The Haferflocken Swingers are known for crossing borders. This underground swing band from Berlin juggles musical categories deftly. Swinging rock and roll à la Louis Prima, the blues, calypso, and brass sounds can be heard in their music. These nimble circus artists shamelessly make us of surprising quotations that turn...
Hasidic New Wave, the premiere traditional-experimental Jewish Jazz ensemble, and the renowned Senegalese Sabar drum ensemble, Alioune Faye and Yakar Rhythms, are proud to unveil their new collaboration. Their first joint performance, at the New York Jazz Festival in 2000, was ecstatically received.
This exciting blend of...
With scrupulous attention to detail and the passion of explorers, this ensemble of seven virtuosos recovers musical traditions of Islam and Judaism from centuries of oblivion.
The HaYona Ensemble reconstructs the shared space of Jewish and Islamic sacred music. The ecstatic Arabian Sufi oriental Jewish musical worlds...
Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot was born in Israel in 1969. He attended the Jerusalem Emet Yeshiva in Zefat, and studied cantorial singing at the Israeli Cantorial Institute under the direction of such prominent cantors as Taube, Yitzchak Eshel, and Naftaly Herstik. He was cantor at the...
Fascinated by the immense wealth of the Hispanic and European musical repertoire dating back to 1800 and before Jordi Savall, Montserrat Figueras, Lorenzo Alpert and Hopkinson Smith founded the ensemble Hespèrion XX in 1974. The spirit characterised by Hespèrion up to the present day has been...
