Christine Sehnaoui, Dragos Tara, d'incise - At

Christine Sehnaoui: alto saxophone
Dragos Tara: doublebass, radio
d'incise: laptop, objects, cymbals

2010 AT .EP (conv)

Christine Sehnaoui & Sven-Åke Johansson - La Vase / Slikke

Christine Sehnaoui: alto saxophone
Sven-Åke Johansson: percussion, crackle box

2010 LA VASE/SLIKKE (SÅJ Records) rapidshare/mediafire
Review by Elliott Sharp

Christine Sehnaoui & Michel Waisvisz - Shortwave

Christine Sehnaoui: alto saxophone
Michel Waisvisz: the hands

The Lebanese label Al Maslakh produced this unusual recording by Dutch electronics master Michel Waisvisz and Lebanese saxophonist (by way of Paris) Christine Sehnaoui. That’s right a label from Beirut, Al Maslakh (meaning The Slaughterhouse), has released some impressive projects. This is a collaboration recorded in 2007. Unfortunately Waisvisz, just shy of his 60th birthday, has since passed away. He plays his own creation, “the hands,” an electronic interface that he places over his hands, allowing him to invoke movement into music making. His wow and flutter can build to thunderous noise or linger at sizzling points. Waisvisz, who has collaborated with the likes of Shelley Hirsch, DJ Spooky, Richard Teitelbaum, and Steve Lacy, creates sounds not unlike those of early Raymond Scott electronic experimentation, rumbling sometimes-cartoonish noises. His human/electric interface via his hands dares you to guess where the man stops and the electronics begin. Paired with Sehnaoui, the sounds gel. The saxophonist is adept at the microtonal aspects of the saxophone. She produces biting, slicing notes or breathy echoey sounds from the bell of her horn. Sometimes her playing reminds you of that of Bhob Rainey or Michel Doneda. There is a equanimity and patience to her playing that is born out of self control.
Mark Corroto | All About Jazz

2008 SHORTWAVE (rapidshare/mediafire)

Christine Sehnaoui - Solo

Christine Sehnaoui: alto saxophone

With a very distinguished and prolific language her music really took me by surprise the first time I heard it. waves of polytonal freedom and poetic beauty. lines of noise clusters and complex patterns.she is sculpting her sounds around a microtonal hub, transforming slow melodies into free improvised structures and drama that is just giving me such inspiration
and joy!
I haven’t heard such new sounds on that horn in a veeeery long time. to hear an instrumentalist nowadays finding new sounds on an instrument on this level can only be compared to when Axel Dörner entered the scene quite some years ago with a totally new concept on how to produce sounds and noises from an acoustic instrument! Axel and Christine are perhaps the two most interesting musicians making electronic music on acoustic instrument up-to-date!
To hear Christine improvise on her alto sax is in my universe to put together the great universes of Morton Feldman, Lee Konitz, Günter Christmann, Magnus Granberg and Loren Connors!
the capability of binding together the micro details in such a convincing and beautiful way is reserved for very few musicians and artists. to make us see the whole picture/ beauty thru the smallest details. that ROCKS! It F****N RULES!!!

Mats Gustafsson Feb 23rd 2007

2007 SOLO (rapidshare/mediafire)

Christine Sehnaoui & Magda Mayas - Teeming

Christine Sehnaoui: alto saxophone
Magda Mayas: piano

"Magda Mayas and Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui both play acoustic music that is diametral, a space they conquered by changing the traditional ways of their instruments: modern alchemy. Together they express a strong physical experience. Mayas is a master of sparse fragments of motion and Sehnaoui works in a flux of changing sounds. The multiple layers of their performance create a shivering moment of existence, which reminds me of the words of the Danish artist Malene Bach: "Art finds its own relevance in forming the alternative space, where utopias, dreams, intentions and everything, that we cannot agree exists, can articulate itself and take place." (Thomas Millroth)

2010 TEEMING

Christine Sehnaoui - On Air (03-10-2007)

Christine Sehnaoui: alto saxophone

01 Västerås'07III10 (25'09'')

2007 BOOTLEG

Christine Sehnaoui Abdelnour & Andy Moor @ Circol Malda, Barcelona (14-03-2009)

Christine Sehnaoui Abdelnour: alto saxophone
Andy Moor: electric guitar

2010 LIVE AT CIRCOL MALDA (Bootleg)
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Mazen Kerbaj, Christine Sehnaoui, Sharif Sehnaoui, Ingar Zach - Rouba3i5

Mazen Kerbaj: trumpet
Christine Sehnaoui: alto saxophone
Sharif Sehnaoui: electric guitar
Ingar Zach: percussion

Free improvising from Beirut that is definitely worth tracking down, although just 500 copies have been pressed. "Rouba3i", it seems, derives from the Arabic word for quartet. Trumpeter Mazen Kerbaj, alto saxophonist Christine Sehnaoui and guitarist Sharif Sehnaoui are a trio of Lebanese musicians who invite a series of percussionists to occupy the fourth corner of their group. for this incarnation – the fifth, hence Rouba3i5 - they are joined by Norwegian percussionist Ingar Zach, who suits the frictional buzz and burr of their style exceptionally well. Each member of the trio has pared away all obvious instrumental attributes, resulting in sound sources effectively geared to realise a shared musical vision of grainy agitated textures overlaid, overlapped and intersecting. Abstracted sounds seep and trickle, punctuated with pops and staccato chatter, across two pieces that are remarkably consistent in character and quality.
Julian Cowley | The Wire

2004 ROUBA3I5

Pascal Battus & Christine Sehnaoui Abdelnour - Ichnites

Christine Sehnaoui Abdelnour: alto saxophone
Pascal Battus: rotating surfaces

2010 ICHNITES