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Yair Yona: World Behind Curtains
by Eyal Hareuveni
Like his debut, Remember (Anova, 2010), this sophomore release from Yair Yona still features the Israeli as a guitarist paying his debts to the American Primitive and British finger-picking traditions. But the ambitious World Behind Curtains focuses, first and foremost, on Yona the composer. His compositions for an acoustic chamber ensemble move the finger-picking schools into new timeless avenues, spicing the folksy melodies with motives from jazz, Middle-Eastern scales and post-rock. Yona's eight short compositions tell an ...
read moreAlbert Beger Electroacoustic Band: Peacemaker
by Eyal Hareuveni
Peacemaker, from Albert Beger, marks a new beginning for the innovative Israeli saxophonist. Beger introduces a new quintet that adds, for the first time, live electronics to his fiery-spirited palette of sounds, and a new approach to composition and playing that stresses thematic structure. He is also recording for a new local label that is identified with alternative music. Like on his previous Big Mother (Jazzear, 2008), which dealt with the damage that humans are inflicting upon ...
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