Ido Bukelman’s Cracked Song
Cracked Song tells the story of the task of searching for a song.
This may seem strange, after all, what does free jazz and ‘songs’ have to do in common?
Well, both the song and the free improvisation evolve from the same sacred rooms of the heart, where feelings meet inspiration, and goes through the musician’s vocabulary, that shapes the combo of feelings/inspiration into a language. So the sounds and textures of the musicians who improvise create their own song of the moment.
Ido Bukelman’s quartet musical influences range from the grand papa Ornette Coleman, to the energetic experimentation of Jimi Hendrix, and of course, modern classical and free music.
All these elements are channeled towards the creation of a new lyrical sound.
- Ido Bukelman – electric & acoustic Guitars
- Yuval Mesner – Cello
- Assaf Hakimi – double bass
- Udi Shlomo – percussion
[RIYL] Eric Friedlander, John Abercrombie, Marc Ribot, Ornette Coleman
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Yoni Kretzmer – Overlook
Bursting melodies, poppy ballads and abstract lines are all part of this quartets day to day vocabulary.
Yoni Kretzmer‘s Tel Aviv group has been on the local scene for a couple of years now, providing their own interpretations to the modern era free jazz style.
This working band of close friends has been developing and (e)maturing and have finally released their first Studio CD.
- Yoni Kretzmer – Tenor Sax
- Nitai Levi – Bass Clarinet
- Shai Ran – Double Bass
- Haim Peskoff – Drums
[RIYL] Tim Berne, Cecil Taylor, Mats Gustafson, Evan Parker, Mathew Shipp
EFT
EFT (Electro Free Trio) was formed at the Tel Aviv`s “October Jazz” festival, when the three members met for the first time, and played a free-improvised performance, seeking to find the fusion points between them.
The unique instrumentation combination (electronics, drums and guitar) and immediate mutual crash between the musicians, created a wonderful experience from the get go, and in no time, it was obvious that they have something going.
EFT’s music relays mainly on the unique improvisational language created by the interaction between the members of the trio. This language embodies elements of Noise, Improvised Music, Free Jazz and Rock, thus creating an immense sound and wild textures and layers.
This is the trio’s first studio recording.
- Ido Bukelman – Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
- Ofer Bymel – Drums
- Daniel Davidovsky – Electronics
[RIYL] Food, John Zorn, Spring Heel Jack, Jimi Hendrix, Ikue Mori
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Ido Bukelman – Solo
Ido Bukelman plays music to the march of broken beats using dis-harmonized melodies and weird structures. It’s a free style, sometimes shapeless form of music.
In the album, the dominant sound is almost entirely Ido’s acoustic guitar, usually tuned down in couple of tones, but it also features some layers of feedbacks, swirled sounds and strange squeaks, made by Bukelman’s abuse of his poor little Martin.
Bukelman’s Solo album is his debut solo recording.
[RIYL] Derek Bailey, Marc Ribot, Marc Ducret, James “Blood” Ulmer, Evan Parker, Bill Orcutt
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Ehran Elisha/Roy Campbell – Watching Cartoons With Eddie (2011)
Watching Cartoons with Eddie, is the culmination of nearly two decades of collaborative work between drummer-composer Ehran Elisha and trumpeter-composer Roy Campbell, both native New Yorkers who have been prominent on the Jazz and New Music scene for many years.
Though comprised of only two instrumentalists, the album’s compositions, improvisations, and textures suggest an orchestral scope, and a panorama of stylistic ideas and aesthetics.
Along with their own creative concepts, Elisha and Campbell have created pieces that pay tribute to their inspirations, influences, and mentors, in works such as “For BD” (Bill Dixon) and the title track, a piece dedicated to the music and memory of the legendary drummer Ed Blackwell.
This album, recorded in Brooklyn, NY, in 2008, is a major statement in the art of the Jazz duet form between two kindred musical souls.
[RIYL] Ed Blackwell, Don Chery, Bill Dixon, Milford Graves, Rashied Ali
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Ehran Elisha/Harold Rubin/Haim Elisha – East Of Jaffa
Sages is the title that composer-improviser-percussionist Ehran Elisha called the final track on the album East of Jaffa.
That piece, a duet between Ehran’s father Haim on piano and clarinetist Harold Rubin, brings together two musical sages in a stunning few minutes of empathy and dialogue.
Both in trio and varied duo settings, the music on this album involves total improvisation.
The astonishing results play out as if each piece was painstakingly considered and composed, yet with an air of joyous spontaneity, a testament to the big ears and collaborative spirits of Rubin and the Elishas.
The trio walked into a room in Tel Aviv in April of 2011, created this music, and then it was over.
It now belongs to the listener.
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