JADAL (Oud Duo)
"Jadalis a landmark work in classical Arabic music" --All Things Considered, National Public Radio (NPR), December 17, 1996...Jadalillustrates Marcel Khalife's sophisticated application of Western-styled instrumental composition techniques to music with elements deeply rooted in Arabic vocal sources. Khalife's fertile compositional imagination, which unleashed a striking array of colorful timbres and propulsive rhythms, needed no enlargement to establish its creative authenticity. ... Working with an almost symbiotic linkage, the two artists soared - individually and in tandem - through performances resembling the swirling, interlaced, endlessly fascinating richness of Arabic calligraphy". --Don Heckman,Los Angeles Times,Nov. 13, 1995