Ibrahim Maalouf

New album from Ibrahim Maalouf. Guest appearances include De la Soul and Gergory Porter. "I'm a nomad," says international trumpet superstar Ibrahim Maalouf. "I've never believed in borders or boundaries because at the end of the day, the most exciting thing to me is the way our differences can come together to create new art, new stories, new generations. When we collaborate, we can change the world." That notion lies at the heart of Maalouf's extraordinary new album, Capacity To Love, which finds the Lebanese-born, French-raised instrumental mastermind teaming up with a host of hip-hop and R&B artists (including Flatbush Zombies' Erick The Architect, De La Soul, and D Smoke) for his most bold and innovative collection yet.

"For the anniversary of the 30th anniversary of Dalida's death, her historic label Barclay wished to entrust Ibrahim Maalouf with an original creation around her repertoire. Surrounded by his big band and prestigious guests (Alain Souchon, Ben L'Oncle Soul, Melody Gardot, Monica Bellucci, -M-, Izia, Mika, Thomas Dutronc, Rokia Traore, Arno and Golshifteh Farahani), the trumpet player, composer and French-Lebanese arranger went to get the essence of the titles of Dalida that he carefully selected, to rearrange them in his own way, with humility. The jazz approach of Ibrahim Maalouf sublimates the work of Dalida."

Lebanese origin French trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf is on Babylon stage again with his extraordinary style on February 11, 2014. Instead of playing traditional three valve trumpet he is playing four valve trumpet which was invented by his father Nassim Maalouf in 60’s. He is also writer Amin Maalouf’s nephew. Ibrahim Maalouf released his first album “Diasportas“ in 2007 from his own company Mis’ter Production. In 2012 with his album Wind, Ibrahim Maalouf made successful achievment in France and Belgium. He collabrated with so many important musician like Sting, Vanessa Paradif, Vincenct Delerm. Now Ibrahim Maalouf is coming with his new album Illusions while bringing together all differences under an energetic approach.

Breath, Wind. The image flies away, it disappears from our memory. It was that evening when Ibrahim Maalouf came to the Cinémathèque française to play his music accompanying the film of René Clair, the prey of the wind. A silent film made in 1927. Holding her breath, the room listened to Ibrahim Maalouf and put himself in the rhythm of the film to accompany the breath of images. Bet won! Jazz + silent film, what a pretty alliance, what a sweet way to bring back to us the silent mystery of cinema from another era.
The film of René Clair can be seen without accompanying music. The music of Ibrahim Maalouf can be listened to alone, without images. But the meeting of the two creates an incredible ensemble, a kind of telescoping unreleased, a live spectacle very moving because the music in a sense interprets the film…