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Jean Claude Jones was born in Sfax, Tunisia and moved to France as a
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Hareuveni
Gershon
Waiserfirer
Haggai
Fershtman
Harold
Rubin
Ido Bukelman
Ido
Govrin
JCJones
Jonathan
Albalak
Joseph
Sprinzak
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Jacoby
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Jean Claude Jones was born in Sfax, Tunisia and moved to France as a
young child. As a teen, he taught himself simultaneously to play lead and bass guitar. At the age of 17 he began working in professional pop and jazz bands. In 1978 he moved to the US to pursue formal music studies, graduating from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he majored in jazz guitar. He continued his studies at the Music Institute of Technology in Los Angeles. In 1983 he emigrated to Israel, where he became a key player on the newly developing jazz scene. Several years later he made a definitive switch from guitar to double bass, and became involved in free improvised music. In time, he added electronics and computer-manipulated sounds to his musical arsenal. In 2016 because of a serious illness he returned the guitar as his main instrument.The driving force behind his work is "finding my space."
JC Jones is an esteemed music educator, and served as chair of the Jazz Department at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance between 1996 and 2000. He has performed and recorded with many leading international and Israeli musicians, dancers, poets, and vocal artists, including Stan Getz, Red Rodney, and Dave Liebman. Since the 1990s he has appeared with John Zorn, Anthony Coleman, Ned Rothenberg, Joey Baron, Marc Ribot, Ikue Mori, Mike Patton, Damon Smith, Joelle Leandre, Slava Ganelin, Steve Horenstein, Albert Beger, Arkady Gotesman, Avishai Cohen, Ariel Shibolet, Harold Rubin, Victoria Hanna, Josef Sprinzak, Amos Hetz, Anat Shamgar , Felix Ruckert, Dieter Hautkamp, Julyen Hamilton, Mark Dresser, Barre Phillips, Bert Turetzky, Irina Kalina Goudeva.
In 2004 he founded his label Kadima Collective Recordings.
Some of JC's major projects include Deep Tones for Peace 2009 telematic performances, the Kadima Triptych Series (cds/dvds/texts featuring double-bass masters), Myelination (the myelin chemical sounds and improvised music), and The Temperamental Duo, a collaborative work on Lydian + Explorations with composer/reeds player Steve Horenstein.
Since 2016 he has been working with lap-style prepared and sometimes prepared spanish guitar, in multiple collaborations and recordings with several eminent musicians. Works includes Wild Guitar Musings 2016 solo guitar, Keep on Dancing, duos recordings with percussionists Haim Peskoff, Oren Fried Denis Fournier, and JC on guitar, Sick Puppies In Love duos with vocalist Anat Pick 2016, Drones 2017, La Sprezzatura Ensemble 2018, Give it your all - Wild Guitar Musings 2018.
The Kadima Distance Recordings series
Whatever it takes with drummer Denis Fournier, 2016. France Israel. Serendipity, with Raphael-St Remy,2017. France Israel Visions of Sound guitar duos with Raymond Boni, 2018. Israel France USA Dead Cool, 2019. Nucleous, each at home during the confinement time in Israel, 2020.
Contact:
Email: jeanclaude.kadima@gmail.com
kadimacollective.com
Home: +972-2-6251185
Mobile: +972-549-9345-419
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Jean Claude Jones
With Friends
KCR 01, 2004 |
J.C. Jones With
Friends Duos II
KCR 02, 2005 |
Harold Rubin & J.C. Jones
Muse & Music
KCR 03, 2005
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Gan Lev & Jean Claude Jones
Languages
KCR 05, 2005 |
Temperamental Trio
Raw and the Cooked
KCR 06, 2006 |
J.C. Jones
Hosting Myself
KCR 08, 2006
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Wight Night in
Tel Aviv
June 2006 -
KCR 11, 2007 |
Ariel Shibolet and Between the Strings
LIVE AT THE TEL AVIV MUSEUM
KCR 14, 2006 |
ReComp
February 2008 -
KCR 14
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Gunter Baby Sommer
Live in Jerusalem,
KCR 19, 2009 |
Mark Dresser, Irina-Kalina Goudeva, JC Jones,
Barre Phillips, Bert Turetzky.
Sonic Brotherhood
KCR 31, 2011 |
Featuring Steve Horenstein baritone sax,Yoni Silver
bass clarinet, Harold Rubin clarinet and voice, Ariel Shibolet
soprano sax, Jake Marmer poetry, JC Jones bass and vocalist Yael
Tai Myelination - JC Jones KCR 32, 2011
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JC Jones Solo Bass
KCR 36, 2012 |
Meira Asher,
JC Jones:
KCR 37, 2013 |
Esoteric Duos
Jones Kretzmer back
KCR 40, 2016 |
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Wild Strings Musings
Jean Claude (JC) Jones Lap-style classical guitar free improvisations
KCR 42, 2016 |
Whatever It Takes JC Jones guitar & Denis Fournier drums
KCR 43, 2016 |
Serendipity Jean Claude (JC) Jones lap-style spanish guitar PTs plug-ins bass banjo
Raphael Saint-Remy piano tpt haut-cuivre electronics
KCR 44, 2016 |
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Sick Puppies in Love
Anat Pick voice, objects
Jean Claude (JC) Jones lap-style spanish guitar, voice, sound processing
KCR 45, 2017 |
The Eb Lydian Augmented project
Steve Horenstein, baryton saxophone
JC Jones Bass
KCR 46, 2017 |
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Daniel Hoffman, and descendant of a long line of Bessarabian furriers,
was born and raised near Los Angeles. In June of 2005 he moved to Israel 
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Daniel Hoffman, and descendant of a long line of Bessarabian furriers,
was born and raised near Los Angeles. In June of 2005 he moved to Israel.
He started his violin studies at the age of seven, and continued his
studies in Western classical music until graduating from the Manhattan
School of Music in New York, whereupon he quickly turned his attentions
to Eastern European Jewish folk music and formed several klezmer bands
in San Francisco. In 1992, he co-founded Davka trio
(now a quartet) combining Ashkenazi Jewish music with jazz and Middle-Eastern
music. Davka has released five CDs of original
music, including four on the Tzadik label. He also founded the Klez-X (formerly
the SF Klezmer Experience) and has developed a reputation as one of
the foremost experts of the Yiddish violin style, recording and performing
with the top players in the field.
Hoffman has received numerous composition grants, including from Meet
The Composer and the NEA. He has written two new scores for the silent
films “The Golem” and “Jewish
Luck”. He is currently composing music for “David
in Shadow and Light,” a new musical (with librettist
Yehuda Hyman) based on the King David story. The musical will premiere
at Theatre J in Washington DC in May of 2008.
In Israel he performs with J.C. Jones and Nory Jacoby in Between
The Strings, a free music string trio, and in Trio
Carpion, an Ashkenazi-roots trio performing Yiddish
and Romanian vocal music and pre-war European klezmer.
Hoffman currently performs in the new Jerusalem Theater Company comedy “Are
You Happy Yet?” His latest releases are Davka
Live and a remix of the Klez-X Harbst disc, KLZXRMX.
Contact:
daniel@davkamusic.com
+972-54-6919039
www.davkamusic.com
www.triocarpion.com
www.klezx.com
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KCR 02, 2005 |
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Stephen Horenstein was born in 1948, in Boston, MA, and emigrated
to Israel in 1980. After graduating from Trinity College/Hartt School
of Music (BA), formal flute studies with Marcel Moyse, and the University
of Wisconsin (MA in Composition), Horenstein was appointed to the faculty
of Bennington College (Black Music Department, Dance, 1973-1980)
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Stephen Horenstein was born
in 1948, in Boston, MA, and emigrated to Israel in 1980. After graduating
from Trinity College/Hartt School of Music (BA), formal flute studies
with Marcel Moyse, and the University of Wisconsin (MA in Composition),
Horenstein was appointed to the faculty of Bennington College (Black
Music Department, Dance, 1973-1980). His first formative work as a creative
player was with musical innovator Bill Dixon, with whom he recorded and
performed extensively for over a decade (Festival D’Autumne, Verona
Festival; Vision Festival, recordings on Black Saint-Soul Note, etc.).
Upon arriving in Israel, Horenstein taught at the Jerusalem
Academy of Music and Dance (1981-86), Tel Aviv University (1982-1986),
after which he founded the Jerusalem Institute of Contemporary
Music (1987-present).
He has collaborated with many well-known artists, including
Isamu Noguchi, Steve Paxton, Israeli Hadani, Rena Schoenfeld,
Kibbutz Dance Company, Vertigo, Esti Kenan-Ofri, and virtuoso
percussionist, Jeffery Kowalsky. He has also been guest artist
and lecturer at Brandeis University; Middlebury Colege; SUNY,
Purchase; and Stanford University. Horenstein received his
PhD from Hebrew University, and published a work on perception
of time in music.
Stephen Horenstein’s works for ensemble, small orchestra,
soloist and electronics have been performed in festivals worldwide,
including: NY International Festival, Other Worlds, Milan;
Vienna Harp Festival; Media Mix, University of York; ICMF,
Hong Kong; Israel Festival; Helsinki Festival; Red Sea Festival,
and others. His recordings include: Collages (Black Saint Soul
Note) and Between the Silences (JICM Recordings).Recent experimental
collaborations are featured on Kadima Collective Records, with
J.C. Jones. His latest projects include a forthcoming 60th
birthday retrospective. Horenstein’s work uses documentary
sources, many of them from Jewish sound archives, as well a
new vision of the 21st century orchestra.
Contact:
horen52@netvision.net.il;
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Temperamental Trio
Raw and the Cooked
KCR 06, 2006 |
Wight Night in Tel Aviv
June 2006 -
KCR 11, 2007 |
ReComp
February 2008 -
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Steve Horenstein baritone sax,Yoni Silver bass clarinet,
Harold Rubin clarinet and voice, Ariel Shibolet soprano
sax, Jake Marmer poetry, JC Jones bass and vocalist Yael
Tai
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Nori Jacoby studied music and composition at the Israel Arts and Science
Academy in Jerusalem with Prof. Andre Hadju and Dr. Michael Wolpe
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Nori Jacoby studied music and composition at the Israel Arts and Science
Academy in Jerusalem with Prof. Andre Hadju and Dr. Michael Wolpe.
His chamber and orchestral music include “Jerusalem
Dream” (2005), “Symphonic
Concerto” (2003), “Lullaby" (2002), “Prayer” (1998),
and “Kaprizma” (1999), which
were broadcast by Israeli Radio. Jacoby has created music for the
Israeli Contemporary String Quartet and the rock band The Revenge
of The Tractor (for the Spring Festival, 2004). Since the Israel
Festival in 2004, Nori has been performing in “Writing From
Within,” an evening based on ancient Chassidic music.
In the last few years, Jacoby has been collaborating with the Israeli
singer Victoria Hanna. In 2003 Nori has accompanied Hanna in the opening
of The New Delhi Sacred Music Festival in the presence of His Holiness
the Dalai Lama.
Jacoby played his compositions and arrangements in distinguished festivals
around the world, including the Singapore Art Festival (2006); the
Chicago World Music Festival (2005); the Melbourne Festival (2005);
the London Jewish Culture Festival (Place Theater 1999); the Krakow
Dance Festival (2001); the Israel Festival (2003, 2004).
Jacoby has played in ensembles of improvised music, including Between
the Strings with JC Jones and Daniel Hoffman, and Mysteria,
an ethnic acoustic and electronic contemporary ensemble. At the
Israeli Festival (2003) Nori prompted the Israeli premiere of John
Zorn’s Cobra
Contact:
nori@netvision.net.il
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J.C. Jones With
Friends Duos II
KCR 02, 2005 |
ReComp
February 2008 -
KCR 14
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KCR 28, 2010 |
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Jacoby / Kretzmer/ Fershtman
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KCR 21, 2010 |
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Ariel was born in 1997 in Jerusalem. He began formal piano lessons
just before his 5th birthday with Lea Agmon. Since then he has performed
repeatedly at concerts at the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music and at
various youth concerts, alone and with orchestra or string ensemble
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Ariel was born in 1997 in Jerusalem. He began formal piano lessons
just before his 5th birthday with Lea Agmon. Since then he has performed
repeatedly at concerts at the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music and at
various youth concerts, alone and with orchestra or string ensemble.
He also studies violin and composition.
At age seven Ariel discovered jazz. After exploring the genre alone
for half a year he started to study with J.C. Jones and played his
first jazz session at a Kadima salon on his 8th birthday. Since then
he has performed with his teacher at jazz clubs and festivals around
Jerusalem. On his 9th birthday Kadima Collective Recordings released
his first disc, 31 Bars, featuring mostly his own compositions.
In addition to classical and jazz piano, Ariel is also experimenting
with guitar, double bass, drums, and electronic music. His main interest
lies in combining classical forms of jazz with avant-garde and free
improvisational techniques.
Contact:
ariel@arielpiano.com
+972-2-6414481
www.arielpiano.com
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Ariel
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KCR 07
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Ariel
Origami
KCR 12 |
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February 2008 -
KCR 14
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Yuval Mesner was born in 1965 in Oslo, Norway. He emigrated to Israel
in1970. Mesner plays the cello since the age of eight, and has studied
at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and at the Rimon School of Jazz and
Contemporary Music in Ramat Hasharon
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Yuval Mesner was born in 1965 in Oslo, Norway. He emigrated to Israel
in1970. Mesner plays the cello since the age of eight, and has studied
at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and at the Rimon School of Jazz and
Contemporary Music in Ramat Hasharon.
Since his early twenties Mesner plays the cello in various styles,
including rock, jazz, world music, flamenco, fado, and others, and
has recorded and performed with many popular Israeli singers such as
Esther Ofarim, Korin Alal, Dana Berger, and Ramy Kleinstein. He has
also performed improvisational music with musicians such as Harold
Rubin, Steve Horenstein, and JC Jones. His first band was Tattoo,
an alternative rock band that released a highly acclaimed disc in 1988.
In 1990 he founded the rock-pop band Balagan,
which released a popular disc, with Mesner writing and arranging the
songs and producing the disc.
Between 1992 and 1995 he lived in Amsterdam, Holland, where he played
with a Portugese fado band, and served as composer and musical manager
of the theatre group Azart - The Ship of Fools (www.azart.org).
Since 1996 he has been writing music for numerous theater plays in
Israel, including Har Lo Zaz and Tamara for
Habima National Theatre, Apples from the Desert and Death
Reason for Beit Lessin Theatre, and Boris
Shpilman and Last Tree of Jerusalem for
the Haifa Theatre.
Mesner won prizes for his compositions at the 1998 Acco Theatre Festival
and the 2006 Haifa Festival for Children.
In 2004 Mesner released the Mesner Quartet disc
with the singers Eran Tzur and Alona Daniel, for which he arranged
rock songs for a string quartet.
Since 1986 Mesner has bee a member of the influential Israeli world-music East-West
Ensemble, which released four discs and toured Europe,
the United States, Hong Kong and Japan. Mesner and JC Jones are
currently recording a new disc of improvised music for cello and
bass.
Contact:
thephaze@netvision.net.il
+972-3-5242198
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With Friends
KCR 01, 2004 |
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Josef Sprinzak was born in Jerusalem in 1962. He is a performance
and interdisciplinary artist living in Tel-Aviv. He has studied Computer
Science and Visual Theater in Israel, and voice in the Roy Hart Artistic
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Josef Sprinzak was born in Jerusalem in 1962. He is a performance and interdisciplinary
artist living in Tel-Aviv. He has studied Computer Science and Visual Theater
in Israel, and voice in the Roy Hart Artistic Center in France. Sprinzak teaches
voice and performance and is conducting PhD research on Text-Sound Art.
Sprinzak is among the first sound poets in Israel. He has been performing
in various musical performance art, poetry, and theater events in Israel,
Europe, and South Korea. He collaborates with Israeli musicians of the
first rank in the field of contemporary music, such as JC Jones, Haggai
Fershtman, Ariel Shibolet, and Ilan Green.
His artistic language is based on breaking words into syllables, using
breathing techniques, and extreme vocal production. These techniques
are used to interpret text in a way that enhances the physical and spatial
aspects of the text, trying to reach the sources of language and making
the vocal rendering an experience of total theater.
Among his works are: Tapeman (1994), maggie
and milly and molly and may (1997), Berlin Diaries (2001), The
World is Round (2002), The Story
of Ferdinand (2003), Mikraot Israel (with Adva Drori, 2005), Delete
Alef to Shutdown (2006). H”e has won Citations of Excellence at the
Phenomena International Performance Festival in Jerusalem for Tapeman (1996) and at the Acco Festival of Alternative Theater for The
World is Round (2002).
Contact :
josefspr@hotmail.com
+972-3-5160911
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J.C. Jones With
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KCR 02, 2005 |
Joseph Sprinzak/ Jean Claude Jones
The World is Round: Sound Text Composition based on Story by Gertrude Stein
KCR04, 2005
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Gershon Waiserfirer was born in 1972 in Tajikistan. In 1980 his family emigrated
to Israel. His passion for music emerged at the age of 11, when he started
playing the piano, the baritone horn, later on the trombone at the Conservatory
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Gershon Waiserfirer was born in 1972 in Tajikistan. In 1980 his family emigrated
to Israel. His passion for music emerged at the age of 11, when he started
playing the piano, the baritone horn, and later on the trombone at the Conservatory
in Tel-Aviv.
After traditional studies at the Tel-Aviv Concervatory, the Center of
Music and Dance from the East in Jerusalem, and the Rimon School of Jazz
and Contemporary Music, he continued his musical development mostly by
studying on his own. He also studied acting at Beit Tsvi, one of the
leading theater schools in Israel.
Together with theater studies, he began exploring different string instruments,
including the guitar, the oud, and the jumbush. He is currently one of
the most sought-after oud players in Israel. Owing to his virtuoso playing
on a variety of instruments, he is a regular member of a large number
of successful musical groups in Israel.
Waiserfirer has participated in many festivals in Israel as well as
in New York, San-Francisco, Los Angeles, Rochester, Chicago, Boulder,
Berlin,
Barcelona, Madrid, and the Netherlands.
Contact:
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Ido Govrin is a sound artist who investigates the realms of aesthetics
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Ido Govrin is a sound artist who investigates the realms of aesthetics
and plastic art through sound beings.
His work includes film music, sound for mixed media installations and computer
generated pieces.
He is co-running the experimental record label, Interval Recordings, as
well as being half of Duprass.
Contact:
www.interval-recordings.com
www.duprass.com
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Albert Beger was born in Turkey in 1959 and immigrated to Israel as a young
child. He began classical studies with Uri Taplitz, the first flute player
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Albert Beger was born in Turkey in 1959 and immigrated to Israel as a young
child. He began classical studies with Uri Taplitz, the first flute player
of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Soon after he started showing an interest
in Jazz. In 1985 Beger began studies at Rimon, an Israeli school of contemporary
music, and started playing the tenor saxophone (which became his main instrument)
and the soprano saxophone.
In 1988 he received a tuition grant from the Berklee College in Boston,
where he took advanced courses in composition and studied saxophone with
the legendary Joe Viola.
Since 1995 he released seven albums, collaborating with top musicians
in Israel and abroad, including Harold Rubin, JC Jones, Asaf Sirkis, Gabriel
Meyer, John Bostock, Haggai Fershtman, Roman Kuntzman, Hammid Drake,
William
Parker, and the composer Eric Shapira. Since 1991 he has been living
in Moshav Dor on the Mediterranean cost. His music, which incorporates classical
and
ethnic traditions, is strongly influenced by his environment.
Contact:
albertbeger@bezeqint.net
www.albertbeger.com
Home: +972-4-6397350
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With Friends
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Wight Night in
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Harold Rubin was born in South Africa on Friday 13th, May 1932. He studied
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Harold Rubin was born in South Africa on Friday 13th, May 1932. He studied
classical clarinet from the age of 16, although his main interest was in jazz. At age 18 he started playing at the Skyline night club In Johanesburg
with Dulcy Ryder, and formed his quartette, performing the music of Duke Ellington,
Count Basie, and Benny Goodman. They also performed at the Odin Cinema in
the ghetto Sophiatown, before it was bulldozed and the citizens moved to Sowetto.
Rubin emigrated to Israel in 1963, after being tried for blasphemy for an art
work named "My Jesus." He was interested in original music and had difficulty finding musicians to
collaborate with, so he performed very little and stopped playing for
12 years. At the end of 1979 he started playing again and in 1985 formed
Zaviot with Mark Smulian, Reuven Hoch, and Tommy Belman, playing original
music. The group achieved success in Israel and Europe. In 1989 he became
interested in total improvised music and has been involved in the process
of developing the music wherever it takes him. He performs with small
groups and is a member of the Tel Aviv Art Ensemble.
He has performed in festivals in Sibiu, Rumania, Berlin and Leverkusen
Germany and in Copenhagen. In 2000 he performed at the Brooklyn Music
Academy with Daniel Sarid and in
Opole festival Poland, the "Tinklai" festival
Lithuania with Slava Ganelin and Arkady Gutesman 2007 at clubs in New
York with Bob Meyer and Ed Schuller. He has released 11 albums.
Recent c.d's. In 2006 "A Monomusical
Suite for Three Manic Musicians" with Maya Dunietz and Yoni Silver. Jazzis Records released "Trion" featuring Shmil Frankel, Ram Gabay, and Harold Rubin in April 2007.
He performs with various musicians in Israel and is currently working
with Mark Smulian on new music.
Contact:
hazrubin@gmail.com
Home: +972 3 546 3756
Mobile: +0545 260296
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Harold Rubin & J.C. Jones
Muse & Music
KCR 03, 2005 |
Harold Rubin - One Voice: clarinet
KCR 10, 2007 |
ReComp
February 2008 -
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Featuring Steve Horenstein
baritone sax,Yoni Silver bass clarinet, Harold Rubin clarinet and
voice, Ariel Shibolet soprano sax, Jake Marmer poetry, JC Jones bass
and vocalist Yael Tai
Myelination - JC Jones
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Ariel Shibolet Born in1972 in Israel.
Played the cello and had classical education in his youth.
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Ariel Shibolet Born in1972 in Israel
Played the cello and had classical education in his youth. Started playing
the saxophone in 1992. Member of the "Kadima
Collective" for improvised music and the "Tel-Aviv Art Ensemble". Organizer and art director of the monthly Tel Aviv Meetings at Hagada.
Performs regularly in Israel, the United States and Europe.
His CDs recordings and concerts are remarkably reviewed and his solo concert
at the " Berlin
Total Music Meeting" in 2007 was acclaimed by the German press as the "highlight of the festival", and selected best concert of the year.
Festivals
2007 Berlin Total Music meeting, 2010 Moers festival, Tel Aviv Jazz Festival,
Hagada festival for improvised music White night festival, the Avant Garde
festival at Levontin 7.
Recordings:
Metal tube & consciousness – Leo records
Live at the tel aviv museum - Kadima Collective 14
Untitled (1959) – Kadima Collective 09
Live at the total music meeting - The Cy Twombly trilogy / Kadima 27
Scenes from an ideal marriage – The Cy Twombly trilogy / Kadima 28
Happiness for things unseen – The Cy Twombly trilogy / Kadima Collective
29
Yclept – Balance Point Acoustics
Jean Claude Jones with friends – vol.1 – Kadima Collective 01
Joelle Leandre, live in israel – Kadima Collective 17
White night festival 2006 – Kadima Collective 10
The Tel Aviv Art Ensemble vol 1, 2
Performed with:
Damon Smith, Joelle Leandre , Mark Dresser, John Butcher, Eddie Prevost,
Birgit Ulher, Martin Blume, Phil Waxmann, Marcio Mattos, Wolfgang Fuchs
, Sophie Agnel, Steve Noble, Chris Cutler, Scott R.Looney, Jen Baker, Aurora
Josephson, Jerome Bryerton, Dror Frauler, Klaus Janek, Chad Taylor, Martin
Klapper, Peter Friss Nielsen, Christer Irgens-Moller, John Dikeman, Reut
Regev, Yigal Phoni, Olga Magieres, Niels Winter, Mark O'Leary.
JC Jones, Harold Rubin, Yoram Lachish, Nori Jacoby, Daniel Hofman, Haggai
Fershtman, Shmil Frenkel, Rami Gabai, Albert Beger, Yoni Silver, Ronny Brener,
Michel Mayer, Adi Snir, Offer Bymel, Eran Zachs, Daniel Sarid, Dana Waxman,
Yonatan Avishay, Eitan Radushinski, Shlomi Shaban, Yuval Mesner, Adi Hershko,
Anat Pick, Karni Postel, Maya Dunitz, Steve Horenstein, Yiftach Kadan...
Contact:
ariel_shibolet@hotmail.com
arielshibolet.com
Tel- 972-3-6203488
Balfur st’ 37, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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Jean Claude Jones
With Friends
KCR 01, 2004 |
Shibolet/Josephson/
Baker/Looney/Smith
Untitled (1959)
KCR 09, 2007 |
Wight Night in
Tel Aviv
June 2006 -
KCR 11, 2007
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Ariel Shibolet and Between the Strings LIVE AT THE TEL
AVIV MUSEUM
KCR 14, 2006 |
Ariel Shibolet solo soprano sax
KCR 27, 2010 |
Shibolet soprano sax / Jacoby viola
KCR 28, 2010 |
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KCR 29, 2010 |
Featuring Steve Horenstein baritone sax,Yoni Silver bass clarinet, Harold Rubin
clarinet and voice, Ariel Shibolet soprano sax, Jake Marmer poetry,
JC Jones bass and vocalist Yael Tai
Myelination - JC Jones
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Performer, improviser, and composer, Yoram Lachish combines the discipline
of a classical foundation with improvising skills. In addition to the oboe
and the English horn, Yoram plays a variety of ethnic wind instruments
such as the Shehnai (Indian oboe) and Zurna (Turkish oboe), sometimes equipped
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Performer, improviser, and composer, Yoram Lachish combines the discipline of a classical foundation with improvising skills. In addition to the oboe and the English horn, Yoram plays a variety of ethnic wind instruments such as the Shehnai (Indian oboe) and Zurna (Turkish oboe), sometimes equipped with electronic facilities.
His experience as a classical player includes, among others, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra with whom he appeared as soloist, the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra, and other classical ensembles, with whom he has performed in Germany’s Mitte Europa International festival, in Switzerland’s Verbier Festival, as well as in Italy, Spain, France, Japan, China, and Hong-Kong.
Yoram's involvement with the jazz, rock,, and world music scene in Israel has led to the establishment of Common Bond, an eight-piece band performing a mixture of ethnic world jazz. Established in 1999, the Common Bond has performed around Israel has appeared in several international music festivals. Yoram performed and recorded with leading Israeli rock and pop Israeli artists such as Mind Church and Mika Karni. In 2004 Yoram was included in the European Jazz Orchestra, Swinging Europe, with whom he toured Europe and Brazil.
In the last years, Yoram has become involved in Tel-Aviv's experimental music scene. He is a member of the Tel-Aviv Art Ensemble, a large instrumental ensemble dedicated to performing new improvised music. Yoram also collaborates with artists in a variety of fields, including dancers, video artists, and electronic musicians.
Contact:
yoram@jazzoboe.com
www.jazzoboe.com
www.myspace.com/yoramlachish 
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Yonatan Kretzmer was born in Jerusalem in 1982. He began playing the saxophone
at age 14.
Yonatan studied in Israel with Erez Barnoi and Stephen Horenstein  |
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Yoni Kretzmer was born in Jerusalem in 1982.
He began playing the saxophone at age 14.
Yoni studied in Israel with Erez Barnoi and Stephen Horenstein. He subsequently
moved to Paris where he studies at the American School of Modern Music with Peter
Giron and Rick Margitza and performed in various clubs.
Upon his return to Israel, Yoni led many groups (Quartet, Zork, Far From Home
a.o.) and has played with local and visiting artists such as: Albert Beger, Assif
Tsahar, Harold Rubin. Ido Bukel man, Daniel Sarid, Evan Parker, Yuval Mesner,
Slava Ganelin, Vladimir Volkov, Mike Pride, Jason Ajemian, a.o.
Yoni has released 4 albums under has performed in Israels major festivals and
has studied in NY with esteemed saxophonist Ellery Eskelin.
Yoni's main interests are synthesizing free improvised music and written chamber
music. The latter led him to found the New Dilemma chamber group comprised of
strings, tenor saxophone, and drums. The first concert of New Dilemma was described
by one of Israel's foremost jazz critic's as the "borderline
between modern classical music, composed until the last note, and the highly
emotional free jazz of Kretzmer."
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Gunter Baby Sommer
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KCR 19, 2009 |
Jacoby / Kretzmer/ Fershtman
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KCR 21, 2010 |
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Haggai Fershtman was born in 1972 in Israel. In 1990 he graduated from the
Thelma Yalin school for fine arts. In 1987 he studied drums with David Rich.
Between 1997 and 2000 he studied African drumming from Mali and Senegal with
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Haggai Fershtman was born in 1972 in Israel. In 1990 he graduated from the
Thelma Yalin school for fine arts. In 1987 he studied drums with David Rich.
Between 1997 and 2000 he studied African drumming from Mali and Senegal with
Issac Nahum and master drummer Mamadie Keita.
In 2002 Haggai obtained a BA in Philosophy and Musicology from Tel Aviv
University. Between 2002 and 2005 he studied Philosophy at the Cohn Institute
for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at the Tel Aviv University.
Between 2003 and 2005 Haggai taught drums to children and adults at the
Adam and Environment school in Gaash and at the Krinitzy school for music
In Ramat Gan.
Between 1997 and 2004 he worked with the Livnat Brothers, connecting Jewish
Hebrew heritage with jazz.
He performed in schools for several years under the sponsorship of the
Israel Ministry of Culture.
Haggai made numerous recordings and has toured extensive since the year
2000, with Harold Rubin, Jean Claude Jones, The Midnight Peacocks, Sharon
Kantor Elliot, Ariel Shibolet, Albert Beger, The Family Butchers, Ex Lion
Tamer, and Katamine.
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Jacoby / Kretzmer/ Fershtman
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KCR 21, 2010 |
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Contact:
haggaife@yahoo.com
Phone +972-052-335-1045 
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Anat Pick (Israel, 1955)
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Anat Pick (Israel, 1955)
Creator in the field of Sound Poetry and performance art. Began her career
as a musician, eventually branching out to develop a repertoire of innovative
language - oriented performance, based on a phonetic mixture of Eastern
and Western languages. Anat has performed in major interdisciplinary
events, poetry and contemporary music festivals across Israel, Europe and
US. Her
collaborations with other musicians have involved a variety of forms,
including spoken word and free-improvisation. Pick maintains an intense
interest in
the research and performance of Dada and Futurist poetry.
Contact:
anat_pick@yahoo.com
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Eyal Hareuveni, journalist and music critic is an important member of the
collective. A non-professional musician, his knowledge of the free music scene
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Eyal Hareuveni, journalist and music critic is an important member of
the collective. A non-professional musician, his knowledge of the free
music scene is an invaluable resource for others. He supports, promotes
and writes about jazz and free improvisational music here and abroad.
He also helps to coordinate special events and tours with international
artists visiting Israel.
Currently living in West Jerusalem but dreaming of living near the Bla
club in Oslo, or the Shinjuku Pit-Inn club in Tokyo. I'm a feline lover
and loves to climb the hills of Jerusalem with his bike. A refusnik and
peace activist. Working as a journalist for different Israeli newspapers
since 1990 and now as a researcher and spokesman for human-rights and
development NGO's. In 2003 I co-produced John Zorn's game-piece Cobra
for the Israel Festival (though, Zorn cancelled his coming 48 hours before
the scheduled concert), and now involved in the activity of the Jerusalem
free-improv label Kadima Collective and took part in producing the first
tour in Israel of French bass player Joelle Leandre in Nov. 2007. 
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Born in 1984. At age 8 started his piano studies with Sarah Talman at the
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Born in 1984. At age 8 started his piano studies with Sarah Talman at the
Rubin Conservatory in Haifa.
At age 14 started his drum studies.
In 2008 graduated from the Academy of Music and Dance Jerusalem in the
field of composition.
Currently studying piano with Miriam Gorbonos at the Donia-Weizman Conservatory
in Haifa.
Currently studying drums with Yvgeni Maistrovski.
In 2005 established a workshop based music school with Haifa guitarist
Ronen Kasperski.
Has played in numerous groups and bands in different styles from Heavy
Rock, Metal, Punk, Funk, Fusion, Jazz, Free-Jazz Avant-garde to Improvised
Music.
Currently a member of the Heavy Rock band 'Shpeck', and the Improvised
Music groups 'Tanaka' and '24 Limbs'.
Has performed with: Ariel Shibolet, Yoram Lachish, Yoni Silver, Shmil Frenkel,
Harold Rubin, Jean-Claude Jones, Assif Tsahar, Stephen Horenstein, Adi Snir,
Michel Mayer, Roni Brenner, Daniel Davidovsky, Daniel Sarid, Damon Smith (USA),
Birgit Ulher (Germany), John Butcher (UK), Eddie Prevost (UK), Joseph Sprinzak,
Eran Sachs, Tom Tlalim (Holland), Nori Yaakovi, Wolfgang Fuchs (Germany),
Haggai Fershtman,
Has recorded with: Damon, Smith (USA), Birgit Ulher (Germany), Ariel Shibolet,
Adi Snir, Roni Brenner, Michel Mayer.
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Born in 1987. At age 4.5 started his piano studies. At age 8 played the violin for 2 years, while studying guitar and recorder.
During his stay in the U.S. at age 13 discovered the saxophone and studied with Joe Halajian  |
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Born in 1987. At age 4.5 started his piano studies. At age 8 played the violin
for 2 years, while studying guitar and recorder. During his stay in the U.S.
at age 13 discovered the saxophone and studied with Joe Halajian. Upon his
return to Israel studied 4 years in the Carmiel Consevatory with Albert Beger
(3 years) and Dror Bar Israel (1 year), while experimenting with various woodwinds
and the piano. During these years participated in workshops and master-classes
at Matan summer school and took part in the Shai Cohen Jazz Orchestra.
At age 17 won a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music, Boston,
Massachusetts.
Finished his music studies with honors in the Misgav High School.
After finishing high school, studied 1 year in the Rimon School of Jazz
and Contemporary Music in Ramat Hasharon, Israel.
Has played and performed with: Damon Smith (USA), Birgit Ulher (Germany),
John Butcher (UK), Eddie Prevost (UK), Ariel Shibolet, Yoni Silver, Shmil
Frenkel, Harold Rubin, Michel Mayer, Roni Brenner, Ofer Bymel.
Has recorded with: Damon Smith (USA), Birgit Ulher (Germany),
Ariel Shibolet, Ofer Bymel, Roni Brenner, Michel Mayer.
Adi is an active artist who has widely performed in the fields of Jazz,
Free-Jazz and Improvised Music, and is currently a member of the Improvised
Music group 'Tanaka'.
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KCR 15, 2008 |
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adisaxophone@gmail.com
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Born in 1986. At age 12 started her guitar studies with Michel Mayer. Finished
her music studies with honors in the WIZO Arts High School in Haifa, Israel  |
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Born in 1986. At age 12 started her guitar studies with Michel Mayer. Finished her music studies with honors in the WIZO Arts High School in Haifa, Israel.
Currently studying composition with Mr. Yuval Shaked.
In 2006 Brenner received a composition scholarship from the America Israel Cultural Foundation.
Currently studies music and theatre at the Haifa University.
Current projects include a duo with pianist Maya Dunietz, and Improvised Music
groups 'Tanaka' and '24 Limbs'. Since September 2006 the group Tanaka is responsible
for arranging workshops and concerts at the "Pyramida – Center For Contemporary Art" in Haifa, Israel. Roni is also one of organizers of The Tel Aviv Meetings which are encounters of Improvised Music musicians, that are held on the last Friday of every month at Hagada Hasmalit in Tel Aviv.
Has performed with: Ariel Shibolet, Yoram Lachish, Yoni Silver, Shmil Frenkel,
Jean-Claude Jones, Maya Dunietz, Adi Snir, Michel Mayer, Daniel Davidovsky,
Damon Smith (USA), Birgit Ulher (Germany), John Butcher (UK), Eddie Prevost
(UK), Tom Tlalim (Holland), Nori Yaakovi, Wolfgang Fuchs (Germany).
Has recorded
with: Damon Smith (USA), Birgit Ulher (Germany), Ariel Shibolet, Adi
Snir, Michel Mayer, Ofer Bymel.
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KCR 15, 2008 |
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Born in 1964.
In 1982 started studying guitar. Among his teachers were Haim Asulin, Amos
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Born in 1964.
In 1982 started studying guitar. Among his teachers were Haim Asulin, Amos
Aber-Adani and Yossi Levi.
In '89 studied at the Rimon School of Music.
In '93 studied at the CIM School for Jazz and Contemporary music in Paris,
with Pierre Cullaz.
In recent years has studied composition with Dr. Yigal Mirtenbaum and Prof'
Oded Zehavi, and currently studying with Mr. Yuval Shaked.
Michel is an active artist and teacher who has widely performed in the
fields of Jazz, Free-Jazz and Improvised Music, and is currently a member
of the Improvised Music groups Tanaka and 24 Limbs.
Since September 2006 the group Tanaka is responsible for arranging workshops
and concerts at the "Pyramida – Center For Contemporary Art" in
Haifa, Israel. Michel is also one of the organizers of The Tel Aviv Meetings
which are encounters of Improvised Music musicians, that are held on the last
Friday of every month at Hagada Hasmalit in Tel Aviv.
Has performed with: Ariel Shibolet, Yoram Lachish, Yoni Silver, Shmil
Frenkel, Harold Rubin, Jean-Claude Jones, Adi Snir, Roni Brenner,
Daniel Davidovsky,
Damon Smith (USA), Birgit Ulher (Germany), John Butcher (UK), Eddie
Prevost (UK), Joseph Sprinzak, Eran Sachs, Tom Tlalim (Holland),
Nori Yaakovi,
Wolfgang Fuchs (Germany), Haggai Fershtman.
Has recorded with: Damon Smith (USA), Birgit Ulher (Germany), Ariel
Shibolet, Adi Snir, Roni Brenner, Ofer Bymel.
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Jonathan Albalak was born in 1983. He is a graduate of the Rubin academy
of music where he studied composition with Slava Ganelin and guitar with
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He composed over 25 scores for film, dance, theater, and T.V and often collaborates
with filmmakers from the animation department in Bezalel art academy. Jonathan
has won many prizes, mostly in the fields of jazz improvisation and composition
for dance and animation.
As a guitarist, Jonathan is on a constant hunt for the perfect blend between
different musical languages, styles and sounds and is involved in many different
projects: leading his band Monstep, an electronic experimental fusion quintet,
for which he composes most of the material. He also formed Migdalego – an
original modern jazz group, and Kalapa – an electronic IDM duo. As a sideman
he takes part in many jazz and experimental groups, as well as mainstream rock
productions.
Jonathan has collaborated with other artists, groups and organizations, such
as the Revolution Orchestra (as composer and arranger), the Jerusalem Kamerata
Orchestra (as soloist), singer Matisyahu, singer Marina Maximillian Blumin, saxophonist
Daniel Zamir, double-bass player and composer Omer Avital, trumpet player Avishai
Cohen, producer and trombonist Avi Lebovich, rock artist Assaf Amdursky, Musica
Nova Group, bass player/laptopist Jean Claude Jones, the Haifa Septet, dance
theater group "Pyromania" and many others.
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Gunter Baby Sommer
Live in Jerusalem,
KCR 19, 2009 |
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Born in 1981, lives in Jerusalem, Israel.
He began playing the guitar at age 12.
Ido plays in a variety of highly creative musical projects as a leader
and as a sideman: Ido Bukelman Trio, Albert Beger Electroacoustic Band,
Beger\ Bymel\Bukelman trio, EFT (Electric-free-trio), Rats Quartet, Yoni
Kretzmer Quintet ("Far from home "), Solo works and more
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Born in 1981, lives in Jerusalem, Israel.
He began playing the guitar at age 12.
Ido plays in a variety of highly creative musical projects as a leader
and as a sideman: Ido Bukelman Trio, Albert Beger Electroacoustic Band, Beger\
Bymel\Bukelman trio, EFT (Electric-free-trio), Rats Quartet, Yoni Kretzmer
Quintet ("Far
from home"), Solo works and more.
Ido Bukelman’s first CD “City Tail” was recorded as a trio, and released
2009. Subsequently, Ido toured in Russia (March 2009) and Turkey in the
framework of the “Ankara International Jazz Festival” (February 2010).
The CD “Cracked Song” features the trio with the addition of cellist
and composer Yuval Mesner.
Ido has recently been focusing on solo (acoustic guitar) playing, and is
currently exploring the use of refined extended techniques and sounds.
Recordings:
Rats Ouartet - Afternoon High
Tal Gur Quartet - Air Portrait
Ido Bukelman Trio - City Tail
Albert Beger Electro-acoustic Band - Peacemaker
Daniel Davidovsky \Ofer Bymel \Ido Bukelman - EFT
Ido Bukelman Quartet (w\ Yuval Mesner) - Cracked Song
Ido Bukelman - Solo
Performed with: Yoni Kretzmer, Ofer Bymel, Yuval Mesner, Anat Fort, Shmil
Frenkel, Yoav Zohar, Ido Govrin, Albert Beger, Harold Rubin, Airto Moreira,
Alexander Frangenheim, Daniel Davidovsky
idobukelman.com
eftmusic.bandcamp.com/
myspace.com/idobukelman
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The Door Acoustic
Guitar Solo Works
KCR 33, 2011 |
The Drought Bell
Acoustic Guitar Banjo Solo Works
KCR 41, 2015 |
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