Avital Raz - Strange Love Songs
ARTIST.....: Avital Raz
TITLE......: Strange Love Songs
LABEL......: N/A
URL........: http://www.myspace.com/avitalraz
RIP DATE...: Jun-16-2008
STORE DATE.: Feb-20-2008
GENRE......: Folk
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 31,8 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Migraine in Katmandu 07:20
02 - Weep 02:29
03 - Migraine in Jerusalem 03:51
04 - A Strange Love Song 07:58
05 - In You 03:19
06 - All Pains 03:47
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28:44 min
Release Notes:
http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=143162
http://cdbaby.com/cd/avitalraz
Avital RazÆs album is a guerrilla revolution inside a tiny antique
music box, a cabaret put on in the chamber of the heart.
At the age of eight, the restless and unruly child of religious
parents in Jerusalem, Avital joined a strict childrenÆs choir that
rehearsed six days a week and toured all over Europe.
At thirteen, she started taking private voice lessons and by
sixteen, she was performing solos with major Israeli orchestras.
She continued with rigorous training in voice and composition,
graduating from The Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem.
As a classical singer, she recorded for radio, and performed in
small opera productions, specializing in both early music and
avant-garde modern compositions.
After all this, to the surprise and dismay of her teachers and
supporters, She dropped her budding career in western classical
music altogether and moved to the Holy City of Varanasi (Benares)
in India, where she spent six years studying Dhrupad, the oldest
form of north-Indian classical music, with Master Ritwik Sanyal.
AvitalÆs time in India consisted of pre-dawn chanting, bathing in
the Ganges, Hindi and Sanskrit lessons ,many a variety of
dysentery, obsessions with ayurvedic cooking, painfully drawn out
international love sagas, moments of utter bliss, being too stoned
to move, two broken legs, a sprained ankle and a rabid dog attack,
involvement with various cults, touching feet of statues and of
actual people, being awfully alone and little by little, as her
inhibitions melted, finally finding the nerve to write her own
music.
This unique fusion of Indian and Western classical traditions,
took final form when Avital met Itzik Yona, a celebrated guitar
player and devoted sitar student, who encouraged her to return to
Israel and start recording with him.
Avital currently performs her own songs as well as Indian
Classical music and piyutim, traditional Jewish liturgical music.