Category: Features – Archive

January 12, 2014 / Features - Archive
November 27, 2013 / Features - Archive

Even being tried for blasphemy over a song lyric never shook Marcel Khalifé’s belief in his music. But then this belief had already seen him playing in bombed-out concert halls during the Lebanese Civil War and withstanding his father’s disdain for pursuing a musical career. Khalifé, who sings, composes and…

November 24, 2013 / Features - Archive

  Sometimes it could be an audience crusher: a sound that gained such mass as to have a physical impact, even though you knew it was just an alto saxophone. But then David Ades (pronounced “Addiss”) generated a singularly wide, wild and potent braying. He also summoned surging joy and…