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 and active member of MILL, the cultural music association behind Irtijal, an improvisation music festival held in Beirut since 2001, and co-founder of Al Maslakh, the first label for experimental music in the region operating since 2005.
Besides his musical works, he is an amazing cartoon artist and graphic. He was born in Beirut, presently based in Berlin.

14 years after his first (and only) solo album “Brt Vrt Zrt Krt” (Al Maslakh, 2005) Mazen returns with a series of subtle compositions of his own with not one but two(!) solo albums full of the prepared trumpet tweakery that he is known for.

On Vol. 2.1 we hear an amazing array of trumpet treatments without any processing of additonal electronics. Vol.2.2 goes deep into the nether regions of waltzing drones and bell tweaks so deep that would make most cetaceans loose their concentration. The notion of being transported to a luring mutant underwater alien community is still present on these long(er) trips with the added meditative pieces being occasionally pierced by noise creepers, nothing is what you want or expect and that’s the way it should be.

If Vol. 2.1 is the classic follow up LP, this one is the beast from the deep, it comes surging and screeching from a deep oceanic sink hole, only to hypnotize you with perverted dance moves before diving back into the sinking, wettest and darkest cave in the world.

Recorded in Berlin in 2016, mastered by Rashad Becker.
Artwork and design by Mazen Kerbaj.