PHOTO: © Charif Megarbane © Mohamad Al-Rifai

Foggy Notion: Charif Megarbane

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With his DIY musical ethos, Charif Megarbane has created an inimitable style of instrumental music, a melting pot of global sounds that glides effortlessly between 1960s Italian library music, psychedelic sounds from the Middle East, Afro-beat and hip-hop breaks. Megarbane refers to this as "Lebrary" music: a vision of Lebanon and the Mediterranean expressed through the kaleidoscopic approach of library music.

Megarbane's innovative instrumentals draw on his diverse musical influences, from the fuzz-soaked guitar riffs of blaxploitation films and the percussive rhythms of West African funk to Lebanese belly dance psych and 1960s European film scores - all reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. In just over a decade, Megarbane has released over 100 albums under various names on his own Hisstology imprint, offering an experimental musical diary of his late-night improv sessions recorded in Beirut, Nairobi, Paris, London and Lisbon - the various cities he calls home. Megarbane takes a novel, playful, mind-expanding approach to composition, characterized by sophisticated but spontaneous instrumentation and unfiltered improvisation - a conscious resistance to the modern commercialization of music and a welcome counterweight to the polished, digital overproduction that defines today's industry.

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JAKI Venloer Str. 40 50672 Köln

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