i wish the middle east was exactly like this!

Avishai Cohen - Arab Medley

Rosemary Standley - Sega Jacquot

Francesca Colli - voce
Hugo Venturelli - chitarra e voce
Giuseppe Pinto - tromba

El Pajaro - Lhasa de Sela

From the album New Song.

Omer Avital - bass
Avishai Cohen - trumpet
Joel Frahm - tenor saxophone
Yonathan Avishai - piano
Daniel Freedman - drums

New Middle East

Orchestrated improvisation.

A jam session between me, myself and I !

2024.

This piece is base on a piano improvisation. Raw recording of the score. No editing. 

All instruments share the same score, with the exception of the double bass which has its own score to add “body” to the piece.

Jazzy Pulsion

Ethiopia https://soundcloud.com/jackhicham/ethiopian-groove-podcast-jackhicham
Hypnotic grooves from the legendary Tesfa Maryam Kidané

Tesfa Maryam Kidané - Heywèté

Cover #23 from the series "Songs I Love" by Piers Faccini
Free download: http://www.unlock.fm/8a8

I first sang this song in 2010 when my friend Mauro Durante invited me to perform with his band Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino at the festival Le Notte Bianca in Puglia. 'Bella ci dormi' was traditionally sung by musicians under the balconies of women who were being proposed to but the tradition of the serenade and the custom of paying a musician to sing as a gesture of love has all but disappeared. Even if the concept of the serenade could do with a little C21st tweaking, I can’t help thinking that making a mixtape or a digital playlist for someone doesn’t have quite the same romantic quality as being sung to under a balcony in the light of the full moon but I may be wrong! 
 
Mauro visited me recently at home as we were writing the lyrics for a song on the new album called Bring down the wall, my words in English, his in the Salentino dialect. In between writing lyrics, we also found the time to record together a new cover for Vol II of Songs I Love.

Here’s 'Bella Ci Dormi', as always it’s a simple, no frills recording with Mauro on violin and me on guitar. I really hope you’ll enjoy it!

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http://www.idreamedanisland.com
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SONGS I LOVE Vol II

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Piers Faccini ft. Mauro Durante - Bella Ci Dormi (Songs I Love #23)

Argentinian twin sisters Laura et Gianna Caronni were born in a family of Swiss, Italian, Russian and Spanish origins, where the music of Opera and Tango intertwined. They studied classical music, moved to France in 1998, where they played with Argentinian musicians (Juan Cedron, Juan Carlos Cáceres...). The sisters’ music reflects all these musical influences and something more, intimate and personal, that only belongs to them.

Gianna et Laura Caronni sont deux soeurs jumelles d'origine argentine nées sous le signe du tango, ascendants candombé,  chacarera, milonga et musique classique. Leurs chansons, c’est la synthèse de tout cela, et tout autre chose à la fois, une nostalgie aux sons chauds et caressants du violoncelle et de la clarinette, et deux voix en parfaite harmonie.

LAS HERMANAS CARONNI Los ejes de mi carreta

Laughter Through Tears

Refugee

watcha clan - balkan qoulou

This track is from the album Imbarca and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/barcelonagipsyklezmerorc

Djelem Djelem

Bassist and composer Omer Avital is one of today’s most striking musicians. Praised by critics as, “extraordinary” (New York Times), “roaringly inventive” (JAZZIZ), “a pioneer in combining jazz with myriad world music elements” (LA Times) and, “one of the most exciting musicians to come onto the jazz scene in the last 20 years” (DownBeat), Omer Avital is a visionary composer and virtuoso musician whose genre-defying ensembles are pushing the boundaries of jazz expression, combining music from his cultural background with modern Western jazz, and providing audiences with swing and spiritual sustenance in equal measure. With his extraordinary vision, Avital can rightly be called one of the most unique musicians of his generation.

New Middle East

Omer Avital

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