Below The Radar 02
Track 4
"Reductionism"
previously unreleased
Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet) and Sharif Sehnaoui (guitar) started playing music together in Beirut in 1997. Besides their long lasting duo, they are involved in other collaborative projects, such as The A Trio with double bass player Raed Yassin, and The Oriental Space Quartet with Franz Hautzinger and Helge Hinteregger.
In 2000 they created the MILL association for the promotion of free improvised music in Lebanon, and in 2001 they launched Irtijal, the first and only experimental music festival in the region. In 2004 they joined forces again for the creation of Al Maslakh (The Slaughterhouse), a label solely dedicated to improvisation and sonic experiments from Lebanon. Al Maslakh will soon reveal its sister label, Johnny Kafta’s Kids Menu, dedicated to experimental rock.