Nabil Khemir, Composer, guitarist, lute-player and singer.
"More than a poet, the musician is a heavy-hearted loner. He populates the desert with his own feeling. A secret spring, in a rock, in the middle of the
extended barrenness, and he wanted, while trying to pierce the sandstone, to make gush the flooding water over the whole area of sands so as to quench
this everlasting thirst, by salving his impetus."
That was how, one day, the writer André Saurès described the mood of the genuine musician, the one who "includes" passion, improvisation and invention.
In reality, here were the secret tears of this guitarist, lute-player, Nabil Khemir, who has invested himself with an ardent passion, towards music, until
inventing an exclusive musical instrument: the blending of guitar and lute on a single medium, called Rayjam : in other words "radiance of harmony".
On the 21st of July, Nabil Khemir will be giving a concert at the International Festival of Carthage! During the concert Nabil Khemir will present his new compositions and singles extracted from his new album : “Layali Dar El Jenna”.
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Live recording of “When The Evening Falls” taken from the album “Parfum d’Orient et d’Occident” . This recording was made at the Tabarka Jazz Festival in 2005.
Performing artists: Monica Akihary (vocals), Mark Haanstra (bass), Niels Brouwer (guitar), Nabil Khemir (Rayjam) Componist Niels Brouwer
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Live recording of Hanin taken from the album “Parfum d’Orient et d’Occident” . This recording was made at the Tabarka Jazz Festival in 2005.
Performing artists: Monica Akihary (vocals), Mark Haanstra (bass), Niels Brouwer (guitar), Nabil Khemir (Rayjam)
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Live recording of When The Evening Falls taken from the album “Parfum d’Orient et d’Occident” . This recording was made at the Tabarka Jazz Festival in 2005.
Performing artists: Monica Akihary (vocals), Mark Haanstra (bass), Niels Brouwer (guitar), Nabil Khemir (Rayjam) Componist Niels Brouwer
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Live recording of Gitane taken from the album “Parfum d’Orient et d’Occident” . This recording was made at the Tabarka Jazz Festival in 2005.
Performing artists: Monica Akihary (vocals), Mark Haanstra (bass), Niels Brouwer (guitar), Nabil Khemir (Rayjam)
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Live recording of Sahryia taken from the album “Parfum d’Orient et d’Occident” . This recording was made at the Tabarka Jazz Festival in 2005.
Performing artists: Monica Akihary (vocals), Mark Haanstra (bass), Niels Brouwer (guitar), Nabil Khemir (Rayjam)
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Today our MP3 Libraries have been uploaded so you can start enjoying the music! All the files will play through our integrated player and are categorized.
In the category: Jazz you will find all the tradional good Jazz songs on guitar and lute which made Nabil a well known Mahgreb Jazz artist. The category: World Pop contains some of the later work for a broader audience.
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“When I look around me in this world, I can see a lot of pain and sadness, too much egoism and lonelyness, arrogance and spite. There are uncountable high mountains of money and no money at all, there is unlimited wealth and borderless poverty. We build up castles and create for ourselves magnificent impenetrable shields, but no soul inside of it.
Sidi Mansour is a hugely successful pan-Arab song. The music is a popular tune from Tunisian traditional folklore and the lyrics were written by Sameh al Ajami. In this performance at the Tunesian TV Channel 21 Nabil gives his own musical improvisation of this well known song.
‘Just after the Jasmin revolution I felt the very strong feeling to write another song. Nhebbek : is the next single after Obbed Elmel which was inspired by the revolution.’In Nhebbek ya bledi ( I love you, my country) Nabil Khemir expresses his feeling about his beautiful Tunisia.
11/06/2011 Nijmegen