Rabih Abou-Khalil - Morton's Foot (2003)

In December 2002 Lebanese-born Rabih Abou-Khalil was awarded the Honorary Prize of the German Record Critics, equivalent to a Grammy Award, for Lifetime Achievement. * After a series of highly regarded special projects--the melancholy film soundtrack Yara (1998), the nearly orchestral major work The Cactus Of Knowledge (2000), and his first unaccompanied solo album Il Sospiro (2002)--Morton's Foot finally presents Abou-Khalil's current working band. * Inundated with awards in recent years, composer/oud player/bandleader Abou-Khalil now delivers an impressing studio statement with a number of brand new compositions that are utterly characteristic but at the same time uncompromisingly fresh, fascinatingly complex, and thrillingly virtuosic.