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Hill Rag, CD Review >>
This is world renowned Lebanese musician Marcel Khalifé’s latest release — a tribute and an expression of fidelity from Mr. Khalifé to the poet Mahmoud Darwish. According to Mr. Khalife from the liner notes, “Taqasim is the fruit of a journey towards an apparition like a flower on a precipice to which I had reached out with my hand for some time, but had not dared to touch. With this work, I have overcome my timidity, giving way to a newfound daring as I dedicate it to Mahmoud, my friend and brother who had found his own daring long before I did. In Taqasim, I will try to reproduce, only as music can, the esthetical, spiritual, emotional, and intellectual resonance of Darwish’s poetry. Through a purely musical idiom, I will attempt to communicate what my singing voice has never been able to communicate in any setting of Darwish’s poems. I will ‘encode’ his poetry in a system of rhythm, melody, and harmony.”
-- by Jean-Keith Fagon 03/01/08 >> go there
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