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Matthew Shipp and Guillermo E. Brown: Odd Couple
by Eyal Hareuveni
Matthew Shipp and Guillermo E. Brown Zappa Club Tel Aviv, Israel Oct. 26, 2005 It was supposed to be a meeting between long-time partners. Pianist Matthew Shipp is the curator of Thirsty Ear's Blue Series, the imprint that released drummer and electronics player Guilllermo E. Brown's ...
Yitzhak Yedid: Passions and Prayers: Sextet in Hommage to Jerusalem
by Eyal Hareuveni
Jerusalem-based composer and pianist Yitzhak Yedid is a true advocate of the Third Stream, the almost extinct school of music that claims to synthesize jazz sensibility and modern methods of improvisation with new and contemporary techniques of composition. The Israeli musician explains his adherence to this school in the minute liner notes of Passions and Prayers, ...
Kirsten Br: Stemmenes Skygge (Shadow of Voices)
by Eyal Hareuveni
Thanks to the ECM label, many of us were exposed for the first time to the beautiful vocals of Norwegian folk singer Kirsten Bråten Berg and Swedish folk singer Lena Willemark. Both have always sought new forms to present and interpret their rich musical heritage. Berg collaborated with Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen in rearranging traditional Nordic ...
Wolfgang Puschnig/Jatinder Thakur/Dhafer Youssef: Odem
by Eyal Hareuveni
Austrian reed man Wolfgang Puschnig, Tunisian oud player and vocalist Dhafer Youssef, and Indian tabla master Jatinder Thakur met in Puschnig's home base of Vienna at the beginning of the '90s, but they did not record as a trio until last year. These three tracks with special guests were recorded in 1997 and have just been ...
David Krakauer & Socalled with Klezmer Madness!: Bubbemeises: Lies My Gramma Told Me
by Eyal Hareuveni
Clarinet master David Krakauer is one of the original, free-minded heroes of the new klezmer revival, a great and daring instrumentalist who keeps expanding his musical language. Bubbemeises: Lies My Gramma Told Me, a collaboration between Canadian DJ and sampler man Josh Goldin, aka Socalled, and Krakauer's trusty and impeccable unit, Klezmer Madness!, retains the festive ...
Ktu: 8 Armed Monkey
by Eyal Hareuveni
Finnish accordion player Kimmo Pohjonen's compositions tend to lead him into ecstacy and a wild, orgiastic release. Pohjonen usually starts playing sitting, as calm as if he was tranquilized by shamanic medicine, but soon he surrenders to flushes of musical energy that hit him and push him into a twisted dance that challenges his huge accordion, ...
Atomic: The Bikini Tapes
by Eyal Hareuveni
Atomic The Bikini Tapes Jazzland Recordings 2005 The Norwegian-Swedish quintet Atomic may be considered the Scandinavian equivalent of Chicago's Vandermark 5. Atomic's compositions, like Ken Vandermark's, are loaded with clever references to the history of modern and free jazz, and both groups' players know how ...
Rokia Traor: Bowmbo
by Eyal Hareuveni
Rokia Traoré presents an entirely different role model for an African female singer. She reflects on her Malian tradition and sings exclusively in her native language, Bamanan, which she chose because of its particular richness in metaphor and texture. But as she declares on “K”tê Don," from her third release, Bowmboï: “I respect my ancestors/But tradition ...
Billy Bang: Vietnam: Reflections
by Eyal Hareuveni
On the second installment of his Vietnam trilogy, following the highly acclaimed Vietnam: The Aftermath (Justin Time, 2001), violinist Billy Bang continues the healing process. His great achievement is not only personal, having faced the demons of that bloody and futile war as a GI, but also musical as well. Bang succeeds in transforming the harrowing ...
Jean Claude Jones: New Duets
by Eyal Hareuveni
Since forming his own label, Kadima Collective, Israeli and Jerusalem based bass and electronics player Jean Claude Jones, opted for the duo format. His first two solo discs, recorded in the last two years, when he is in his late fifties, were a series of meetings with like-minded Israeli improvising musicians, including a short document of ...
