Omarchestra: A Tribute to Omar Khorshid, by Omarchestra

Omarchestra: A Tribute to Omar Khorshid

by Omarchestra

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Initiated by Charbel Haber, Orchestra Omar is now the very first guitar ensemble to emerge from the Middle East. though the core of the ensemble is Lebanese, the line-up (7 guitar players + 1 electric bass) includes Egypt's Maurice Louca and Turkey's Umut Caglar. this is their very 1st album, consisting of three tracks loosely based on Omar Khorshid's music.

This band also led to form Karkhana.

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"Sometimes we open our ears to other stuff than jazz, and if it's really worthwhile (I mean, bringing really something of interest to fans of music that breaks boundaries), we review the music.

This album is of interest for various reasons. First, it's a electric guitar band from the Middle East, with only guitar players : Charbel Haber, Fadi Tabbal, Osman Arabi, Shari Sehnaoui and Tony Elieh (on bass guitar) from Lebanon, Umut Caçlar from Turkey, Maurice Louca from Egypt, and Sam Shalabi from Canada (and of Egyptian origin). Second, as you might have guessed, they represent some of the most adventurous musicians of the region. Third, they don't give a damn about stylistic purity, giving us a wonderful mix of prog rock, electroacoustic, noise and dark psychedelia, inspired by the guitar of the late Egyptian musician Omar Khorsid.

The music is composed, with a quite repetitive basis, over which the various guitars start adding additional themes and phrases, but without actually soloing. The result is highly rhythmic, hypnotic and haunting music, dragging you along in either ecstasy of absolute doom, depending on the listener and on what part of the music he/she is listening to. If you think that eight electric guitars would be too much, I would recommend that you listen to it, and unlike so many jam bands they avoid the absolute chaos of too many voices, instead developing the compositions in a very controlled and disciplined way, adding little touches, some color, some piercing solos, some additional arpeggios, over the relentlessly hammering chords."

www.freejazzblog.org/2015/05/many-and-meta-orchestra-omar-i-never.html

credits

released February 2, 2015

Electric Bass – Tony Elieh
Electric Guitar – Charbel Haber, Maurice Louca, Osman Arabi, Sam Shalabi, Sharif Sehnaoui, Umut Çağlar, Fadi Tabbal

All music composed by Charbel Haber.
Recorded by Fadi Tabbal on Feb. 21st & 22nd, 2014 at the Bustros Palace, Beirut, Lebanon.

| released originally as LP through Sagittarius A-Star in 2017
| sagittariusastarrecords.altervista.org

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Umut Çağlar İstanbul, Turkey

Dj, visual artist, guitar/woodwinds player and co-founder of experimental bands Konstrukt and Karkhana. He has also recorded two duet albums with Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) and Graham Massey (of 808 State).

KARKHANA:
karkhana.bandcamp.com

KONSTRUKT:
sptfy.com/KuAI

DAILY BANDCAMP:
daily.bandcamp.com/features/konstrukt-and-keiji-haino-a-philosophy-warping-feature ... more