Basel Rajoub

Infobox Musical artist


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Name = Basel Rajoub
باسل رجوب
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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Basel Rajoub
Origin = flagicon|SYR Aleppo, Syria
Occupation = Saxophonist
Composer
Arranger
Genre = Jazz, Arabic music, Arabesque music,Saxophone, Middle Eastern music
Years_active = 2005–present
URL = [http://www.LenaChamamyan.net Homepage]

Born in Aleppo - Syria in 1981, Basel Rajoub (Arabic: "باسل رجوب") started his musical career performing on trumpet before joining Aleppo's conservatory where hestudied eastern and European classical music as well as jazz. Basel's music has hints of jazz mixed with eastern rhythms in addition to piano and brass.He recently performed with the Syrian singer Lena Chamamyan and they won the Radio Monte Carlo award in September 2006.Both artists gained a wide poularity in the Arab world especially after they performed Live in a number of cities like Cairo, Amman,Paris, Vienna and of course Damascus.
Rajoub played Saxophone in the British Council sponsored tour for the album "Sprinting Gazelle" by London based Palestinian singerand ethnomusicologist Reem Kelani along with two Syrian musicians:
Amir Qara Jouli (violin) and Simon Mreach (percussion) in addition to three of Kelani's British band:
Patrick Illingworth (drums),Oli Hayhurst (double bass) and Zoe Rahman (piano).The debut represented songs from Palestine and the diaspora in a way that seemed both modern and ancient.

Discography

Basel produced two albums with the vocalist Lena Chamamyan:
#Hal Asmar Ellon (2006).
#Shamat (2007).

References

* [http://www.lenachamamyan.net Lena Chamamyan's home page]
* [http://www.delsyr.ec.europa.eu/en/whatsnew/detail.asp?id=270 Syrian Musicians win EU-funded Radio Music Award]
* [http://www.britishcouncil.org/nr7_reemkelani.pdf A world of UK Music by the British Council issue 7 — 2007]
* [http://www.mawred.org/lena_2007.htm المورد الثقافي]