YITZHAK YEDID: "Angels Revolt" from "Oud Bass Piano Trio"

YITZHAK YEDID "Oud Bass Piano Trio"
Suite In Five Movements
Yitzhak Yedid | Between the Lines(2008) CD

By Glenn Astarita:




Award-winning Israeli composer/pianist Yitzhak Yedid is a paradox of sorts. His methodology consists of music without boundaries and he's difficult to pigeonhole, which is all good of course. Other than his numerous commissions for various arts-related formats, his overall muse combines an aesthetic that teeters between jazz, new music, avant-garde, Middle Eastern folk and much more.

Suite In Five Movements, released by the bleeding-edge German progressive Between the Lines label, signifies a unique convergence of various cultural elements that provide the core mindset for the unorthodox instrumentation. The artist yields a ripe fruit founded upon myths, prayer and Eastern modalities amid seamlessly exercised sojourns into contemporary classical and freeform improvisation. More importantly, Yedid professes a singular voice throughout this album and past accomplishments.


On the opener "First Movement," bassist Ora Boasson Horev renders a solemn bowed-bass passage that elicits a rather dour outlook, or perhaps a backdrop for mourning. Contrasts abound, where the piano-oud- bass alignment delves into jubilant Mid-East unison phrasings and minimalist-like choruses. It doesn't end there. These five movements project a symbiosis of emotive attributes, where dark voicings give way to evolving plots.


Yedid's carefully constructed works are engineered with periodic intervals of mystical frameworks, largely induced by oudist Mikhail Maroun. Then, in other regions of sound and scope, Yedid leads the unit through daintily crafted lullabies amid a few introspective solo piano spots. Yedid's musicality resides on a higher plane while offering bountiful panoramas for the mind's eye.


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Track listing: First Movement; Second Movement; Third Movement; Fourth Movement; Fifth Movement.


Personnel: Mikhail Maroun: oud; Ora Boasson Horev: double-bass; Yitzhak Yedid: piano.



If you wish to purchase the album, the best (and the cheapest) way is via Amazone.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Suite-Five-Movements-Yitzhak-Yedid/dp/B001320CV6/ref=sr...

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Music

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• avant-garde jazz
• יצחק ידיד
• Oud double bass

[DORMIMIYON]

Yedid's music manages simultaneously to create strong images and emotions anchored conceptually in place and time, while also floating above it with purely abstract melodies.

[tafelgetrank]

incredible! today is the first day i've ever heard of Yitzhak Yedid and i'm an instant admirer. love this music! thanks for posting it!

[MrBishara12]

يا سلام شغل حلو كتير جميل جدا بجنن, الله يعطيكو العافيه

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[DORMIMIYON]

although Yedid has some Cecil Taylor-ish moments as a pianist, its far from an exercise in atonal chaos. An inside/outside approach prevails that, for all its abstraction, is still decidedly musical.its not an easy recording to absorb on the first listen, but the more one listens to the trio, the more he appreciates all of the intriguing twists and turns that go into them. Thoughtfulness and a healthy sense of adventure are both major assets on this excellent disc.

[youyaym]

Thanks. I would think its very good CD, as I have Yedid's quartet 'rerflections' and its a fantastic album- one of my best in that type of music.

[tafelgetrank]

the album is absolutely miraculous. you should buy one.

[youyaym]

Is anyone can tell how is the album?

[youyaym]

Великолепно!!!

Excellent!!!