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Yemen Blues - Yemen Blues by Ravid Kahalani (2011)

marmaduke0 — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:00:20 GMT

"Shaped by his origins as a Yemeni Jew, the fascinating voice of Ravid Kahalani brilliantly evokes the musical universe of his ancestors. Stretching like a slow caravan crossing the desert, it winds through West African blues and the thousand and one vibrations of the Sahara, Nubian, Gnawi, Touaregs, Saidi and Bambara. This luscious mix of jazz tonalities, which also crosses into funk, rings out as an ode to to African grooves and a modern echo of the ancestral rhythms. Ravid Kahalani creates a canvas printed both with deep emotions when his rasping laments tear open the heavens,but also with popular jubilation when the percussions, the oud, the celloand the brass instruments interweave in a harmonious dance that is complex and resolutely modern. A joyful oasis in the middle of the desert..."

Yemen Blues - Live at the Jewish Culture Festival [Krakow, Poland]

marmaduke0 — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:42:18 GMT

Yemen blues is an original and a fascinating meeting between the traditional Yemenite melodies & the world of blues, jazz and funk. The flavors of the West African music roots and the enhanced modern compositions are bringing together a breathtaking experience mixture of beautiful complex grooves. Yemen Blues was founded by Ravid Kahalani, a talented singer who grew up to a traditional Yemanite family, learned the language and the traditional chants of his origin, and extended his influences in the areas of blues & west African soul, from the Sahara desert, thru the classical Opera singing to the Afro American blues. Ravid joined forces with Omer Avital, a well known bass player and compositor, and togehter they gathered 'Yemen Blues', a supergroup of top musicians from New york, Israel and Uruguay. Yemen Blues concerts are the ultimate celebration of African grooves, a pure happiness & deep emotion Yemenite singing, a new music experience and innovative sound.

The Flaming Lips - U.F.O's At The Zoo - The Legendary Concert In Oklahoma City (2007)

marmaduke0 — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:48:36 GMT

The Flaming Lips' live show is an experience that is both indescribable and unbeatable. Finally the first live DVD from The Flaming Lips has arrived! 'U.F.O's at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City' captures the over-the-top spectacle of the band's first hometown show in several years. Filmed at the Zoo Amphitheatre in front of a capacity crowd of manic furry fanatics on Sept 15 2006, the film captures the sonic and visual sensory overload that is The Flaming Lips live experience!

Avishai Cohen Quartet - Live at Brno, Czech Republic (2004)

marmaduke0 — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:55:53 GMT

As my search of Avishai's matirial continue, this great gig fell into my lap not long ago, and i had to share it with you - all of avishai's fan! this quartet is brilliant, and you can really fly with this concert, sweet sweet moments of jazz!! it has a great sound also!

Yemen Blues - Yemen Blues (2011)

marmaduke0 — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:08:28 GMT

Avishai Cohen Trio - “Seven Seas” - Cully Jazz Festival (2011)

marmaduke0 — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:15:36 GMT

This is a recent show of Avishai in Swiss playing 'Seven Seas' at the Cully Jazz Festival with a Trio in a more 'Gently Disturbed' Vibes in it. on the drums is the new jazz prodigy from Israel the young Amir Bresler. The bassist and composer Avishai Cohen presents visionary jazz beyond genre boundaries. Having been with Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock on tour, he is now leader of a quintet and one of the most exciting musicians in contemporary jazz.

Avishai Cohen Trio - Live at Huy, Belgium (2011)

marmaduke0 — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:25:45 GMT

A Rudolf Rocker Release!; As Itamar Doari has just become a father and is less keen to tour, for his European tour in the Spring of 2011, Avishai returns to the "Gently Disturbed" format of a trio with kit drums, this time played by Amir Bresler, who debuted on Amos Hoffman's 2010 CD "Carving" before making his first live appearance with Avishai, Shai, Itamar, Karen and Amos at the Brosella open-air festival in Brussels on 11th July 2010 (unrecorded). The next week, on the 19th, the sextet played at Juan Les Pins in France, a concert broadcast by satellite television (available). The group would revert to a quintet for a concert recorded for NDR in Hamburg on November 18th (available), but following happy events in the Doari family, Amir Bresler would at last come to the fore in the reduced format of the acoustic trio of the European Spring 2011 tour...

Avishai Cohen - Live at TSF Jazz Studio ARTE Live (2010)

marmaduke0 — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:40:53 GMT

This is a Celebration to the new TSF radio Station and the first concert where Avishai played 'Seven Seas' for the first time in public. The bassist and composer Avishai Cohen presents visionary jazz beyond genre boundaries. Having been with Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock on tour, he is now leader of a quintet and one of the most exciting musicians in contemporary jazz.

Avishai Cohen Trio - “Seven Seas” - Cully Jazz Festival (2011)

marmaduke0 — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:18:24 GMT

Avishai Cohen - Live at TSF Jazz Studio (2010)

marmaduke0 — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:19:23 GMT

Avishai Cohen - Live at Juan Les Pins (2010)

marmaduke0 — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:22:49 GMT

This concert at Juan Les Pins Features the Young Drummer - Amir Bresler who also Played in Amos Hoffman's Last solo album 'Carving' .

Avishai Cohen - Aurora live at NDR Hamburg (2010)

marmaduke0 — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:21:25 GMT

"Aurora finds Avishai Cohen not only playing acoustic and electric bass, but also playing acoustic piano and electric keyboards and singing. In fact, he does a great deal of singing on this 2008 recording -- which will come as a surprise to those who think of Cohen as strictly an instrumentalist. Aurora is by no means an easy album to categorize; at the risk of oversimplifying things, one possible description could be "world jazz meets post-bop meets adult alternative."...

Avishai Cohen Trio - Live in Bremen (2008) - RARE

marmaduke0 — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:21:20 GMT

This is the full Bremen 2008 gig of Avishai Cohen with a Trio (the first Show with Itamar Doari Replacing Mark Guiliana).

Richard Galliano & Tangaria Quartet - Live in Marciac (2006)

marmaduke0 — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:30:30 GMT

Live In Marciac 2006 is a fiery, foot-on-the-accelerator mix of valse musettes, straight-ahead jazz, tunes derived from European and South American folk songs, a handful of tangos and a splash of the classics. It's physical, attacking music, and it pauses to catch its breath on just two tracks (the wistful, elegiac "Spleen" and the prettily balletic "Sanfona").

Avishai Cohen - Seven Seas [24 bits Studio Master] (2011)

marmaduke0 — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:13:53 GMT

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...

Victor Wooten - Yin Yang (1999)

marmaduke0 — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:39:12 GMT

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...

Estradasphere - Quadropus (2003)

marmaduke0 — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:13:02 GMT

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...

The Ringing Cedars Series [9 Books - Vladimir Megre]

marmaduke0 — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:31:36 GMT

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...

Avishai Cohen - Seven Seas (2011)

marmaduke0 — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:41:26 GMT

Piris Eliyahu - Tehilim [Psalms] (2005)

marmaduke0 — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:48:52 GMT

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..