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Showing posts with label Gilad Atzmon and The Orient House Ensemble. Show all posts
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Sunday, 22 June 2008

Refuge اللـــجــــوء ♪ Gilad Atzmon and The Orient Ensemble جـــيـــلاد اتـــزمـــن ومــجــمــوعــة بــيــت الــشــرق


Album : Refuge اللـــجــــوء
Artists :
Gilad Atzmon and The Orient Ensemble
جـــيـــلاد اتـــزمـــن ومــجــمــوعــة بــيــت الــشــرق
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* Gilad Atzmon saxophones, clarinet and electronics,
* Frank Harrison keyboards and electronics,
* Yaron Stavi double & electric bass,
* Asaf Sirkis drums.
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Guest : Paul Jayasinha trumpet

Melodies :
{1}. Autumn in Baghdad
{2}. Spring in New Nork
{3}. In the Small Hours
{4}. Burning Bush
{5}. Her Smile
{6}. Her Tears
{7}. My Refuge
{8}. just Another Prayer for Peace
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Speaking about his new album ,"Refuge", Atzmon says: "Peace is nowhere near. Every other day a new conflict comes to life. The world is becoming more and more hostile. Music has become our refuge. Music is not a messenger, it is actually the message. Music is the true Being in Time." A mature and fascinating statement oscillating between oriental-coloured sadness and melancholic jazz balladry, "Refuge" is an album filled with truth, energy, wisdom, peace and beauty. Although freshly speckled with fusion, Latin and electronic sounds, it presents the ensemble's talents at their most soulful and expressive. This is a big one.

Saturday, 22 March 2008

Gilad Atzmon and The Orient House Ensemble -:- جيلاد اتزمن ومجموعة بيت الشرق


Album :
Gilad Atzmon and The Orient House Ensemble
جيلاد اتزمن ومجموعة بيت الشرق

Artists :
Gilad Atzmon (founder/bandleader/clarinet, saxophones),
Asaf Sirkis (drums & bandir),
Frank Harrison (piano, melodica),
Yaron Stavi (bass).

Country : Israel - اسرائيل

Melodies :
{1}. Pardonnez Nous (Trad. Ladino)
{2}. Shir (G Atzmon)
{3}. Miron Dance (Trad. Ladino)
{4}. Nard-ish (M. Davis)
{5}. Rai Print (W. Shorter)
{6}. Miserlou (Trad. Turkish)
{7}. Orient House (G Atzmon)
{8}. Balladi (G Atzmon)
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Posted by FolkmusicSMB :
Exile -- Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble -- المنفى - جيلاد
http://folkmusicsmb.blogspot.com/2008/02/exile-gilad-atzmon-orient-house.html

Saturday, 16 February 2008

Exile -:- Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble -:- المنفى - جيلاد اتزمن ومجموعة بيت الشرق


Album :Exile المنفى

Artists :Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble
جيلاد اتزمن ومجموعة بيت الشرق

Romano Viazzani: accordion (tracks 4, 9)
Koby Israelite: accordion (tracks 2, 5, 6, 8)
Peter Watson: accordion (track 1)
Dhafer Youssef: vocals, oud (track 8)
Marcel Mamliga: violinGabi Fortuna: Romanian fluteReem Kelani: vocals (tracks 1, 2)
Tali Atzmon: vocals (track 9)

Melodies :
{1}.Dal'ouna on the return (trad. Palestinian) 4:45
{2}.Al-Quds (Gilad Atzmon) 9:59
{3}.Jenin (Gilad Atzmon) 5:50
{4}.Ouz (Yochanan Zaray & Gilad Atzmon) 7:39
{5}.Orient house (Gilad Atzmon) 6:00
{6}.Land of Canaan (Gilad Atzmon) 5:57
{7}.Exile (trad. Ladino, arr. Gilad Atzmon) 4:36
{8}.La Côte Méditerranée (Gilad Atzmon) 3:28
{9}.Epilogue (Gilad Atzmon) 3:29
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Atzmon is Israeli explicitly anti-Zionist
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بيت الشرق : بناية فلسطينية دات طابع اكاديمي سياسي يعتبرها الفلسطينيون رمز لسلطتهم السيادية على القدس
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GILAD ATZMON Website
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From wiki.
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About the Album : "...his most recent album, Israeli expatriate jazz musician Gilad Atzmon achieves an awesome fusion of jazz and Middle Eastern music. Less genre-bending than the recent album by fellow expatriate Koby Israelite, this album is nonetheless solid and deep. Opening with the amazing voice of Reem Kelani, this is both an album about exile, but also an album in which a space for exiles, and for those in transit, is created. It is also disquieting, and will be especially disquieting to many given the current situation in Israel. To realize that the quiet, moving ballad, "Jenin" is a transposition of a Yiddish folk song about a Russian town in which a pogrom was carried about is not a quiet thing, especially in the light of recent history of Jenin (and myths about same). Similarly, the humor of "Ouz", out of the Israeli comedy "Salah Shabati", is darkened, considerably, by the commentary in the liner notes. Yet for the weeks before I read the liner notes, it was all simply brilliant fusion, beautifully and passionately done.
This is not a generic album about exile. Those who read the papers regularly know that the Orient House is the PLO headquarters in Jerusalem. Atzmon is explicitly anti-Zionist in his writing. The choice of words for the songs that have words, the choice of material, much of this is informed by explicitly championing the cause of Palestinians in exile as against that of his homeland, Israel. In being forced to come to terms with himself as an Israeli, Atzmon is, in other senses, in exile from his own people, and perhaps (but who am I to say?) in exile from himself.
What I can say for certain is that the music is compelling, wonderful jazz, expertly, indivisably fused with Arabic modes and music at times, but still, great jazz. Atzmon is an incredible saxophonist, and the ensemble is tight and expressive. The music is compelling. The words behind the music are also worth hearing."
Reviewed by Ari Davidow
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