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Rabih Abou-Khalil: Trouble in Jerusalem – review

(Enja)Rabih Abou-Khalil, the Beirut-born oud player, has always had an affection for the incongruous, and his own genre-mashing bands are exhilarating mavericks. This is a different story. Some might be intrigued by the historical context: a brief episode of Judeo-Christian-Islamic harmony from the Third Crusades celebrated in the 1922 German silent film Nathan the Wise, and rekindled by Abou-Khalil's TV-commissioned symphonic score for that movie. Abou-Khalil plays incisively over Michel Goda...

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22:00 on January 6 2011

Rabih Abou-Khalil: Trouble in Jerusalem – review

Guardian Music — (Enja)Rabih Abou-Khalil, the Beirut-born oud player, has always had an affection for the incongruous, and his own genre-mashing bands are exhilarating mavericks. This is... more info

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