Mazen Kerbaj

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Mazen Kerbaj during the Irtijal Festival 2010

Mazen Kerbaj (* 1975 in Beirut ) is a Lebanese improvisation musician ( trumpet ), music producer , author and cartoonist .

Live and act

Mazen Kerbaj works as a comic artist, painter and musician; After various contributions to magazines (such as Wire , Lapin and Le tour du monde en bande dessinee ), he published his first book, Journal 1999 , in 2000 , a diary in comic form, as well as over eight other books and short story collections. His paintings, drawings and caricatures have been exhibited many times, including in the Janine Rubeiz gallery in Beirut and in the gallery of the New Society for Fine Arts in Berlin. In the summer of 2016, the temporary, independent exhibition initiative Café Beirut of the Griesbadgalerie in Ulm exhibited Mazen Kerbaj's drawings from 2012, when he captured every day of the year in a picture.

Mazen Kerbaj is also a co-founder of the Lebanese improvisation scene, for example as a member of the musicians' organization MILL , which has held the annual Irtijal Festival in Beirut since 2001 . In 2004 he co-founded the Al Maslakh Ensemble (with Paed Conca , among others ), in 2005 Al Maslakh was the first label for improvisation music in this region; In 2009 the sub-label Johnny Kafta's Kids Menu followed for alternative and experimental rock from Lebanon. Since 2000 Kerbaj has appeared as a soloist and in various band projects in the Middle East, Europe and the United States, for example with Sharif Sehnaoui , Franz Hautzinger , Lê Quan Ninh , Mats Gustafsson , Guillermo Gregorio , Gene Coleman , Michael Zerang ( Cedarhead , 2006) , Fred Lonberg-Holm , Michael Bullock , Vic Rawlings, David Stackenäs , Martin Küchen , Axel Dörner , Jarrod Cagwin , Thomas Lehn , Joe McPhee , Raymond Boni , John Butcher and Martin Blume .

Discographic notes

  • Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui & Raed Yassine: A (cd-thèque, 2003)
  • Franz Hautzinger / Mazen Kerbaj: Abu Tarek (Creative Sources, 2004)
  • Mazen Kerbaj, Christine Sehnaoui, Sharif Sehnaoui & Ingar Zach : Rouba3i5 (Al Maslakh, 2005)
  • Brt Vrt Zrt Krt (Al Maslakh, 2005) solo
  • Mazen Kerbaj / Birgit Ulher / Sharif Sehnaoui: 3: 1 (Creative Sources, 2008)

Publications (selection)

  • Mazen Kerbaj: Beyrouth, juillet – août 2006 . L'Association BD
  • Mazen Kerbaj, Lenia Major: Suffit la bagarre! Edition Samir, 2012
  • Mazen Kerbaj: Lettre à la mère (working title Plus jamais ). Ed. Apocalypse, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Solo exhibition Now! ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Janine Rubeiz gallery @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.galeriejaninerubeiz.com
  2. ↑ Group exhibition theater of peace in the gallery of the New Society for Fine Arts
  3. ↑ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: One drawing per day: Mazen Kerbaj exhibits in the Ulmer Café Beirut . In: swp.de . ( swp.de [accessed on September 7, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Kerbaj, Mazen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese improvisation musician (trumpet), music producer, author and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut