Basel Zayed was born in Jerusalem in 1979. Started playing music at an early age. When he was 14 he began studying Piano and Oud, as well as receiving professional training for his voice. Zayed studied Oud and sang in the Arabic Choir of the Edward Said Conservatory of Music. Following his study in the National Conservatory. 
Zayed started studying music composition and harmony at the Magnificent Institute for Holy Music in Jerusalem. Since 1995 Zayed started to play music with many groups and with a number of artists, all of which had exposed him to different styles of music which formed a unique and distinguished artist in the field of alternative music. 	

Basel an accomplished virtuoso Oud player and vocalist skilled in highly developed Arab musical traditions, is also a trained pianist with a unique outlook on musical arrangement made him a member of many successful artistic ideas and performing groups, such as making and recording of soundtracks for movies, plays and dance groups.

As a music composer, arranger, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Zayed became an important contributor to Palestinian and Arabic music, through the integration of Arabic music with all its musically unique elements, and Western music with its various forms of jazz, reggae, pop and classical music, that has gained acclaim both locally and internationally.
For the past ten years, Basel has led the band Turab and has more recently focused on developing a style based on Palestinian music ‘with a jazz flavor’- Ara-Jazz. Ara-Jazz has been Basel's dream for a long time and now it is becoming a reality on stage and soon to be recorded on a number of records.

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The Dangerous Summer audience is more family than a fanbase. The community feeling is apparent at every gig, from Slam Dunk to Riot Fest, from touring with State Champs to headlining shows. 

Cofounding frontman AJ Perdomo (vocals, bass), Josh Whitenshaw (guitar) and Christian Zawacki (drums) put everything into anything they do. The Dangerous Summer signed their first record deal as high school seniors and quickly established themselves among the alt-rock world’s elite. 

Passionate delivery, confessional authenticity, and deeply resonant musical storytelling define their sound. The band writes hooks that serve as soundtracks for important life moments for a diverse group of listeners spread across the globe.

The Dangerous Summer never sacrificed their unique, diverse sonic identity, one that appeals to fans of everything from Kings Of Leon and Coldplay to Jimmy Eat World and Bright Eyes. Gravity is a triumphant summary of what The Dangerous Summer is all about, past, present, and future.

Sometimes, Mitski feels life would be easier without hope, or a soul, or love. But when she closes her eyes and thinks about what’s truly hers, what can’t be repossessed or demolished, she sees love. “The best thing I ever did in my life was to love people,” she says. “I wish I could leave behind all the love I have after I die, so I can shine all this goodness, all this good love that I’ve created onto other people.” She hopes her newest album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, will shine love long after she’s gone. That’s precisely how it feels: like a love that’s haunting the land.

“This is my most American album,” she says. The music feels like a profound act of witnessing this country, in all of its private sorrows and painful contradictions. Sonically Mitski’s most epic and wise album, the songs introduce wounds and then actively heal them. Here, love is time-traveling to bless our tender days, like light from a distant star.

It's full of the ache of the grown-up, seemingly mundane heartbreaks and joys that are often unsung but feel enormous. It’s a tiny epic. From the bottom of a glass, to a driveway slushy with memory and snow, to a freight train barreling through the Midwest, and all the way to the moon, it feels like everything and everyone is crying out in pain, arching towards love. Love is that inhospitable land, beckoning and then rejecting us. To love this place, this earth, this America, this body takes work. It might be impossible. The best things are.

I've used this to save music that's interested me over the years, usually for different purposes.  Hope you enjoy what I've found!

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