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Farthest South: Neurim

Read "Neurim" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The Israeli improvisational trio Farthest South explored distant musical universes in its previous albums--free jazz with local sax hero Albert Beger on Omens & Talismans (2013) and ambient-space rock on Spheres & Constellations (2013). Only on its third release, Neurim (youth in Hebrew} the trio dares to tackle one of the sore aspects of the Israeli ...

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Farthest South: Spheres & Constellations

Read "Spheres & Constellations" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The Israeli psychedelic trio Farthest South focused on new sonic territories on its sophomore album, Spheres & Constellations, abandoning attempts to flirt with free jazz as they did on their debut Omens & Talismans,(2013), working with Israeli sax hero Albert Beger. On its new incarnation the band sounds completely different, still relying on exploratory, in-the- moment ...

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Farthest South: Omens & Talismans

Read "Omens & Talismans" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Farthest South is a new alternative Israeli band, comprised of a core trio from the alternative Tel Aviv Scene that attempts to challenge its formative musical experience by playing spontaneous, on-the-spot music. The three-- Guitarist Barry Berko has a background in alternative rock and contemporary music; bassist Yair Yona played in psychedelic rock and folk music ...

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World Behind Curtains

Label: Anova Music
Released: 2012
Track listing: Expatriates; It's Not The Heat (It's The Humidity); This One's For You, Glenn; Kottke And The Orchids; Mad About You; Miss Fortune (Kaiser's Eyes); Poetry Nights In Valhalla; Bella.

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Yair Yona: World Behind Curtains

Read "World Behind Curtains" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Like his debut, Remember (Anova, 2010), this sophomore release from Yair Yona still features the Israeli as a guitarist paying his debts to the American Primitive and British finger-picking traditions. But the ambitious World Behind Curtains focuses, first and foremost, on Yona the composer. His compositions for an acoustic chamber ensemble move the finger-picking schools into ...

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Remember

Label: Strange Attractors Audio House
Released: 2011
Track listing: Remember; Are You Smarter Than a 35 Year Old TV Host?; Russian Dance; Pharaoh; Struggled So Hard; Floodgate Opens to Allow a Ship to Come Through (As It Carries the Passenger Fahey On It); Broken Rockin' Chair; Brave Walls; Sympathy For the Jack--Skinny Fists.

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Ehran Elisha launches new Israeli label

Read "Ehran Elisha launches new Israeli  label" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Two releases by New York-based drummer Ehran Elisha are the first ones from a new Israeli creative label, OutNow Recordings, run by three musicians--saxophonist Yoni Kretzmer and guitarists Yair Yona and Ido Bukelman--with a noble mission: “search within yourself for the sound you never stop hearing." These albums present the ever creative Elisha in two different ...

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Earth Day 2011 Special: Jazz Musician Albert Beger Gives Away His Album Big Mother For Free!

Earth Day 2011 Special: Jazz Musician Albert Beger Gives Away His Album Big Mother For Free!

Israeli saxophonist Albert Beger had released his album Big Mother in 2008. The album, is a six piece suit dedicated to the environmental issue, the danger that planet earth is in, the damage the humans causes the great gift of them all—our one global home, our big mother. Albert is also an activist. He helps clean ...

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Yair Yona: Remember

Read "Remember" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Yair Yona is a resourceful Israeli guitarist and producer, whose solo debut salutes legendary and innovative finger-picking guitarists from both sides of the Atlantic such as John Fahey, Leo Kottke and Bert Jansch. But Yona does not shy away from updating these guitarists' influential legacies and sounds, with references to modern indie post-rock groups and guitarists ...


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