Omer Avital - Arrival
ARTIST.....: Omer Avital
TITLE......: Arrival
LABEL......: Fresh Sound/World Jazz
URL........: http://www.omeravital.com
RIP DATE...: Sep-07-2007
STORE DATE.: Jul-03-2007
GENRE......: Jazz
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 91,5 MB
Track Listing:
01 - song for amos 06:28
02 - big time 03:47
03 - third world love story 04:35
04 - sea and sand 05:42
05 - arrival 04:31
06 - faith 05:40
07 - cypresses 07:52
08 - vincent 06:03
09 - song of thanks 08:23
10 - middle eastern sunset 02:06
11 - lilian in the big blue 08:13
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63:20 min
Release Notes:
"Extraordinary." - The New York Times
Inspired." - GQ "
"Awesome" -New York Post
Roaringly inventive."-Jazziz "
"Strikingly talented." - Entertainment Weekly
The standout, strumming Spanish guitar lines one minute, sitar-
like bent wails the next, with a Mingus-like thump... A ferocity
that not only invoked Bird but ranged through some Hendrix-like
noise and Bach's G major cello suite as well... Instantly
recognizable style."
- Village Voice
"A sustained burst of what's happening at the cutting edge"
- The Independent Eye
" Just excellent, creative jazz... wonderful"
- The Tracking
Angle
" Particularly interesting is the work of talented bassist-
composer Omer Avital's ensemble, which sometimes resonates with
the rabgy, open sound of Charles Mingus' small ensemble music."
-Los Angeles Times
" His idea of jazz includes old and new definitions of swing and
temperament, as if the stylistic and generational divisions never
existed.Ornette Coleman's country hymns get in there, as do Woody
Herman's close-harmony writing for saxophones, Charles Mingus'
tetchiness and ensemble friction, Lennie Tristano's rambling
counterpoint and the mesmerizing wail of Pharoah Sanders."
- The New York Times
"...The night clearly belonged to Omer Avital, who played the bass
the way a sushi chef attacks a fish- blindingly fast, with a
mesmerizing combination of aggression, muscle, deft touches and
showmanship. Avital is a hotly tipped comer whose solos stage an
extraordinary struggle between sending music into warp speed to
rearranging its deep structure and an irrepressible melodic thrust
he keeps close enough to the surface to be tantalizingly
perceptible. His virtuosity is obvious, but the melodic ease and
coherence that puts shape on his most abstracted, stretched- out
solos had the Senator crowd shaking their heads and laughing with
appreciation. - "Now", Toronto
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"Trained first as a classical guitarist, he plays chords all over
the neck and uses guitar techniques for strumming; the result is a
passing hint of flamenco or blues. He can be flrrt and jazz-
melodic in the style of Oscar Pettiford, then buzz around the
tonic like a devotional singer; he grew up in Tel Aviv, in a
Moroccan- Yemenite family, and the Arabic and Spanish comes
together with the blues in his music. Proper technique isn't all;
he punches and twangs the strings, knocking fresh slang out of the
bass. Outside Charles Mingus and the free-jazz bassist William
Parker, such dramatic violence on the instrument is hard to come
by."
-The New York
Times
"Strong and conceptually ambitious"- AMG Expert Review
"Serious music with serious intentions"- PopMatters Music Review
"Mr. Avital and his group are producing some of the most original
music being heard in New York"
-The New York
Times
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