Irit Dekel & Eldas Zitrin: “Last Of Songs”
Often the standards of the American songbook be discovered by pop singers who are getting on in years and want to prove that they also have the reputable specialist of classic plan or of jazz musicians who like popular, preferring to play to packed houses than in small Clubs. Irit Dekel and Eldad Citrine from Tel Aviv had a different idea. They did not create the umpteenth rehash of popular songs unknown, but something that is itself an original.
Your home Israel is the musical melting pot of many cultures, in a way, this music is a modern soundtrack for our time, which is marked by a new nomadism. The singer Irit comes from a Ukrainian family immigration and Eldad has part Greek, part Polish roots. He made his musical beginnings as a classical pianist. From this he worked his way into the Jazz, only to end up with pop music. But the music is in a jazz club in Persia as much at home as in an oriental show in Central Park in New York or in a Berlin concert hall: modern music world in 2015 precisely.
‘Last Of Songs’ create ‘originals’ from the covers. This music is can be labeled a modern soundtrack of our times – shaped by a new nomadism, as both of you of your own special family-roots. It is modern worldmusic from 2015.
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