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Yitzhak Yedid
William Stafford
Rachel Smith
Louise King
Ayesha Gough
Michael Kieran Harvey
Rachael Shipard
Christian Lindberg
Graeme Jennings
The Israel Netanya Kibbutz Orchestra
Divertimenti String Orchestra
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To understand Yitzhak Yedid better, you have to know his biography. Born in Jerusalem in 1971 as a child of Syrian-Jewish immigrants, the multi-talented and inquisitive pianist and composer went to the United States where he studied under Ran Blake and Paul Bley before returning to Jerusalem. “I can simply draw on my most important inspirations in this way,” the 47-year-old explained his frequent changes of abode. He has lived in Brisbane, Australia, for more than a decade, but is in the multi-cultural, multi-religious city several times a year as previously.
A balancing act that promotes creativity. Not the least because the album “Angel's Revolt”, exclusively recorded live, denotes the most radical, uncompromising wraparound between Orient and Occident in Yedid’s discography. The composer uses traditional Arabic harmony, Jewish ritual song forms, a touch of free jazz, European classical music and improvisation, makes them collide directly, but interlocks them from one second to the other in such an organic way that a new style is germinated. It is basically a matter of pictures, moods, abbreviations, stories, messages, and statements: highly complex, politically explosive, up-to-date, completely designed for a powerful effect of music. And it is above all about the first moment, the moment when sounds see the light of the public: a magical, irretrievable moment.
The Temple Mount of Jerusalem, which is holy for both Muslims and Jews and therefore a highly explosive place, served as inspiration for the orchestral piece “Kiddushim Ve'Killulim” (which more or less means "blessing and curse"). Together with conductor Christian Lindberg and the Israel Netanya Kibbutz Orchestra, it premiered in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in November 2017. Yitzhak Yedid succeeded in bridging the traditions of the controversial poles with a daring, but sometimes quite unsettling bridge, in which t....... więcej