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	POSTED BY: Yair Dalal --- November 19th 2008
	Ancient & Modern, East & West, World Music, Jazz & Blues, all these combine in this dynamic ethno-jazz recording featuring the exotic sounds of the ancient oud and the ultra modern EWI - Electronic Wind Instrument. From the Orient to the Blues blends the ageless sounds of the oud with the drive of the EWI - electronic wind instrument. In the hands of four celebrated virtuoso musicians, the result is truly exhil Read more »

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YAIR DALAL

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[Israel]

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Yair Dalal, born in 1955; composer, violinist, oud player and singer; is probably the most prolific Israeli ethnic musician and plays an important role in shaping the global world music scene. Over the last decade he has put 11 albums, covering wide and varied cultural territory, and authentically representing Israel’s cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal’s work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. Dalal’s family came to Israel from Baghdad and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work. Whether working on his own, or with his Alol ensemble, Dalal creates new Middle Eastern music by interweaving the traditions of Iraqi and Jewish Arabic music with a range of influences originating from such diverse cultural milieus as the Balkans to India. The evocative compositions comprise a unique and colorful sound. Apart from creating music, Dalal devotes his time to preserving musical heritages from becoming extinct - the Babylonian musical heritage and the music of the Bedouins (the Sinai desert nomads).

MICHAł ŻAK

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[Poland]

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Musician (wooden flute, clarinet, shawm, bansuri flute) associated with widely understood ethnic music scene. I perform jazz and improvised music and I learn traditional Indian and Polish music being an apprentice of village musicians. I compose and play music for silent films. I've performed in Europe, Asia, Africa and the USA. I'm involved in promotion of the wooden transverse flute movement in Poland as well as in preserving cultural heritage of Polish village. I am a member of Lautari ethno-jazz group and I am also involved in several music, theatre and performance projects. I'm a prizewinner of the Polish Radio's New Tradition Contest (1st prize 2007 – Kwartet Niedzwiecki/Zak/Kierzkowski/Pulcyn,1st prize Ethno Album of the Year 2006 – "Azaran" Lautari) , as well as Interational Folk Music Festival "Mikolajki Folkowe 2006" – 1st prize in the Open Stage contest as Duo Zak/Szyszkowski.

SANDRO ZERAFA

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[Malta]

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Maltese jazz guitarist and composer currently based in Paris, France. Studied at the University of Malta and at the Conservatoire de Lyon (D.E.M.) Has won several awards including 3rd prize at the Concours National de la Defense 2004, and Special Mention for Composition in 2005. Has played/recorded with a variety of internationally renowned jazz artists including Francesco Bearzatti, Nico Gori, Youn Sun Nah, Marcia Maria, Aline de Lima, Amy Gamlen, Yutaka Shiina etc. Sandro is a regular member of the Nico Gori European 4tet (with whom he recently released a CD on the Italian label Doublestroke Records), Botafogo, Robin Nicaise 6tet and he leads his own quintet - White Russian 5tet (with whom he recently released his debut CD). Sandro has performed worldwide in clubs and festivals amongst which - Istanbul Jazz Center (Istanbul, Turkey), Malta Jazz Festival (Valletta, Malta), Seoul CT Jazz Festival (Seoul, S.Korea), Teatro Studio Scandicci (Florence, Italy), Teatro Coccia (Novara, Italy), Salumeria della Musica (Milan, Italy), Music Village (Bruxelles, Belgium) and many others. Sandro holds also regular engagements in Parisian jazz. He is artistic director for Jazz Fringe festival in Malta and holds a teaching post in the Pontault Combault Conservatory in France.

SHLOMO BAR

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[Israel]

Shlomo Bar is the group's leader and moving spirit. Composer, soloist, drummer, vocalist and founder of Habrera Hativeet, Bar was born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1943. He draws much of his musical inspiration from Biblical and modern Israeli themes. On stage, Bar captivates his audience first by a steady beat on the drums, and then by drawing the other musicians into instrumental and vocal harmony. He arranges and composes most of the group's songs and plays drums and flute - all accompanied by a voice that comes from deep within his soul.
"With the oriental approach to art," says Bar,"there has to be continuity between past and present. In my music I try to create this bond to be a link in the chain connecting my parents to my children."

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ELISEO PARRA will record a new live CD and DVD

Certainly, Eliseo Parra has consolidated as the Spanish artist with more international projection, showing the variety and richness of our traditional Spanish music.
Eliseo Parra and their band bring us with more force and vitality (outcome of several years without pause on the stage) a new live broadcast… fresh, vital and contagious, with new themes and fusions that will surprise us even more than what we are

JOSE ANTONIO RAMOS "VERY JAR"

Jose Antonio Ramos is a Canaries artist who has introduced the art of the “timple” to a completely unedited acoustic spectrum. His experiences in a variety of genres (jazz, flamenco, Celtic, symphonic…) have brought admiration to all those who listened to his work and new proposals. This new album reverts back to the more genuine and innovating José Antonio Ramos. Drawing from cultures but also turning his music to more contemporary sounds. This way we can have the opportunity to listen to more traditional and acoustic sounds of the “timple” but also for the first time in the history of music, more experimental sounds of the MIDI “timple” or “timple” synthesiser, creating Ramos’ own initiative.

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Comando Macondo: an exotic dish with appetising ingredients

This is an atypical musical proposal that combines different genres of Brazilian music with Latin sounds, (pop and electronic) thereby COMANDO MACONDO claiming the Latin American imagination.Their music can be delicate and intimate, while being pulsating and dynamic, with the warm and sensual voice of Spanish Markos Bayón, and sweet and evocative singing of the Brazilian Glaucia Mendes.In their concerts, the music i

The Dervishes of Cairo: a gift of a Nile

The group “the Dervishes of Cairo” was born in the year 2001, with the purpose of safeguarding and to diffusing the Egyptian traditional and popular music and, especially, the sufie dances. Their force and their prodigious concentration capacity in the dance, as well as the music's brilliant interpretation and the trance rhythms that at great speed produce vertigo and happiness in the public have converted them, in little time, in one of the groups of more projection inside and out of their country.
The “Derviches of Cairo” present to us a dynamic show, colouring of an impressive master with marked difference to the sufie Turkish dances. The team participates in various festivals and events, national and international, the intercultural festivals of the community of Madrid 2005 the first edition of folkloric festival of EL Cairo 2006 and won golden pyramid prize. They participated in the final ceremony of the Olympic games in Asia in Qatar 2006, and ultimately of Hurgada in the Red Sea, in January 2007.
Today they act daily in the stages of Egypt presenting their art to the Egyptians and tourists who visit there from the four corners of the world.

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EuroMed Music Festival, 2007

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The end-of-summer festival organized by the Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism took place at the open terrace of the Gödör club, supported by the Anna Lindh Foundation and in accordance with their aims. (www.euromedalex.org).

During the 3-day festival, taking place on August 23-25, 2007, a series of 9 concerts were staged with the participation of 27 musicians from Hungary, and 18 musicians from Jordan

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This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the Anna Lindh Foundation.

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