{"id":94384,"date":"2021-12-10T17:05:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=94384"},"modified":"2021-12-10T17:08:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:08:18","slug":"mazen-kerbaj-blue-malediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/mazen-kerbaj-blue-malediction\/","title":{"rendered":"Mazen Kerbaj invites Deena Abdelwahed on \u201cBlue Malediction\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Between music and visual arts, the Berlin artist announces an album in collaboration with the Ugandan Don Zilla, the Jamaican Gavsborg or the Tunisian Deena Abdelwahed.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Morphine Records shares today <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/deena-abdelwahed\/\">Deena Abdelwahed<\/a> and Mazen Kerbaj\u2019s new track \u201cBlue Malediction\u201d. The piece serves as a teaser to Kerbaj\u2019s upcoming album, which will feature Nyege Nyege&#8217;s Donzilla Lion, Equiknoxx founder Gavsborg, Palestine&#8217;s Muqata\u2019a, and many others. <em>Sampler \/ Sampled<\/em> can be seen as two interdependent albums. The first part of the project, Sampler, is a trumpet solo album that catalogues the extended techniques Mazen Kerbaj developed in the past 25 years; it consists of 318 pieces ranging from less than a second to forty seconds each, presenting different sonic materials. The second part of the project is the composition sampled for a musician working with loops.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1174676521&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=false\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/morphinerecords\" title=\"Morphine Records\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Morphine Records<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/morphinerecords\/deena-abdelwahed-and-mazen-kerbaj-blue-malediction\" title=\"Deena Abdelwahed and Mazen Kerbaj \u2013 Blue Malediction\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Deena Abdelwahed and Mazen Kerbaj \u2013 Blue Malediction<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Beirut-born, Berlin-based Mazen Kerbaj is a comics author, visual artist, musician, trumpet player, and experimental music initiator in Lebanon. His practice is improvisational and performative, visual or sound, and he is behind the Irtijal festival and Al Maslakh label in Lebanon since early 00s.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sampler \/ Sampled<\/em> by Mazen Kerbaj, out on February 25, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"907\" height=\"909\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mazen-sampler-sampled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-94376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mazen-sampler-sampled.jpg 907w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mazen-sampler-sampled-759x761.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mazen-sampler-sampled-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mazen-sampler-sampled-661x662.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mazen-sampler-sampled-465x466.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mazen-sampler-sampled-375x376.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mazen-sampler-sampled-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mazen-sampler-sampled-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/mazen-sampler-sampled-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between music and visual arts, the Berlin artist announces an album in collaboration with the Ugandan Don Zilla, the Jamaican Gavsborg or the Tunisian Deena Abdelwahed.&nbsp; Morphine Records shares today Deena Abdelwahed and Mazen Kerbaj\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":94379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4846,4096,41076],"location":[8110],"yst_prominent_words":[8403,37344,8933,8435,25217,24714,9159,8400,13335],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94384"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=94384"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=94384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}