Yinon Muallem - The Way It Is
ARTIST.....: Yinon Muallem
TITLE......: The Way It Is
LABEL......: Kaf Muzik
URL........: www.myspace.com/yinonmuallem
RIP DATE...: Jun-05-2008
STORE DATE.: Jun-05-2008
GENRE......: Ethnic
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 64,4 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Hava 'Nargila' 03:37
02 - Galbak Zachar Jalmood 06:21
03 - Minor Variations 05:10
04 - Deep Inside a Broken Violin 08:01
05 - The Way It Is 06:52
06 - Istanbul's Sunset 06:07
07 - Nikriz Sirto 04:52
08 - Selam From India 08:49
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49:49 min
Release Notes:
Through his music, Yinon Muallem uniquely combines his abilities
as a composer along with his rich experience as a percussionist.
He creates music which distinctively combines rhythms and melodies
from an array of musical genres. Yinon was born in Israel in 1968
to parents of Iraqi origin. He began his musical career playing
latin percussion but was drawn to Middle Eastern music - going
back to his roots. Through his career he has developed his own
unique style, playing Middle Eastern percussion instruments such
as the darbuka, the def, the bendir, the Iranian zarb, the kanjira
and the gatham (the south Indian tamborine). In 1998 he began
playing the oud and later went to Istanbul to study with Yurdal
Tokcan - one of Turkey's foremost oud players. Later, Yinon joined
Istanbul Sazendeleri, a Turkish instrumental group which is made
up of some of the leading virtuosos of Turkish music. Yinon has
performed with Ross Daly (Greece), Yair Dalal (Israel), Omer Faruk
Tekbilek (Turkey, USA), Alim Gasimov (Azerbaijan), Piris Eliyahu
(Israel), Eyal Sela (Israel), Sam Rozbahan (Iran), Zhubin Kalhor
(Iran), Muhammed Alnuma (Iraq) and Sheldon Sands (US). Yinon's
music is not limited to one specific style. This can be seen
through his collaberations with such artists as the accomplished
Turkish classical harpist Sirin Pancaroglu and through his
participation with the Turkish Tekfen Philharmonic Orchestra and
the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra. Yinon has performed in various
festivals and has given concerts in Japan, Turkey, Estonia, Spain,
the USA, Belgium, England, Holland, Greece, Switzerland, France,
Bosnia, Cyprus and Israel. In 2003 Yinon released his first
original album Changing Moments (Magda Records), in which his
talents as a composer and arranger were exposed for the first
time. He released his second album Klezmer for the Sultan in 2005
(Oriente Muzik). In addition to composing, performing and
recording, Yinon conducts percussion workshops and has released an
Instructional D.V.D on Middle Eastern percussion. Yinon currently
lives in Istanbul, where he continues to create, develop and
perform his music.