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Torgeir Vassvik: Saivu
by Eyal Hareuveni
Sáivu is the first release by Norwegian Sami musician Torgeir Vassvik, who combines elements from the ancient, shamanistic joik singing of the Samis of northern Scandinavia with Siberian throat-singing and modern soundsacapes. Vassvik has also composed music for theater, including a production of Henrik Ibsen's On the Heights, and films. Like another Norwegian Sami musician, Mari ...
Eldbjorg Raknes: Vocal Mastery
by Eyal Hareuveni
Norwegian singer and music educator Eldbjørg Raknes specialises in setting poetry by other writers to her own music. She began her career collaborating with keyboard player Christian Wallumrød and trumpeter Arve Henriksen, and later sang with vocal groups featuring other notable Norwegian vocalists like Sidsel Endresen, Solveig Slettahjell and Kristin Asbjørnsen. Raknes has been releasing her ...
Marty Ehrlich Trio in Tel Aviv
by Eyal Hareuveni
Marty Ehrlich Trio New Opera House Tel Aviv, Israel Friday, January, 19, 2007 The first performance in Israel of New York-based composer and reed player Marty Ehrlich offered a concise overview of the career of the gifted player. Ehrlich presented his new trio--Shanir Ezra Blumenkrantz on bass and oud ...
Evan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton: Zafiro
by Eyal Hareuveni
My level of expectation for a new release by the trio of Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Paul Lytton is always high. These British gentlemen are masters of free improvisation and have collaborated together for almost forty years in many groups, like Barry Guy's London Jazz Composers' Orchestra and the more recent New Orchestra and Evan ...
Alon Nechushtan: The Growl
by Eyal Hareuveni
There are many reasons to be suspicious about the sudden--if not superficial--revival of Eastern European Jewish folk music, ie. klezmer, in the States, especially when examining the catalogue of the Radical Jewish Culture series of John Zorn's Tzadik imprint. Many young outfits which emerge from New York's Downtown scene or innovative music academies, stating that they ...
Sidsel Endresen: One
by Eyal Hareuveni
One is the most abstract yet original release by Norwegian vocalist Sidsel Endresen. Known for her ECM releases (So I Write, 1990, and Exile, 1994) and her collaborations with fellow countrymen (keyboard player Bugge Wesseltoft, saxophonist Trygve Seim and percusionist Terje Isungset), Endresen is a music educator who has influenced many Norwegian vocalists in her country. ...
The Seventh International Oud Festival of Jerusalem
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Seventh international Oud Festival Jerusalem, Israel November 2-16, 2006 Just when the Middle East seems about to slide into one of its reptilian-macho phases, burdened with too many bloody and violent conflicts, the independent Oud Festival of Jerusalem draws an almost utopian vision for this piece of land. The Middle ...
Huntsville: For the Middle Class
by Eyal Hareuveni
The Norwegian trio Huntsville is comprised of three of the most challenging and adventurous musicians in a country where the musical climate is usually quite daring. Guitarist and banjo player Ivar Grydeland, percussionist Ingar Zach and bassist Tonny Kluften, all doubling on “various instruments," are the core members of the free-improv ensemble No Spaghetti Edition, founders ...
Kristin Asbjornsen: Wayfaring Stranger - A Spirtual Songbook
by Eyal Hareuveni
Kristin Asbjørnsen Wayfaring Stranger - A Spiritual Songbook Universal Music Norway 2006 Norwegian vocalist Kristin Asbjørnsen is gifted with a voice that sounds quite southern: deep and lustrous, with some hoarseness, lots of passion and a wide range. Her spiritual songbook Wayfaring Stranger demonstrates these qualities beautifully, as ...
Carlos Bica: Getting Intimate With The Bull Fiddle
by Eyal Hareuveni
Portuguese bassist Carlos Bica is perhaps best known for his lyrical and singing tone, and his delicate and gentle touch, and these qualities are well to the fore on two recent discs--one with his trio, the other solo. The albums also confirm Bica to be a composer of note. He has a special gift for haunting ...
