Live Music

Public Presentation – Onohub

Wednesday, Dec 21, 2016
8:30pm -> 10:00pm
Onomatopoeia

Join onohub in this special night where three singers will be delighting you with great music.

– Marc Codsi
– Tony Elieh
– Sharif Sehnaoui

About Marc
Marc Codsi is a main actor in the development of the Lebanese musical scene.
He started as a guitar player for 6 years and 5 albums with post rock band Scrambled eggs.
He participated to the development of the Lebanese experimental scene and its festival Irtijal. He also created Electronic Duo Lumi which released the album Two tears in Water (virgin records) in 2008.
In 2010, Faded Postcards his first recorded solo work was released.
Many collaborations followed mainly with Zeid Hamdan, Yasmine Hamdan and with different cinematographers. In 2013 the second solo Album Works and Coincidences is being released.

About Tony
Tony Elieh: Born in 1978 Beirut Lebanon, was member and co founder of Scrambled Eggs, one of Beirut’s most prolific and talented rock bands of the early 2000’s, and remained with the group from its beginnings until its precocious demise in 2015. Elieh is nowadays a member of improvising experimental ensembles Karkhana and Johnny Kafta’s Anti-Vegetarian Orchestra.
Worked on lots of projects and did many soundtracks for Lebanese movie directors such as A Perfect Day and Je Veux Voire by Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas, and Crayon of Askalan by Laila Hotait and with Nadim Tabet and Daniele Arbid, and also a dance performance with Pierre Geagea (Mother Tongue) and with dutch artist Ilse Fresh.

About Sharif
Sharif Sehnaoui is a free improvising guitarist. He plays both electric & acoustic guitars, with (or without) extended and prepared techniques, focusing on expanding the intrinsic possibilities of these instruments without the use of effects or electronics. He now resides in Beirut, his hometown, after more than a decade in Paris, where he started his career as an improviser in 1998, playing at Instants Chavirés as a member of several orchestras.
In Lebanon, he actively contributed to the emergence of an unprecedented experimental music scene. Along with Mazen Kerbaj he created “Irtijal” (www.irtijal.org) in 2000, a yearly international festival that is the oldest improvised and new music festival in the Arab world. “Irtijal” celebrated its XVth anniversary in 2015.
His main groups and projects include the “A” Trio (with Kerbaj & Raed Yassin), “Wormholes” an audio-visual performance with Kerbaj drawing live on a glass table, and Karkhana (www.karkhana-music.com), a Middle-Eastern based super-group combining musicians from Beirut, Cairo & Istanbul.

Cost
10,000 LL

For more information or to make a reservation
01.398.986