French-Lebanese Star Trumpeter/Composer Ibrahim Maalouf's New Albums
Paris In Love - A Live Album Recorded at a Sold-Out Concert at 17,000-Capacity Accor Arena In Paris - Out TODAY
Trumpets of Michel-Ange - Newly Recorded Album Of All Original Material Celebrating the Music of his Lebanese Roots and Ancestry - Out September 20
July 26, 2024 - - Trumpeter/composer Ibrahim Maalouf - the French-Lebanese global sensation and prolific artist - has announced the release of two new albums, and his new live album, Paris In Love - is out today. It was recorded at his sold-out concert last November at the Accor Arena, the biggest in France. The three-hour concert for 17,000 fans was a celebration of his greatest hits and GRAMMY-nominated album Capacity To Love, and featured a host of special guests. On September 20 he will release a new studio album, of all original music called Trumpets of Michel-Ange, a celebration of his ancestry and Lebanese roots.
Paris In Love - Out Today: https://idol-io.ffm.to/parisinlove
On this unforgettable November night in 2023, Ibrahim Maalouf delivered a mesmerizing 3-hour performance for 17,000 fans, featuring live renditions of his greatest hits, including several from his ‘22 Grammy-nominated album Capacity to Love. The live concert album features an extraordinary lineup of guest artists, including Austin Brown (Michael Jackson's nephew), Sheléa, D Smoke, Matthieu Chedid, Benjamin Epps, Sly Johnson, Dear Silas, Flavia Coelho and French hip hop legends IAM and Oxmo Puccino. In a heartwarming moment, Maalouf is joined on stage by his daughter Lily to perform "Our Flag," his collaboration with Sharon Stone. The show also includes a surprise appearance by Charlie Chaplin on "Speechless,” which features Chaplin’s famous speech from his film The Dictator. This was Maalouf’s third time selling out the area, the biggest in France.
Maalouf has also released a single from the album - “The Pope,” featuring D Smoke. Listen / watch here: https://idol-io.ffm.to/thepope + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh72HvafqeA
This live album is a testament to Ibrahim Maalouf's artistic vision and his ability to bring together different musical genres and cultures into a harmonious and exhilarating experience. Paris In Love offers listeners a chance to relive the magic of that night and immerse themselves in the vibrant and eclectic soundscape that Maalouf is celebrated for. See below for album artwork and the full track list.
Trumpets Of Michel-Ange - Out September 20:
Maalouf’s 18th album of all-original music was recorded in a series of raw, freewheeling sessions captured live without any edits or overdubs. Trumpets of Michel Ange is more than just an album; it’s also the name of his wide-ranging new initiative aimed at making the quarter tone trumpet his father invented accessible to players around the world through a line of instruments, lessons, and recordings. His father designed this trumpet for Maalouf to play the quarter tones that are prevalent in the music of the middle east, and is what has given Maalouf such a distinct sound and an appetite for smashing together the sounds of so many cultures. Special guests on the album include Trombone Shorty, Endea Owens, Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté, Matthieu Chedid and Golshifteh Farahani. Maalouf also just spoke to NPR’s 1A about his career and the new album, listen here.
Take a listen to Trumpets of Michel Ange and it’s clear that Maalouf’s excitement and curiosity are as vibrant as ever. Built around a mesmerizing sonic storyline, the album captures the journey of two young lovers who come together to create a family, following them from the celebration of their marriage to the birth of their children and the bittersweet farewell that comes with sending their adult kids off into the world.
“Fly With Me” serves as a perfect introduction to what has made Maalouf so widely celebrated: touches of jazz and his rich trumpet tone woven into the sounds and rhythms of his Middle Eastern heritage. The track opens with a hushed, dancing melody from Maalouf’s trumpet over plucked guitar; a horn section springs forth for the chorus and builds to an explosive conclusion. He has also shared “Love Anthem,” watch the video here.
“On a symbolic level, this album is a celebration of love and family and the things that parents pass on to their children,” Maalouf explains. “On a more literal level, it’s a chance for me to turn my father’s dream of sharing his quarter tone trumpet with the world into a reality.”
See below for artwork and track list. The album cover features a photo from 1925, of Ibrahim’s grandfather’s fanfare, taken in the village of Kafarakab, in the Lebanese mountains, where Maalouf was born. Pre-order here: https://idol-io.ffm.to/trumpetsofmichelange
About Ibrahim Maalouf:
Born in war-torn Lebanon and raised in France, he attended the Conservatoire de Paris and earned a reputation as one of the modern era’s most promising young classical trumpeters with wins at a string of prestigious international competitions. Unsatisfied with the strictures of classical music, Maalouf began using his quarter tone trumpet to craft an innovative, cross-cultural sound, one that would eventually establish him as a household name in France, where he’s been dubbed a Knight of the National Order of Merit and a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Praised as a “virtuoso” by The New York Times, Maalouf has to date released sixteen critically acclaimed albums and performed in more than 40 countries; sold out arenas from Paris to Istanbul; been invited into the inner circle of legendary producer/composer Quincy Jones; raised millions for charitable causes; and collaborated with everyone from Wynton Marsalis and Jon Batiste to Josh Groban and Sting to A$AP Rocky and Angelique Kidjo. In the last few years alone, Maalouf, has earned back-to-back GRAMMY nominations, composed the score for legendary French director Claude Lelouche’s latest film, served on juries at Cannes and the Deauville American Film Festival, performed at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Stevie Wonder, John Legend, and Jacob Collier, and played for an audience of six million in front of the Eiffel Tower on Bastille Day.
Paris In Love tracklist:
1. Introduction
2. Nomade Slang
3. Right Time
4. Una Rosa Blanca (Frank Woeste)
5. Todo Colores
6. True Sorry
7. Money Feat. Erick The Architect
8. El Mundo Feat. Flavia Coelho
9. Humble Feat. Auson Brown
10. Our Flag Feat. Lily Maalouf
11. Feeling Good Feat. Dear Silas
12. French Rap Jam Feat. Iam, Oxmo Puccino, Benjamin Epps, Sly Johnson
13. Ou Va La Vie Feat. Iam
14. Capacity To Love
15. The Pope Feat. D Smoke
16. Tout S’illumine Feat. -M-, Sheléa Frazier
17. Man In The Mirror Feat. Sheléa Frazier
18. Speechless Feat. Charlie Chaplin
19. Red And Black Light
Trumpets of Michel-Ange Tracklist:
- The Proposal
- Love Anthem
- Fly With Me - Feat. Endea Owens
- Zajal
- Stranger
- The Smile of Rita
- Au Revoir - Feat. Golshifteh Farahani
- Capitals - featuring Trombone Shorty
- Timeless - featuring -M-, Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté, Nassim Maalouf, Nael Maalouf
