Khaled Kurbeh Explores Rhythm & Place on ‘Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh’

Berlin-based Syrian musician and composer Khaled Kurbeh returns with 'Likulli Fadāin Eqāéh' (لكلّّ فضاءٍٍ إيقاعه), a contemplative and layered album via Naarm-based Research Records. Translating to 'To Each Space Its Own Rhythm', the project is a sonic document of four years spent mapping spaces through rhythm, texture, and tone.

The album gathers 10 experimental electroacoustic compositions, a marked departure from Kurbeh’s earlier acoustic release Aphorisms. This time, Kurbeh leans into slow-moving synths, field recordings, prepared instruments, and ambient textures. The result feels somewhere between a sound installation and a personal diary. Each track unfolds like a moment on a map, capturing the rhythms, both of daily life and spatial movement.

From sunflower seed shells cracking on 'Nuzha I', to bowed strings that shiver on 'al-Ajrāf', Kurbeh’s palette is intimate and wide-ranging. The gatefold vinyl includes artwork by Ida Lawrence and a booklet of painted landscape variations, repeating the same scene in shifting lights, an echo of the album’s structure and ethos.