Jazz Articles about Tafillalt

Tafillalt: Tafillalt

by Eyal Hareuveni
August 14, 2009

This innovative alt-klezmer/alt-Jewish music ensemble represents the growing interest of John Zorn's Tzadik label in the Israeli Jewish music scene. Tafillalt fits into the Radical Jewish Culture series of the label, not only by exploring and interpreting ancient and modern Hebrew prayers--songs in adventurous and compelling new soundscapes--but also because of the group's multicultural improvisational attitude that borrows from neighboring cultures, Muslim and Christian musical traditions, and consciously references them.

The three members of Taffilalt-- vocalist/percussionist Yair Harel, violist/vocalist Nori ...