YIN YANG was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance.
Like Pastorius, Clarke, and Patitucci before him, Victor Wooten is on a quest to take the electric bass to a new level of consciousness. As anyone who has heard him play can attest, he has more than enough talent to do just that. His third solo release, the double-disc YIN-YANG, displays all of his many talents including his exceptional vocal abilities. The styles covered here are almost too numerous to name: jazz, funk, fusion, R&B, blue grass, avant-garde, and more. Wooten handles them all expertly and sometimes all at the same time...

Ahh, cohesion. Without it, music nearly always suffers. Without it, music is just a series of moments strung together at random. When I get a new album and I find that it’s as cohesive as the new Estradasphere is, I generally tend to be very happy. But this is Estradasphere we’re talking about here. Their charm is (or, rather, was) their ability to string things together that totally don’t belong and make it work. Their first two albums were fantastic amalgams of just about any genre you could imagine. And they weren’t just limited to one genre per song. In some cases there were five, six, or more genres in a single tune. Absent of reason, the pure energy and craziness drove their music to greater levels than Mr. Bungle or any other previous genre benders. But now, 2003 has brought us Quadropus and there’s no sense beating around the bush; it’s a bit of a let down. It certainly has its high points, but it’s missing something. Something important. That would be the pure, unadulterated zaniness of Estradasphere’s past...

When the author Vladimir Megre was starting a business trip on a Siberian river he couldn´t know that so many strange events would be awaiting for him which would change his life and the life of many people. In a remote village in the Taiga he met a woman who has a God-given talent of complete natural being and who knows the biggest secrets of being on earth. In spite of her talents she has stayed a human being, a woman with her feelings, wishes and longings. The way to physical and mental health is not very complicated or only to be managed in a difficult manner but can be realized in a very simple way for everybody...

Last year, we left Avishai Cohen with Aurora, his first record with Blue Note. On this opus brimming with heady charm, the double-bass player, composer, pianist and arranger added yet another string to his bow: vocals, a talent he had discreetly deployed on some previous recordings, now asserted loud and clear. Aurora showcased Avishai Cohen’s talent in a new light: the composer with wandering lyrics, the phenomenal musician, the astounding stage performer, the one Chick Corea called a genius, the musician that Down Beat defined as a jazz visionary, all stepped aside to reveal a vocalist with a gentle voice and cosmopolitan tone, with Hebrew and Arab-Andalusian overtones...

In this new recording, composer Piris Eliyahu, an ethno-musician, a master of Middle-Eastern Music, a teacher and a Tar player, presents us with his lastest composition which was inspired by the Book of Psalms and was based on King David's psalms. Through tones of this musical composition, the composer has been trying to express the King's feelings, his spiritual mightiness, his faith, the way he himself senses it. In this creative search for the right tones which constitute the Psalms in the Biblical time, Piris Eliyahu has been experimenting in reviving the ancient musical and poetic forms, such as "Mizmor", "Tehilla" (Accolade), "Halleluya", "Shir HaMa'alot" (Song of the Virtues) and others..

Zamir returned to his native Israel after three critically-acclaimed albums in the United States on the Tzadik record label, He explored singing on his 2005 Israeli release 'Zamir Sings (Pop!)'. and a year later became a well-known name on the Israeli scene with his 2006 CD Amen...

Beri Saharof & Rea Mohiah playing on Stage the poems of Ibn Gavirol, the great Sefaradi (Spanish jewish) poet of all times. The Representative of the golden age of the jewish community of the spanish jews wrote many songs and poems, which deals mainly with the Philosophic side of life, and combined into an impression creation, this live performance include also a bonus track that's not in the album called 'Kichlot yeinee'. this music is A unique way to combine Rock n' Roll with Middle-Eastern Jewish music, very rich, wonderful surprise.
8 other musicians geathered for this special Concert in the Jerusalem Theater to bring you what was Originally a concert based music, that was born to be played live, this is an excellent Recording DIRECTLY from the Concert's Main Audio Mixer. Enjoy!

Let's get the obvious out of the way first. This is a great film. But more than that, it is an important film.
Before The Music Dies says a lot of the things many music fans have been thinking for years now. It also asks the single most fundamental question many of us have pondered over: Has the music industry abandoned both music fans--and more importantly, the musicians themselves--in the almighty name of commerce over actual art?..

Ziryab Trio consists of Taiseer Elias (oud), Nassim Dakwar (violin) and Zohar Fresco (percussion). "Mashreq Classics" was recorded live in the Jerusalem Theater during the Israel Festival in June, 1995. In this concert, the Ziryab Trio was accompanied by Avraham Salman (kanun) and Emmanuel Mann (bass) these are most of the Players from the 'Bustan Abraham' Ensemble.

Yaron Pe’er’s Debut Album, Orian, is a global collaboration of 25 esteemed musicians from countries including Sudan, Egypt, Israel and India. The album was created and recorded over the course of a year in the Sinai Desert, which Yaron calls “the land of believers.” The desert inspires the album, and its’ purity and clarity is offered to the listeners. Multi-instrumental Pe’er composed and arranged the music while performing vocals and playing the oud, sarangi, guitar, buzuki, saxophone, and the surmandal. Orian’s lyrics, which are mainly derived from Psalms and Song of Songs, are brought to life with vibrant Sudanese, Hindu, Greek, Egyptian and Kavkas melodies and instruments...

Ehud Banai, George Samaan and Salem Darwish first met 23 years ago, producing not only a night-long musical session but also personal friendship and artistic collaboration that have developed and strengthened through the years: an Arab-Hebrew duet, woven into a rich musical idiom. "The natural, authentic sound of the earth and of this land," as the three musicians define it.

Billed as a “song cycle”, it’s a collaboration with saxophonist/composer Gilad Atzmon and violinist/composer Ros Stephen, and accordingly credited to Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen. It features a number of original Wyatt songs alongside standards such as ‘Round Midnight’ and ‘In A Sentimental Mood’. Domino Records, who will release For The Ghosts Within on CD, vinyl and digital on October 11, describe it as placing Wyatt’s voice “amid the seductive drama of string quartet, alto saxophone, and the universal rhythms of the night”.

The second release of New York-based Israeli guitarist Eyal Maoz alt-klezmer quartet Edom is a schizophrenic one. On one hand, Maoz faithfully follows Tzadik founder John Zorn's hybridized post-modern pastiche of klezmer and Jewish musical traditions, and musical references that are typical of the label's Radical Jewish Culture series. This is most audible in the manner that Maoz adopts the angst and skronk style of Zorn's leading guitarist in his Jewish-related projects, Marc Ribot. On the other hand, this release represents Maoz's clear attempt to distance himself from Zorn's burdening heritage and articulate his own musical language, one that is rooted with Jewish/Middle-Eastern sounds, ironic and sometimes even a sarcastic. Unfortunately, he does not dare to go all the way.

Shye Ben-Tzur is an acclaimed Israeli composer, producer and performer based in North India for the past decade, playing Rajasthani rhythms with Western sounds.
Shoshan is a cross-cultural mix of passions, genres, languages and irresistible beats. He is the Hebrew Qawwali singer of today, spreading a message of love and understanding.

Shye Ben-Tzur is an Israeli composer/ producer and performer who has been living, and creating in India for the last decade. His journey to the Indian sub continent has begun while searching for a Classical Indian music teacher and a guide. After years of studying Indian classical music in the traditional manner, Shye had felt the urge to compose music using his own language. His debut album Heeyam (Supreme love), was recorded in India, Israel, and USA. It was released in 2003, and earned great applause. In Heeyam Shye has worked with traditional Sufi Qawwali singers...