Mazen Kerbajs »The Corona Diaries«
Mazen Kerbajs »The Corona Diaries – Follow what Mazen Kerbaj is doing instead of what he should have done« ist nicht nur eine Sammlung humorvoller Comics und Notizen, die die derzeitige Endzeit-Stimmung in Berlin porträtieren. Der Blog zur Quarantäne umfasst auch neue Stücke des Musikers und Comiczeichners, sogar sein erstes Liebeslied.
Inzwischen ist bereits ein ganzes Album entstanden, das für 0,00 USD oder mehr auf seiner Bandcamp-Seite erhältlich ist: https://mazenkerbaj.bandcamp.com/album/the-corona-diaries
Eine Aufnahme seines Albums bezieht sich auf die kürzlich abgesagte Show mit Ute Wassermann aus seiner Serie Mazen Kerbaj invites X plus one in der ifa-Galerie Berlin. Er fand jedoch eine alternative Methode mit einer Gastmusikerin trotz Social Distancing zusammenzuarbeiten. Er hörte Ute Wassermanns Album Strange Songs über Kopfhörer, während er gleichzeitig ein Solostück einspielte. Diese Aufnahme ist auch auf vimeo veröffentlicht unter: https://vimeo.com/400085413.
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Hier ist Mazen Kerbajs Video-Bericht: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX7qOpMIxw8
Mazen Kerbaj is a Lebanese comics author, visual artist, and musician born in Beirut in 1975. He also works on selective illustration and design projects and has taught at the American University of Beirut.
Kerbaj is the author of more than 15 books, and his short stories and drawings have been published in anthologies, newspapers, and magazines. His work has been translated into more than ten languages and has been shown in galleries, museums and art fairs around the world.
Mazen Kerbaj is widely considered as one of the initiators and key players of the Lebanese free improvisation and experimental music scene. He is co-founder of »Irtijal«, an annual improvisation music festival (www.irtijal.org), and of Al Maslakh, the first label for experimental music in the region operating since 2005.
As a trumpet player, whether in solo performances or with long-lasting groups like »A« Trio, Kerbaj pushes the boundaries of the instrument and continues to develop a personal sound and an innovative language, following in the footsteps of pioneers like Bill Dixon, Axel Dörner and Franz Hautzinger.
In 2015, Kerbaj was the recipient of a DAAD one-year artist in residency in Berlin. He lives and works in the German capital since.
Since his move to Berlin, Kerbaj has developed several new projects in different fields, such as »Borborygmus« a theater play he co-wrote, directed and performed with Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalanie; »Synesthesia«, a concept for a live graphic score for an improvising ensemble; and »Walls Will Fall«, a composition for 49 trumpets. He also started working on »Antoine«, his most ambitious graphic novel to date.
