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Afro-Semitic Experience
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Co-founded by African-American jazz pianist Warren Byrd, and Jewish-American jazz bassist David Chevan in 1998, The Afro-Semitic Experience is a band that combines an eclectic array of styles, sophisticated musicianship, good songwriting, deep grooves, and years of friendship with a simple message: Unity in the Community. Their music has been heard around the United States—the group has performed at festivals, in churches, synagogues, colleges, and wherever people come together to share their love and respect for community. Their performances are celebrations of community and culture that invariably get audiences up and dancing.
With their unique instrumentation, solid grooves, and their ability to get an audience on its feet, The Afro-Semitic Experience has reimagined the jazz concert. This is a band beyond category—performing an intricate tapestry of spiritual, world-beat, funk, jazz, cantorial, gospel, salsa, swing
Afro-Semitic Experience: Plea for Peace
by Joel Roberts
As a Jewish guy married to an African woman and with a new baby boy we like to refer to as “our little Jewfrican, the music of the Afro-Semitic Experience resonates in my household. When we first saw them perform a few years ago at Tonic, we said, “The Afro-Semitic Experience... hey, that's us.
Plea for Peace
Label: Reckless DC Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Sente/He's An On Time God; Forgive Us; I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel To Be Free; Almighty God; Introduction to a Song for When the Temple is Rebuilt; A Song for When the Temple is Rebuilt; Thy Will Be Done; Descarga Ocho Kandelikas; (I'm On My Way to) Canaan Land; Plea for Peace; May It Be Your Will (R'tzeh Bim'nuchaseynu); Reb Dovidl's Nigun.
