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Yitzhak Yedid: Arabic Violin Bass Trio: Suite In Four Movements

Read "Arabic Violin Bass Trio: Suite In Four Movements" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Australia-based, Israeli composer and pianist Yitzhak Yedid continues his noble endeavor to integrate classical Arabic music, Arabic-influenced Jewish music and contemporary Western classical music, all performed with enough room for improvisation, into a new tradition. Yedid began to work on this inclusive, universal musical concept previously with the extended suite Oud Bass Piano Trio (Between the Lines, 2005). Arabic Violin Bass Trio: Suite In Four Movements does not focus on musical aspects alone, but attempts to reflect and contain the ...

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Yitzhak Yedid: Since My Soul Loved

Read "Since My Soul Loved" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Israeli, Australia-based composer and pianist Yitzhak Yedid dedicates his new composition Since My Soul Loved to the intertwined concept of love and happiness. “Regardless of all other events, as soon as we find love, we will find happiness," he is quoted in the liner notes. And Yedid is indeed an optimistic musician, who dedicates his art to crystallize a new musical language that encompasses different musical languages and neighboring cultures-- modern contemporary music, religious Jewish music, from Sephardic and Ashkenazi ...

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Yitzhak Yedid: Since My Soul Loved

Read "Since My Soul Loved" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Award-winning Israel-based composer/pianist Yitzhak Yedid's Since My Soul Loved casts notions of self-realization, all iterated via lucid imagery. He enables the psyche to conjure up a multitude of scenarios with these four, contemporary classical pieces, bearing resemblance to East and West song forms amid brief sojourns into avant-garde musical terrain.

Yedid outlines his multifarious composing processes and derivations within the album liners. He conveys a chamber feel, yet the differentiator pertains to the artist's morphing of western Jewish ...

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Yitzhak Yedid: Suite in Five Movements

Read "Suite in Five Movements" reviewed by Budd Kopman


With Oud Bass Piano Trio, composer and pianist Yitzhak Yedid continues on his journey of creating his own musical genre. Combining modern composition, ancient prayers and hymns and Middle Eastern folk music with improvisation, Yedid's music manages simultaneously to create strong images and emotions anchored conceptually in place and time, while also floating above it with purely abstract melodies. The album is structured like the earlier Myth of the Cave (Between the Lines, 2003) and Passions and ...

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Yitzhak Yedid: Suite In Five Movements

Read "Suite In Five Movements" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Award-winning Israeli composer/pianist Yitzhak Yedid is a paradox of sorts. His methodology consists of music without boundaries and he's difficult to pigeonhole, which is all good of course. Other than his numerous commissions for various arts-related formats, his overall muse combines an aesthetic that teeters between jazz, new music, avant-garde, Middle Eastern folk and much more.

Suite In Five Movements, released by the bleeding-edge German progressive Between the Lines label, signifies a unique convergence of various cultural elements ...

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Yitzhak Yedid: Oud Bass Piano Trio

Read "Yitzhak Yedid: Oud Bass Piano Trio" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Yitzhak Yedid Oud Bass Piano Trio Between the Lines 2008

Composer and pianist Yitzhak Yedid's new composition is an impressive attempt to weave current and traditional styles and influences into a cohesive contemporary work. In this five part suite, premiered at the Oud Festival in Jerusalem in November 2005 and recorded nine months later, there are references and retentions from a wide spectrum of sources, including Jewish and Christian prayers and benedictions, ...

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Yitzhak Yedid: Reflections Upon Six Images

Read "Reflections Upon Six Images" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Israeli composer and pianist Yitzhak Yedid's sixth release, his third for the German Between the Lines label, is his most assured and most improvised statement to date. Yedid replaced his cerebral, well-crafted, dense and intricate compositions this time with a looser road map that sketched themes and motifs, but left plenty of room for the members of his ensemble (all of whom have taken part in his past projects)--Canadian clarinetist François Houle, Israeli bassist Ora Boasson-Horev and violist Galia Hai--to ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Arabic Violin Bass...

Between the Lines
2013

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Arabic Violin Bass...

Between the Lines
2012

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Arabic Violin Bass...

Between the Lines
2012

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Through The Window...

Between the Lines
2010

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Through the Window of...

Between the Lines
2010

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Since My Soul Loved

Between the Lines
2009

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