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Inner Rhyme is Lebanese violinist and composer Layale Chaker's highly anticipated debut. Featuring Layale's original compositions, the album captures the shape and essence of the epic testimonials on life, death, war and love that are the heart of Arabic poetry. The album is a must-have for lovers of world, jazz and contemporary music.

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• Layale Chaker will be touring US and Europe during Winter/Spring of 2019, including shows in London, Paris, Beirut, Brooklyn NY and Boston.
• Full Service press and publicity campaign by In a Circle Records including viral email programs, physical promo servicing and a radio campaign
• FOR FANS OF: Vijay Iyer, Rabih Abou Khalil, ECM Records, Anouar Brahem, Silk Road Ensemble, Tigran Hamasyan
• This release on In a Circle Records follows highly successful debut by Grammy-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman, and Silk Road Ensemble and Yo-Yo Ma's album of music for Ken Burns' Vietnam War documentary.

Press Quotes

A rising star

     — BC Music Magazine

Dazzling playing - which, despite drawing inspiration from Eastern traditions - stems from a contemporary approach that is rich of countless colors.

     —Maazef Magazine

Layale's music is pervaded by the melancholy and the intensity of Fado... Incredible energy.

     —Osnabrucker Zeitung

Virtuosic and delicate all at once

     —Jazzethetik

A beguiling debut that intertwines the bright and beautiful strands of her musical life so far: Western classical music, jazz, and the rich legacy of Arab music and poetry ... gorgeous

     —NPR Music

A haunting yet quietly rigorous album that integrates the disparate parts of her identity as a composer, performer and improviser who tiptoes along cultural fault lines.

     —New York TImes