He has produced musical scores for numerous films, documentaries, video art, theatre plays & choreographies. Banabila records with many oriental musicians like Salar Asid (violin), Mehmet Polat (oud), Yaşar Saka (saz), Ali Bahia El Idrissi (lead vocalist), Joshua Samson (percussion), and Anas Maghrebi (lead vocalist from Khebez Dawle). All of them featured here in these tracks at MidEast Tunes. In 2003 he received an Edison Award in the category Jazz National with trumpet player Eric Vloeimans. In 2017 Canadian label Séance Centre releases a vinyl 2LP album 'Trespassing', including a reissue of his first 1983 LP 'Marilli' and a compilation with more recent works. Banabila lives and works currently in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.