Uri Zer Aviv
By Uri Zer Aviv
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The Schmooze Bringing French Poems to Pop
Crossposted from Haaretz Riff Cohen’s sweet and infectious new French pop song, “A Paris,” has been gaining popularity and radio exposure, mostly thanks to the video clip Cohen directed herself in Paris in collaboration with Ravid Kahalani, founder of the “Yemen Blues” project. Cohen, 27, is a francophone Tel Avivian. She is the daughter of…
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The Schmooze Band From the North Country
Crossposted from Haaretz The Louisa band is still not so well known in Tel Aviv, but in the north of the country the rock band that Idan Talmud and Itay Sacharof formed has drawn a devoted audience for more than a year, despite their cautious abstention from too much publicity and exaggerated digital hype on…
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The Schmooze Israel’s Woodstock in the Desert
Crossposted from Haaretz The fifth annual inDnegev music festival at Mitzpeh Gvulot starts this Thursday and continues throughout the weekend. With the exception of the first inDnegev, tickets for the festival sell out well before the gates open, and this year 3,500 are expected to attend. The festival organizers — friends and Negev residents Matan…
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The Schmooze Jimi Hendrix of the Desert
Crossposted from Haaretz “Bombino” is the nickname of Omara Moctar, a singer and virtuoso electric guitarist from the wandering Tuareg tribes of the Sahara Desert in the African country of Niger. Thanks to his special style of playing, combining an ancient musical tradition with influences of electric blues and Western psychedelics, his fine debut album,…
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The Schmooze Not in Her Sister’s Footsteps
Crossposted from Haaretz “I come from a very musical home, but one that is also quite traditional in its approach to art and did not push me to ask a lot of questions,” says Odeya Nini in an attempt to find the source of the contemporary art she is creating in the United States, in…
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The Schmooze Algeria and Jamaica, By Way of Golan Heights
Crossposted from Haaretz Brothers Hasan and Rami Nakhleh, from the Golan Heights Druze village of Majdal Shams, were raised on classical music. Classical Arab music, that is. Hassan studied Oriental violin. He can play, in their considerable entirety, works made famous by singers Umm Kulthum, Fairuz and other great “roots” musicians, as he calls them….
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