CHARIF MEGARBANE
With his DIY musical ethos, Charif Megarbane has created an inimitable style of instrumental music, a melting pot of global sounds that glides effortlessly between 1960s Italian library music, psychedelic sounds from the Middle East, Afro-beat, and hip-hop breaks. Megarbane refers to this as "Lebrary" music: a vision of Lebanon and the Mediterranean expressed through the kaleidoscopic approach of library music.
About
Megarbane's innovative instrumentals draw on his diverse musical influences, from the fuzz-drenched guitar riffs of blaxploitation films and the percussive rhythms of West African funk to Lebanese belly-dancing psych and 1960s European film scores—all reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. In just over a decade, Megarbane has released over 100 albums under various names on his own Histology imprint, offering an experimental musical diary of his late-night improvisation sessions recorded in Beirut, Nairobi, Paris, London, and Lisbon—the various cities that call him home. Megarbane pursues a novel, playful, consciousness-expanding approach to composition, characterized by sophisticated yet spontaneous instrumentation and unfiltered improvisation - a conscious resistance to the modern commercialization of music and a welcome counterweight to the polished, digital overproduction that defines today's industry.
