Haber, Charbel

Experimental | Lebanon

Lebanese-born Charbel Haber is a self-taught guitar player and composer. He is one of the most active and iconic figures in today’s Lebanese alternative music scene, and feels perfectly at ease operating in a wide range of musical settings. In 1998, he co-founded Lebanese post-punk group Scrambled Eggs, with whom he has recorded three full-length albums of scorching noise-rock, to great critical acclaim. Haber is also a full-fledged member of Beirut’s growing Improv community, and joined the MILL (the association for Free Improvised Music in Lebanon) in 2002. His involvement with MILL has seen him performing with the likes of the Moukhtabar big ensemble, the Grendizer Trio free improv collective, as well as free improv trio BAO. Haber launched his own experimental label, Those Kids Must Choke, in 2004. He has collaborated with musicians as diverse as Michael Zerang, Gene Coleman, Jean Pallandre, Mats Gustafsson, Annette Krebs, Mazen Kerbaj, Stephane Rives and David Stackenas…