Fete in the field of management, Mayitoukou is also an instructor and has helped set up and oversee programs in Métiers des Arts de la Scène in Guinea, Burkina Faso and Mali.
Tapis-Volant is a unique collaboration between: In Concert (Beirut, Lebanon), A.M.I-Centre de Développement pour les Musiques Actuelles (Marseille, France), Hodage - Middle East Musical Creations (Gaza, Palestine), SantralIstanbul (Istanbul, Turkey), and Serious Events LTD (London, UK).
Tapis-Volant is supported by La Fondation Euro-Méditerranéenne Anna Lindh.
Program of the festival
Claude Chalhoub (Lebanon) – Chamber Orchestra
Performing his original compositions for solo violin and string orchestra At the age of eighteen, Claude Chalhoub was awarded the prestigious Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother Scholarship, which enabled him to pursue his studies at the Royal College of Music in London.
In 1997, for his final recital, he chose a self-penned composition, Oriental Images, which won him the First Prize for Best Performance.
In 1999, Claude was invited to Weimar in Germany to join the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Barenboim chose Claude as musical director of the orchestra, a career-making coup for such a young conductor and composer.
In the summer of 2000 he began work on his debut record, which features Pakistani singer Forroukh Fateh Ali Khan, the brother of the legendary Nusrat.
In 2006 he performed his original composition “Two Angels” with the Holland Simfonia and the national ballet of Holland. Chalhoubs new recording is scheduled for release with Herzog Records in March, 2008. www.worldmusicnet.net/claudechalhoub.html
Manufactur (Switzerland) – Post Fusion / CANCELED Werner Hasler (trumpet), Oli Kuster (electronics), Urban Lienert (bass), Dominik Burkhalter (drums)
Wry cynicism, intellect and humor: together these three guarantee Manufactur’s collective and individual virtuosity. Reggae leftovers, bleeping space-music, laid back rock drumming, sophisticated bass playing, Jazz, virtuoso trumpet babble, modernistic electronics, danceables next to almost songlike structures; monotony and free flow, repetition and action in perpetual change – you won’t hear anything like it anywhere else. www.manufactur.ch
KIRIKA (Turkey)
Salih Nazim Peker (vocals, saz), Hasan Devrim Kinli (base guitar, vocals), Orcun Basturk (drums, cymbals, backing vocals), Sarp Keskiner (e-guitar, xylophone, backing vocals), Murat Ferhat Yegul (trombone, ney)
Nourished equally by traditional forms and innovative modern stylings, Kirika presents original Agean music in a completely new manner. Mainly inspired by the music that emerged at the end of the 19th century from the Ottoman Empire’s most cosmopolitan cities like Istanbul and Smyrna, Kirikia’s forms are most decidedly 21st century, making for music that could be described as the “folk music of the city”. www.myspace.com/kirikasmyrna
SAKIA (Algeria) - GNAWA
Leader of the group, composer and author Joe Batoury is a singer with a velveteen voice. He began his career as a Hip-Hop artist in 1995, becoming the first MC in Algeria. Later, Joe came back to the source, working on the Gumbri, one of the traditional music instruments in Gnawa. With no limits or preconceived borders to their performance style, the Sakia group perform both acoustically and amplified with sequencers, bringing Gnawa, Afro-Jazz, electric music and hip-hop together in a sound wholly unique to them. www.myspace.com/tribusakia
Abdullah Chhadeh (UK) - Quanune
Abdullah Chhadeh (qanun and vocals), Sherif Ibrahim (percussion), Mounir Baziz (violin)
Born in Damascus, Syria, Chhadeh has built an international reputation on his versatility, inventiveness and technical brilliance. He has single-handedly redesigned the Qanun, a traditional oriental stringed instrument, with the addition of an octave, enabling him to play a wide variety of Middle Eastern classical music, from the Turkish, Azerbaijani and Persian to the Arabic and Andalusian repertoires. He has also appeared as a guest musician on several albums with international artists, including Natacha Atlas. www.abdullahchhadeh.com
Moneim Adwan (Palestine) - Soufi
Moneim Adwan (vocals, oud), Mathias Autexier (percussion), Sayed Ghoneimy Shaban (kawâla/ney)
Moneim Adwan was born in Rafah, Palestine, in the Gaza Strip near the Egyptian frontier. Adwan’s songs are largely inspired by the musical heritage of the historical Al-Châm region (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine) and by classical Arab repertory. His songs present elegant portraits of daily Palestinian life and speak of peace and love. www.moneimadwan.com UNDER
KONTROL (France) - quatuor human beatbox
Mr. Lips/Fayabraz/MicFlow/Tiko Four activists from the French beatbox scene, came together to create the vocal project Under Kontrol. Their only instruments are their voices and their mics, sometimes helped out by a Loopstation (live sampler) to create beats and loops. Juggling different music styles and ambient sound, Under Kontrol, live, offer a surprising and electrifying mix of soul/hip-hop/ragga/drum bass for true lovers of musical innovation.
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