JAZZTHETIK 09 – 10 2015
People who have been to Tel Aviv can totally understand what Irit Dekel means when she says that Tel Aviv is the true melting pot of the world. Cultures meet, bring their instruments with them – the musician with the electric guitar meets Turkish clarinette players, elctronic sound fiddlers meet Saz virtuosos and Bass players masters of the Kanun. Together with Irit Dekel and Eldad Zitrin the listener starts a musical voyage that starts 1958 and goes backwards to 1929. The pieces found on that way are gathered and dismanteled, slowed down and put upon an oriental sound carpet. These pieces include „Bye,Bye Love“, a song pretty much everyone knows in the version of the Everly Brothers, or „Good Morning Heartache“, originally sung by Billie Holiday. With „Last Of Songs“ the Duo moves not only between the East and the West, but also between the past, the present and the future. They adorn the pieces with an oppulence of sounds that would suit well any big, big Hollywood blockbuster. During this exiting sound trip the listener will More over discover what really timeless music is. That is music in which you can discover new things after all those years, so that you get the feeling of hearing notes that weren’t in the song yesterday.
Franz X.A. Zipperer
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