DESCRIPTION:
This is the trio of Mazen, Raed and Charbel performing live at the Goethe-Institute in Beirut, Lebanon-January, 2006. Mazen runs the Al-Maslakh record label out of Beirut which is home to the growing experimental/new music scene there. Visit www.almaslakh.org. Also visit the blogs of Mazen and Raed:
http://mazenkerblog.blogspot.com/ and http://www.raedyassin.blogspot.com/
And hear mp3s of Raed Yassin's recorded in Beirut as they happen at:
www.porestsound.net/yassin

Right now, these guys are all still alive in Beirut- while their country is being brutally decimated by Israel and the U.S.
This piece was performed as a homage to Samir Kassir, a journalist friend who was assassinated by a deadly car bombing on july 2nd 2005. The piece features recordings of his voice and sounds from the million-person anti-Syrian occupation demonstration in Beirut's center last april (2005).


Note: This is an updated version of the clip. Previously I had mistaken Charbel Haber for Sherif Sehnoui (another great Lebanese musician who collaborates with these guys). This is the corrected clip. Pass it on....