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Adama

By Avishai Cohen

Label: Stretch Records
Released: 1998

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Article: Album Review

Handling the acoustic bass like a flamenco guitar, then applying the blues, newcomer Avishai Cohen has produced a session in the modern mainstream with considerable intensity. The “fire" comes from his writing; these are all the bassist's compositions except for the standard “Besame Mucho." In putting together his arrangements, Cohen mixes meters in various combinations, allowing ...

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Article: Album Review

Avishai Cohen: Adama

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 1998

It’s true, one can’t always appraise a book by its cover. Looking at bassist Avishai Cohen’s grim visage on the jacket of Adama, I was expecting to hear music of a similar temperament within. And while there are a few brooding passages, most of Cohen’s music — he wrote 11 of the disc’s dozen selections — ...