Irit Dekel & Eldad Citrine – Last of Songs
Genre: Jazz / Chanson / World Label: Pinorrekk Records (noble culture)
CD; Release: – 07.24.2015
For this album, it may actually be only one Description: wonderful, perfect, gradios. It gets more difficult as even to unravel why. Because here many components come together, the result only in their teeth to a Gesamtkunstwerk. Who are the main perpetrators? Irit Dekel and Eldad citrine, citizens from the multi-cultural Tel Aviv, the intersection of East and West, between Orient and Occident, from Arab world and embossed embossed Christian world and thus artistic center of the Middle East. Both had the idea of jazz standards of the 30s and 40s revamp with all the ingredients that could be found in their environment: With pop elements, World Music ingredients, folk music as chanson, klezmer, waltz and tango.”Last of Songs” is thus a perfect cover album. However, one that sounds quite unlike anything previously known.
Because it was necessary to implement the principle that the new songs should be better than the original. Hard to believe, but the thing has hingehauen to 100%. The result are pieces that are old and new at the same time, the one hand, exude the spirit of bygone eras, on the other hand so firmly anchored in the present time that you think you hear hip new compositions. Known versions of, for example, Eartha Kitt, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Cassandra Wilson and Simon and Garfunkel are sheer creative Reformation hardly recognizable. For sparkle and they now shine in a completely new light and the – as I said – far better than the original forms. Many Strings perform their work here, but also synthesizers, laptop working, instruments or lots of percussion provide both oriental and for western flair. Lynchpin, however, Irit Dekel, everything enchants with her voice. An absolute blast of the season, because both are perfect representatives of a young Israeli generation of musicians. We notice on the fly only one has a similar content Full: Jun Miyake , but who comes from Japan www.lastofsongs.com
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