Fuldaer Zeitung 14.02.2015
Jazz from Jerusalem – A Duo on a stylish trip around the world
By Björn Gauges
The world is border less and beautiful – according to Irit Dekel and Eldad Zitrin.
And they start a voyage that leads them to the most thrilling places in world music.
East meets west – and that meeting is infinitely sensitive and harmonious. Finally! we want to cry out , the seemingly uncompatible get united.
Part of the secret might be the melting pot Jerusalem where the duo lives and meets. Wildly different cultural influences in front of their doors.
But the starting point of singer Irit Dekel and multi instrumentalist Eldad Zitrin lies somewhere else. For their album „Last Of Songs“ (available only digitally on iTunes)
They have interpreted 12 jazz standards together with many musical guests.
Some of the titles are universally known classics like “Bye Bye Love“ or „Willow Weep“ – but they come along in surprisingly new robes.
„Get Happy“, for example, starts with a delicate Turkish solo clarinet, but then swells with enormous instrumental force into an orchestral soundtrack that could illustrate an epic movie like „Lawrence of Arabia“. Other traces lead to the Tango of Argentina, to the swinging New York or the Berlin of the Golden Twenties.
Eldad Zitrin explains his approach : “We use instruments from different cultures and combine them with songs that were born in Israel almost 100 years ago“. That sounds like unrestrained optimism – not only in this sentence.
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