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Gilad Hekselman: Hearts Wide Open

Read "Hearts Wide Open" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Gilad Hekselman è un chitarrista israeliano che, seguendo una prassi in voga presso molti suoi conterranei, dopo aver frequentato varie scuole in patria completa gli studi negli Stati Uniti, in questo caso, New York. Dove ha la possibilità di incontrare ed esibirsi con molti protagonisti di quella scena musicale. Proprio da uno di questi incontri nasce l'idea di Hearts Wide Open, la terza uscita da leader di Hekselman, qui accompagnato da una ritmica solida e affiatata e, nella maggior parte ...

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Album Review

Gilad Hekselman: SplitLife

Read "SplitLife" reviewed by Laurel Gross


Not that long out of school, guitarist Gilad Hekselman has already begun to create a body of work possessing a distinctive lyricism and easily embraceable artfulness that seems to reach beyond his years. Born in 1983 and transplanted to the US from Israel, Hekselman's highly effective debut album--aptly named Splitlife--strides dual worlds, Middle East and West, old world and new, but it's his own personality as both assured player and composer that gives this recording its very personable voice.


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