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The first time I saw Lebanese-French pianist-composer Rami Khalife and Syrian clarinetist-composer Kinan Azmeh play together was in 2006 at La Pena in Berkeley where I had a revelation.

Music is first and foremost sound and everything we think about it later is just thinking.

Bachar Khalife was born in Lebanon in , Bachar Khalife is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and Franco Lebanese singer.

Lebanese oud virtuoso Marcel Khalife is known throughout the world as an artistic revolutionary and cultural icon — except in the U.S.

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This album is the recording of Bachar Mar-Khalifé's last concert in trio, given on December 17, A concert like any other: generous, fiery.

Martin Delemazure, the managing director of Paris-based composer agency Grande Ourse.

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These things came to mind when I caught the truly iconic Lebanon-born Paris-based oud-master-composer-singer Marcel Khalife ( b.1950 ), and his Paris-based sons Rami ( b.1981) and pianist-percussionist-singer Bachar Mar-Khalife ( b.1983 ) on the fifth stop of their seven city 2016 US tour sponsored by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

We like to think that the Middle East is a “hot mess” as if we could just sit back and do our nails because we’re — well — superior, but music always clarifies our shared humanity. We can debate the strengths or faults of Schoenberg’s New V