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'Handsonit' live with Bohuslan Big Band
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'Handsonit' live with Bohuslan Big Band
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Released: Sep 26, 2011
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  • Genre: Experimental / Jazz / Nu-Jazz

    Location Tel Aviv, Is

    Profile Views: 674928

    Last Login: 2/1/2012

    Member Since 8/5/2006

    Website www.avishaicohen.com

    Record Label EMI/ Blue Note

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    « Seven Seas » On his last trio album, Gently Disturbed, the ultimate work released on the label he founded (Razdaz Recordz) prior to signing with Blue Note, Avishai Cohen wrapped up, as it were, the musical banquet with a piece called Structure in Emotion – a melody he is especially fond of since it already featured on his first record released by his own outfit in 2003, Lyla. Avishai Cohen's music delivers a torrent of emotion(s), the structure of the pieces, their intimate architecture, springs surprises, taking unexpected turns, rather like a melodious, pacific, salutary time bomb. His compositions keep emotion in check to let it blossom, to avoid the energy fizzling out before reaching the listener. With Seven Seas, this native of Jerusalem now established in Tel Aviv, now one of the most popular jazz players of the past decade, takes his artistic approach to its zenith. OUT OF THE MAGICIAN'S HAT Last year, we left Avishai Cohen with Aurora, his first record with Blue Note. On this opus brimming with heady charm, the double-bass player, composer, pianist and arranger added yet another string to his bow: vocals, a talent he had discreetly deployed on some previous recordings, now asserted loud and clear. Aurora showcased Avishai Cohen's talent in a new light: the composer with wandering lyrics, the phenomenal musician, the astounding stage performer, the one Chick Corea called a genius, the musician that Down Beat defined as a jazz visionary, all stepped aside to reveal a vocalist with a gentle voice and cosmopolitan tone, with Hebrew and Arab-Andalusian overtones. With Aurora, he had formed his stage family, a unique quintet. Together, they travelled the world, playing to consistently warm applause in all four corners of the globe. And Seven Seas effortlessly comes across as the consequence, ricochet and natural fruit of these many hundreds of concerts. This experience prompted him to give birth to a team effort, to the point of making the young percussion virtuoso Itamar Doari as joint producer of the project. CITIZEN KANE It was in this frame of mind that the musicians got together for a few weeks in autumn 2010 in the haven of peace, technology and creation, aka Nilento, the Swedish studio set up by Lars Nilsson. As if getting back to his roots with a promise for the future, Avishai Cohen once again found himself working with a sound engineer with whom his relations were not strictly professional – yet another member of his musical family. Lars Nilsson architect of Continuo and Gently Disturbed, touchstones in Cohen's discography, did a lot to showcase the double bass players' pristine compositions. With Nilsson, Cohen not only found someone to record his music, but an ear and the technical prowess to match his artistic perfectionism. Truffaut said of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane it was "THE film, the one which sums up and prefigures all of the others". It is tempting to apply the same to Seven Seas when considered as part of Avishai Cohen's body of work, as it blends all paths and voices explored by the artist since the early 1990s when he first burst on the New York scene. But above all, he announces and puts forward an (ever more) ambitious, subtle and refined art in composition, without jettisoning his hallmark energy, frenzy and emotion. Just listen to the labyrinthine sounds of Two Roses and you'll get the picture. Featuring nursery rhymes, lullabies and suites in which heroic inspiration and symphonics abound. Seven Seas plunges us into a fabulous sound voyage, in which understatement and magnitude play a never-ending game of ping-pong, a trip that easily transposes to the silver screen. Once you get past the opening credits dripping in joyful nostalgia, you steer past isles of rhythm and continents of sound, winding up with a traditional piano ladino with Cohen's intense vocals. With Seven Seas, Cohen has reached a new pinnacle as an artist. It could be classified as a mature work, if that were not too heavy a connotation. It's more of a fusion album, perhaps bringing us closer to reality of an odyssey, with its title that transports us into nautical legend: Seven Seas' many twists and turns make it the most exciting of albums in Cohen's discography.

  • Members

    Discography : Adama 1998, Devotion 1999, Colors 2000, Unity 2001, Lyla 2003, At Home 2004, Continuo 2006, AS IS 2007, Gently Disturbed 2008, Sensitive Hours ( Israel only 2008) Aurora 2009. .... www.avishaimusic.com.. ..www.avishaicohen.fr.. ..www.myspace.com/avishaicohenmusic.. ..twitter.com/AvishaiCohen.. ..www.myspace.com/bluenotefrance.. ..www.bluenote.com.. FOR MORE INFORMATION REGARDING AVISHAI COHEN PLEASE CONTACT:.. Ray Jefford - Future History at Management@avishaimusic.com.. or razdaz@avishaimusic.com.. Tel: UK 44 (0) 7816 921 753 Website:www.avishaicohen.com

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  • Jazz'min Tutum

     proud to say its the first album ive gone out physically and bought in about a year...Manna!

    30 days ago
  • The Gamines

     Can't stop playing "Seven Seas!" Amazing!

    3 months ago
  • Rocco

    I love your music.Great

    5 months ago
  • venanzo lini

    grand..grand.... grand

    5 months ago
  • Panayot Mitkov

    Hi Avishai! Today we Christians celebrate Eastern Orthodox Church Virgin Mary! So in this case for this great celebration of our Christian I congratulate all my friends on myspace and they wish to be good people and love and respect as brothers and sisters!! May God bless you all !!!!!!!!!

    5 months ago
  • Panayot Mitkov

    Hi Avishai! Heartily wish a peaceful and beautiful Friday and a relaxed and full of many emotions that weekend you will make your life beautiful and positive with many charming moments !!!!!!!!!!

    5 months ago
  • Panayot Mitkov

    Hi Avishai! I wish with all my heart and soul, a great musical and charming doprene Wednesday that will be professional success and many happy moments !!!!!!!

    5 months ago
  • Panayot Mitkov

    Hi Avishai! I warmly wish you a great Friday and mostly wonderful and peaceful weekend!! May God be with you and keep smiling in litsetoti !!!!!!!

    6 months ago
  • JazzTreo

     great music!

    7 months ago
  • Cetou Cetou

    i just discovered Avishai in concert in Nice (France)...an exceptional and generous concert that blew away every one away (jazz and non jazz lovers).
    I was so much taken into the emotion that i need to get a confirmation that the song he sang saying "thought by his mother" and played with fiddlestick was NOCHES NOCHES

    7 months ago
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