Bleep

A professional French-Lebanese pianist who pays the rent by playing in an orchestra, Bachar Mar-Khalife unwinds with piano songs shot through with spritely percussion and crisp Arab vocals. If you don’t believe it can work, try ‘Mirror Moon’, where keys tinkle as Bachar revs up bass, or the haunted house dirge of ‘Requiem’ where he pecks at the lower end of the piano like a spooked-out Scott Joplin. If you think InFiné can only do woozy synthscapes, think again.