Q&A with trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf

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Q&A with trumpeter #IbrahimMaalouf

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Ibrahim Maalouf ....

A renowned French-Lebanese trumpeter was apprehended as he travelled from France to play a gig in London this week after being told that his name had flagged an Interpol alert.

Ibrahim Maalouf was travelling through Paris’s central Gare du Nord station on Tuesday towards the UK to play in the London Jazz Festival.

Maalouf, whose blend of jazz trumpet and rock rhythms has won him international accolades and awards, told French music magazine Clique on Wednesday that he had been “menaced” by police.

“It came up on their computer that my passport was flagged up as “Interpol positive”. They took me aside and interrogated me,” Maalouf said.

Following his release, after missing two trains and having to cancel a day of promotional activities in London, Maalouf said he was pulled off a train by customs officers, who accused him of “defamation” for speaking to the press about the incident.

“A minute before the train left, they let me get on – I arrived [in London] just before the concert [started].”

Maalouf, who was born in Beirut but fled the civil war with his family as a child, said the state of emergency declared in France in the wake of last Friday’s bloody attacks in Paris was behind his arrest.

“I think that, since the state of emergency was put into place, there are processes that go beyond the usual monitoring. I am just collateral damage of this.”

France’s parliament on Thursday voted to extend a state of emergency imposed countrywide a few hours after the attacks began for a further three months.

The country’s state of emergency was first formulated in 1955 as part of a response to the Algerian War of Independence, and allows security services to impose curfews, curtail freedom of assembly and censor the media.

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Trumpet star Maalouf fulfils silver screen 'dream'

AFP/AFP - Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf performs on stage of the Nice's Jazz Festival in southeastern France, on July 9, 2014

By Maureen Cofflard | AFP
nov 30, 2014
Lebanese-French trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf is reaching beyond his classical and jazz roots to a more mainstream audience seduced by his unique musical style blending Arabic and Western influences.

The 34-year-old, who has worked with Sting in the past, also told AFP on a tour stop in London that he is finally fulfilling his "dream" of composing film scores -- and has three more in the pipeline.

On the sidelines of a concert, Maalouf spoke of the "freedom offered by art" after the release of "Au Pays d'Alice" ("In the Land of Alice"), his musical take on the British classic fantasy novel "Alice in Wonderland".

The record mixes Franco-Malian hip-hop artist Oxmo Puccino with a classical orchestra and a children's choir -- the kind of world music work that is winning Maalouf a growing number of fans.

"I don't just do Oriental music: I do my music. There's a bit of jazz, a bit of the Orient, a bit of rock, a bit of hip-hop: everything I love and listen to can be found in my music," he said.

"I see my albums as the soundtrack of daily life."

Maalouf, who has won a string of world classical music competitions, is increasingly at ease in London and New York and his British gig was sold out.
The musician said he was particularly pleased about composing the scores for three films this year: the biopic "Yves Saint Laurent" about the life of the famous fashion designer, as well as an Iranian art-house movie and a French teen comedy.


"This was a logical move. I worked for four years on my first album and for me it was a movie soundtrack that I wanted to present to directors," Maalouf said.

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