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ESTA is a multi-ethnic band with innovative compositions and imaginative arrangements - deeply rooted in Israel’s diverse traditions. Founded in 1979 by Shlomo Deshet and Ori Beanstock, Esta has created a distinctive new sound, incorporating Jewish, Balkan, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, African and Celtic genres into its own pan-global sound, propelled by Rock’s energy and Jazz’s musicianship.
Performing as a group for over 25 years, Esta is among a handful of visionary artists to fuse contemporary music with folkloric styles and sounds. World Fusion isn’t just a genre Esta performs. It is its soul.
Led by harmonica innovator Jason Rosenblatt, and named for the traditional fur hat worn by Chassidic Jews, Shtreiml blends elements of klezmer, gypsy music and jazz to create a vibrant sound that is at once Eastern European Folk Music and Down-Home Blues. Shtreiml’s debut album, Harmonica Galitzianer, nominated for a Montreal Independent Music Award for Best World Music Album 2003, showcases Rosenblatt’s unique approach to playing the 10-hole diatonic harmonica or “blues harp.”
Rosenblatt uses recently devised techniques pioneered by harmonica master Howard Levy, to fit the instrument generally associated with the blues into an Eastern European context. Along with Rosenblatt the group members include trombonist Rachel Lemisch, one of the leading figures in klezmer brass revival, founding member Thierry Arsenault on drums and Montreal jam band scene mainstay Adam Stotland on bass. Frequent guests include, the stellar voice and incomparable stage presence of Yiddish folksong revivalist, Abigail Rosenblatt, along with founding member and internationally acclaimed hip-hop klezmer guru Josh (SoCalled) Dolgin.
Shtreiml is at present working with virtuoso Turkish musician Ismail Hakki Fencioglu on a project which explores the connections between Turkish and Eastern-European Jewish music. The group has performed at festivals, concerts, clubs and private functions in Canada, Europe and the U.S.
“World Fusion Beat Scientists” Zohar are led by composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Erran Baron Cohen, whose credits also include of the popular Da Ali G and Borat movie sountracks. ZOHAR weave together the beats and textures of modern club culture with hareem, hip-hop, electronica, dub and future grooves. It is a deconstruction of past, present and future, spanning Jewish Cantors, Arab Muezzins, Byzantine chants, meets today’s modern jazz and experimental musicians. Their approach is resolutely experimental and uncompromising with an instinctive feel for lush cinematic arrangements and intelligent melodies. Their acclaimed debut, One.Three.Seven.m was produced by Miles Copeland’s Ark 21 label.
The new album Do You Have any Faith? builds on ZOHAR’s previous reputation as underground pioneers of the oriental inspired jazzical influenced dance scene, that produced the legendry Buddha Bar compilations, Thievery Corporation, Dhizan and Kamien, Gotan Project and many others. This new album features many exciting collaborations. Godfather of folk inspired jazz funk Terry Callier adds his spiritual presence to Roots in Jerusalem. The amazing voice of Tunisian Paris based singer Amina Annabi(who also starred in the epic”The Sheltering Sky”) sings beautifully on Une Ange en Paix, which also features the haunting oud playing of Nabil. Legendry Buddha Bar DJ Claude Challe features on Survival, and the powerful kawali voice of Riffat Sallamat make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up on the haunting Raga.
London-based ZOHAR have already picked up a dedicated body of fans through their performances both in the UK and internationally-USA, Bali, France, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Hungary, Latvia, and at UK festivals Glastonbury, Womad, The Essential Festival, Bracknell, and Homelands. Regular appearances at the trendy Momo’s Moroccan eaterie in Central London and other firing nightclubs like Cargo, Whirl-y-gig, China White and Heaven have added to their London presence.
Emunah are “the UK’s hot new Jewish hip-hop act”, say The Guardian. The band fuse the finest elements of world music with hip-hop, breaks and drum and bass, blending musical ingredients from Klezmer to Carlebach to Bhangra with kicking beats and driving, soulful basslines that never fail to get the crowd moving. Emunah’s members stem from a broad range of ethnicities including Russian, Jewish, Palestinian and Pakistani, and their songs fuse influences from Eastern Europe to the Middle East, from Jamaica to New York, and from Kashmir to London.
Y-Love (Yitz Jordan) is an MC unlike any other. He is a black convert into the Bostoner sect of chassidus (the mystical branch of Orthodox Judaism). He is among the most innovative freestylers on the scene, weaving seamless polyglot rhymes in English, Arabic, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Most unique is Y-Love’s revival of Aramaic, the language used to discuss Jewish Law and Kabbalah. With each word he spits in the tongue of ancient Babylon, Y-Love breathes new life into hip-hop, one beat at a time.
The Afro-Semitic Experience uncovers the shared experiences of two communities through jazz arrangements of traditional Jewish and Black Spiritual songs. It is a sad commentary that during the past twenty years relations between African-Americans and Jewish-Americans have–in the wake of the dismantling of the Civil Rights movement –disintegrated. In response, these two Connecticut jazz artists, Warren Byrd and David Chevan, have created a unique musical program that merges their distinct cultures and heritages. In this musical offering, African-American jazz pianist Warren Byrd, and Jewish-American jazz bassist David Chevan combine their talents to fuse two centuries-old traditions that have served as time honored sources of comfort and strength. David and Warren have selected pieces from their traditions that speak to the soul and that emphasize and reveal the strong similarities that are at the heart of the passions, suffering and joys of these two worlds.
Hip Hop Hoodios The band’s name is a play on hood and Judios, the Spanish word for Jew, and that is as good an explanation of where their backgrounds and of their Latin-Jewish sounds as there is. Drawing on their dual Latino-Jewish heritage, Hip Hop Hoodios combine the vitality of Latin alternative music with American-Jewish culture for fun-filled, trilingual mayhem. Led by Josue Noriega, the four band members have roots in Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Mexico as well as Jewish culture. Using a mix of live instrumentation and samples, they meld Hebrew with merengue and layer Jewish-themed rhymes atop salsa rhythms to create tracks like Havana Nagila off their CD’s, Raza Hoodia and Agua pa la Gente.
A seminal force in the American ska & reggae scene, KING DJANGO has made his name internationally as a singer, ragamuffin MC, songwriter, arranger, instrumentalist (trombone, ukulele, harmonica, melodica, etc.), producer, studio engineer and record label owner (Stubborn Records). His newest album “Roots Tonic,” Django has enlisted an all-star cast of resulting in twelve crucial roots reggae cuts utilizing tuff original riddims covering a wide range of styles, complex lyrical structures, a live sound full of soul.
King Django’s Roots and Culture finds King Django applying Reggae rhythms and Ska arrangements to the sound of his Jewish heritage, performing soulful Yiddish rock-steady riddims and even translations of reggae songs into Yiddish (Night Boat to Cairo).
Long before Matisyahu put on a black hat, King Django was the undisputed, most innovative figure in Jewish Reggae. It’s a project that predated Matisyahu, and has a more flavorful and authentic approach to both the Jewish and Reggae elements it combines. With a new album and fresh material on the way, The Lion of Zion has returned, bearing sweet, reggae filled rugelach.
Drawing on diverse influences as roots reggae, dancehall, ska, rock, soul, swing, and American and Yiddish folk music, King Django has always been a hard man to pigeonhole. His versatility within genres of punk, rhythm & blues, and Jamaican grooves is unmatched, starting early as the singer / trombonist of legendary ska band The Boilers through reggae/soul/jazz experimentalists Skinnerbox (1989-1998) and mainstream recognition as the founder and leader of traditional ska supergroup Stubborn All-Stars.
Shtikeleh
On the Seventh Day
Wayfarer’s Prayer
Lomir Alle Zingen
Night Boat to Cairo
Crossroads Ensemble is award winning instrumentalists Juancho Herrera of Caracas Venezuela and Mattan Klein of Jerusalem, Israel. Born over 6000 miles apart, their roads crossed in the U.S.A. and their musical and cultural backgrounds created the foundation for an exquisite world-music collaboration. Juancho and Mattan’s love and admiration for each other’s musical tradition and rich religious culture brought together two of New York’s busiest composers and performers to create a true world-music cross-over project, which involves Latin, Jewish, Brazilian, Ladino, Jazz and Funk elements, but all the while preserves the innovative voices they both carry as representatives of their nations.
Yoel Ben Simhon leads and directs this middle-eastern fusion ensemble. Together with a talented group of multi-ethnic musicians, Ben Simhon explores the music of the Morrocan Jews in through Hebrew piyutim and Haketia (Ladino) melodies, along with song wonderful new original arrangements. Yoel Ben-Simhon says, “Sultana was the name of my grandmother, a very inspirational figure in my life, who was born in Mogador, Morocco. As a verb, saltana means ‘to dominate’ or ‘to govern’ and of course sultana means Queen.” Sultana also means ’sublime’, the enjoyment communicated by a performer to the audience through the artistic and technical mastery of the instrument or voice.
Led by Israeli-born jazz vocalist Yardena Namerdi “Yardena y Son Ladino,” is Ladino-Afro Cuban Jazz, and represents a fusion of Sephardic Jewish and Middle Eastern music with Cuban rhythms. The fusion of these two traditions with so much common ancestry comes off as so natural as to sound startlingly inevitable. Both share important roots in 15th century Spain, where an already thousand-year-old mix of Moors, Jews, and Gypsies gave to Iberia the essence of habanera and flamenco forms.
In the then newly discovered Cuba this music was combined, and evolved with, African percussion for 500 more years, to become one of the most vital of all musical genres. With the expulsion of the “heretics,” also 500 years ago, the Jews of Spain, a land they called ‘Sepharad,’ took with them their Castilian language, now known as ‘Djudeo-Espanyol,’ or Ladino, a language frozen in time. In a long odyssey from Moorish North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East itself, and even the New World, colorful words and rhythmic variants were absorbed into songs handed down, mother-to-child, from antiquity.
ESTA is a multi-ethnic band with innovative compositions and imaginative arrangements - deeply rooted in Israel’s diverse traditions. Founded in 1979 by Shlomo Deshet and Ori Beanstock, Esta has created a distinctive new sound, incorporating Jewish, Balkan, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, African and Celtic genres into its own pan-global sound, propelled by Rock’s energy and Jazz’s musicianship.
Led by harmonica innovator Jason Rosenblatt, and named for the traditional fur hat worn by Chassidic Jews, Shtreiml blends elements of klezmer, gypsy music and jazz to create a vibrant sound that is at once Eastern European Folk Music and Down-Home Blues. Shtreiml’s debut album, Harmonica Galitzianer, nominated for a Montreal Independent Music Award for Best World Music Album 2003, showcases Rosenblatt’s unique approach to playing the 10-hole diatonic harmonica or “blues harp.”
“World Fusion Beat Scientists” Zohar are led by composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Erran Baron Cohen, whose credits also include of the popular Da Ali G and Borat movie sountracks. ZOHAR weave together the beats and textures of modern club culture with hareem, hip-hop, electronica, dub and future grooves. It is a deconstruction of past, present and future, spanning Jewish Cantors, Arab Muezzins, Byzantine chants, meets today’s modern jazz and experimental musicians. Their approach is resolutely experimental and uncompromising with an instinctive feel for lush cinematic arrangements and intelligent melodies. Their acclaimed debut, One.Three.Seven.m was produced by Miles Copeland’s Ark 21 label.
