Ibrahim Maalouf, Oxmo Puccino – Au pays d’Alice… (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:51 minutes | 655 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Au Pays d’Alice… is a jazz musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Accompanying Ibrahim Maalouf on this adventure is the Malian-born rapper-poet-actor Oxmo Puccino, who narrates the tale. Rich with influences from multiple genres and cultures, the work offers a stunning adaptation of Carroll’s story. It features a wide range of musicians including a thirty piece classical orchestra and the children’s choir of Radio France. Make no mistake, this recording is a musical event. Maalouf and Puccino take listeners through the looking-glass into a new and exciting sound world.
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Ibrahim Maalouf – S3NS (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:57 minutes | 519 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Ibrahim Maalouf plunges into his new adventure S3NS (his 11th studio album) with the impertinent freedom that only independent artists can still afford. This self-produced collection follows the same logical sequence of creative artisanal construction as all Ibrahim Maalouf’s previous albums, with striking Latin American influences from the very first track. In the past, Ibrahim has the chance to work with many South American artists including the Chilean ?ngel Parra – son of the great poetess Violetta Parra – with whom he recorded a whole album more than 17 years ago, and Lhasa De Sela, whose incredible Mexican-American voice who charmed the whole world on The Living Road. Along the way, Ibrahim has also worked with a number of Cuban artists, including Raul Paz, Ernesto Tito Puentes, Omar Sosa and Ibeyi, to name but a few. On this new album, Ibrahim is surrounded by highly talented guests, notably three virtuosos from the new generation of Cuban pianists – Harold Lopez Nussa, Alfredo Rodriguez and Roberto Fonsec – as well as the saxophonist Irving Acao and the violinist and singer Ylilian Canizares. So S3NS seems like an obvious move. Not really jazz, not exactly pop and sometimes rock, Ibrahim Maalouf offers us hybrid, fresh, nostalgic but always unclassifiable music?The real thing from Maalouf, with plenty of Latin flavour!
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Ibrahim Maalouf – Red & Black Light (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:00 minutes | 767 MB | Genre: Jazz
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« RED & BLACK LIGHT» est une ode à la femme d’aujourd’hui et à son rôle fondateur et fondamental pour espérer un avenir meilleur. Les femmes de ma famille ont eu, et ont encore aujourd’hui, une influence incommensurable sur tout mon travail musical. Notamment parce qu’elles m’inspirent considérablement dans leur façon de gérer leur quotidien et celui de leur entourage. Malgré des vies en labyrinthes, complexes et souvent dramatiques, elles portent en elles une force et une stabilité similaires à une forme de transe inébranlable. Elles me donnent l’impression de ne jamais perdre de vue ce qui est essentiel.
Axé sur une esthétique plus actuelle, plus électro, voire pop, cet album est constitué de mes compositions ainsi que d’une reprise de la diva d’aujourd’hui Beyonce. Bien qu’étant particulièrement complexes dans leur écriture (avec des polyrythmies en 19, 17 ou 27 temps par exemple), nous avons arrangé ces musiques (avec les 3 musiciens qui m’entourent), de manière à ce que jamais le poids de l’écriture ne se fasse entendre. Nous avons donc contourné le piège de l’élitisme et de l’écriture scientifique pour élaborer un album transparent et limpide, sur lequel le public peut même danser ou chanter, mais qui regorge néanmoins d’une multitude de superpositions insoupçonnées de thèmes, d’harmonies et de rythmes, que seule une lecture mathématique de l’album pourrait trahir.
Enregistré à Ivry sur seine (France) avec Eric Legnini (Claviers), François Delporte (Guitare) et Stephane Galland (Batterie), cet album est avant tout une envie de dessiner l’importance et la nécessaire complexité des choses et des personnes essentielles
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Ibrahim Maalouf – Levantine Symphony No. 1 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:14 minutes | 914 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Heralded by The New York Times as a “virtuoso of the quarter-tone trumpet,” Maalouf gracefully marries musical traditions from his native Lebanon and his adopted France, blending Levantine melodies with modern jazz improvisations. In 2016, he performed at the Lincoln Center, alongside pianist Frank Woeste, saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Clarence Penn, in an unforgettable tribute to Oum Kalthoum, the legendary Egyptian vocalist.
Performing with Maalouf this evening is the Free Spirit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Rossi, the National Children’s Chorus, and the pianist Ji.
The New Levant Initiative commissioned Levantine Symphony N°1 to celebrate the vibrant and shared identity of the Levant. Maalouf describes this musical composition as an ode to the Levant. With his new work, Maalouf weaves together the threads that bind the people of the Levant together not only in music and poetry, but also in a shared collective identity and memory, with the hope that a progressive and integrated new Levant will thrive once again.
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Ibrahim Maalouf – Illusions (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 52:27 minutes | 585 MB | Genre: Jazz
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A pioneering figure in the world of contemporary jazz thanks to his fusion of pop, soul, electro, hip-hop, and French chansons with the music of his Lebanese roots, Ibrahim Maalouf is widely regarded as one of the most gifted trumpeters of his generation.
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Ibrahim Maalouf – First Noel (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:13:25 minutes | 778 MB | Genre: Jazz
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As much as jazz musicians love to do it, the Christmas album exercise can quickly turn stale. Especially when you opt for a repertoire essentially composed of hits like Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Oh Christmas Tree, Il est né le divin enfant, Petit Papa Noël, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow, Silent Night and Jingle Bells. But here, Ibrahim Maalouf has managed to create an impeccable record that gives his trumpet an even better showcase than usual. The starting point of the project is a set of very personal values. “It’s an album of 25 great Christmas standards and 3 new songs that I wrote to celebrate both my son’s very first Christmas and my grandmother Odette’s very last one last year. My memories of Christmas are full of wonderful moments and I wanted to record the album in a way that would capture the magic of those moments.“
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Ibrahim Maalouf – Diasporas (2007/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:54 minutes | 463 MB | Genre: Jazz, World Fusion
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Paris-based trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf’s moody mix of jazz, groove and Lebanese traditional music comes across rather like a cut-up novel by William Burroughs or a collection of short stories by Paul Bowles, or at least a shot in that direction. Partly it’s the source material, in which Maalouf’s east Mediterranean musical heritage replaces those authors’ fascination with Morocco; partly it’s the structure of the album, in which a series of relatively brief, cross-referential tracks, most lasting between two and less than five minutes, are assembled in an episodic collage. Though carefully put together over three years, the music has an attractively rough-edged feel: hot, sun baked and m’hashish, as Moroccans would say (and as the title of the fourth track confirms).
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Ibrahim Maalouf – Diagnostic (2011/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:15 minutes | 655 MB | Genre: Jazz, World Fusion
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Following 2007’s Diasporas and 2009’s Diachronism, Beirut-born trumpeter and composer Ibrahim Maalouf rounds off his musical trilogy with his most personal effort to date, Diagnostic. Featuring 11 original compositions all inspired by his family, the winner of Discovery of the Year at the 2010 French Jazz Music Awards showcases his piano skills for the first time on another intriguing blend of Balkan brass, Latin jazz, funk-soul, classical, and heavy metal, which also features a collaboration with French rapper Oxmo Puccino (“Douce”). ~ Jon O’Brien
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Ibrahim Maalouf – Diachronism (2009/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:27 minutes | 566 MB | Genre: Jazz
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In 2005, before the release of his first album, Ibrahim began a work that seemed obvious. With his first album, Ibrahim had made an artistic proposal, but was far from having finished all he had to say. And this second album was the logical continuation of the first one. An evolution in the form of a question. “Do I have to evolve necessarily in a clear artistic direction: Oriental, or Occidental? Am I obliged by my origins to take refuge in the ease of the exotic? Ibrahim asks this question through an amazing process. One “DISORIENTAL” and the other “PARADOXIDENTAL”, and both treat the same question from two distinct angles. The first is the look of the oriental on the interbreeding with the west. The other is the Western’s view of miscegenation with the East. This album is according to Ibrahim a research work. Far from being an outcome, it is part of an artistic and intimate therapeutic approach.
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Ibrahim Maalouf – Dalida By Ibrahim Maalouf (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:54 minutes | 467 MB | Genre: Pop, Chanson
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“Dalida by Ibrahim Maalouf”, the new album of Ibrahim Maalouf. For the anniversary of the 30th anniversary of Dalida’s death, the Barclay label wished to entrust to Ibrahim Maalouf an original creation around his repertoire. Surrounded by his big band and prestigious guests (Alain Souchon, Ben L’Oncle Soul, Melody Gardot, Monica Bellucci, -M-, Izia, Mika, Thomas Dutronc, Rokia Traore, Arno and Golshifteh Farahani), the trumpet player, composer and French-Lebanese arranger went to get the essence of the titles of Dalida that he carefully selected, to rearrange them in his own way, with humility. The jazz approach of Ibrahim Maalouf sublimates the work of Dalida.
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Ibrahim Maalouf – 40 Melodies (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:32:35 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Jazz
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On November 6, 2020, the day after his 40th birthday, musician and composer Ibrahim Maalouf will unveil his 12th studio album entitled “40 melodies” in reference to his 40 candles.
The album is totally different from the previous projects of the artist since for the first time in 15 years of discography, Ibrahim proposes an intimate duo with his friend and collaborator of more than 10 years, the Belgian guitarist François Delporte.
The duo revisits Ibrahim’s melodies that have marked the spirits, both on his albums and on his B. O, but also some unreleased tracks. All with the appearance of a string of prestigious surprise guests (Sting, Matthieu Chedid, Marcus Miller, Alfredo Rodriguez, Richard Bona, Trilok Gurtu, Hüsnü Senlendrici, Jon Batiste, Arturo Sandoval, and many others).
Ibrahim returns to his origins and the essentials: a trumpet, a guitar and 40 melodies, to celebrate his 40th birthday.
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