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D​ö​ner Kebab

by Axel Dörner & Mazen Kerbaj

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1.
Döner 15:45
2.
Kebab 17:09
3.
Ayran 22:42

about

Axel Dörner and Mazen Kerbaj have been playing together since 2005, in duo and in various configurations. Their most reputed collaboration is brass quartet Ariha (with Franz Hautzinger on trumpet and Carl Ludwig Hübsch on tuba) which has released an album on Al Maslakh Records in 2015. Döner Kebab is their first album as a duo.

Döner Kebab was recorded in Berlin in 2017, and comprises three pieces; the first two are purely acoustic, while the third one sees both Kerbaj and Dörner adding electronics to their arsenal. However, those who are familiar with the two musicians’ previous works will not find it surprising to hear that the whole album sounds like it was made with electronic instruments. In recent years, Dörner and Kerbaj have developed their personal musical language and highly unique techniques for their instrument, the trumpet, which they manage to make sound like anything but a trumpet.

"It roars and rattles, hisses and hisses – a real joy, at least for lovers of freely improvised sound art. There is acoustic "Döner", "Kebab" and of course "Ayran", the latter (...) with a bit of electronics. The two unpowered tracks make you wonder how the colleagues managed all these strange sounds with just their lips and lungs." – Karsten Zimalla, WEST TIME
Read the full review: www.westzeit.de/rezensionen/?id=22767

"There are clicks and noises like those from game consoles from the 80s, the cracking of a sheet of thunder, industrial sounds and the careful playing at different volumes, all of this just in the first piece Döner." – TAZ
Read the full review: taz.de/Neue-Musik-aus-Berlin/!5838254/

Read Esoteros's review: esoteros.net/2022/03/06/axel-dorner-mazen-kerbaj-doner-kebab-review/

Read Nitestylez's review: www.nitestylez.de/2022/03/axel-dorner-mazen-kerbaj-doner-kebap-al.html

Read Free Jazz Blog's review: www.freejazzblog.org/2022/03/the-sonic-adventures-of-trumpeter-mazen.html

credits

released March 4, 2022

Axel Dörner (left channel):
trumpet, electronics on track 3

Mazen Kerbaj (right channel):
trumpet, electronics on track 3

All music by Axel Dörner and Mazen Kerbaj

Recorded by Axel Dörner at Studio Boerne, Berlin on February 28, 2017
Mixed by Axel Dörner and Mazen Kerbaj

Artwork & design by Mazen Kerbaj

Produced by Al Maslakh

MSLKH 024

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Al Maslakh is a UFO created in Beirut in the early 2000's, to publish the un-publishable from Lebanon's experimental music scene and beyond.

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