Improvisation: Live at the Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem

I just took a moment or two to play a quick improvisation here. It doesn't have a name, but it's probably my brain's way of interpreting the incredible variety of sounds that I've been hearing in the last day or two: the call to prayer that floats over the old stone buildings, the sound of an Oud player plucking gently in the distance, Achron-like Jewish melodies, and the bustle of the overcrowded arabic markets (no British-style health and safety laws here!). Even the ice cream vans play beautiful (loud) orchestral music!

The acoustic mêlée that results is a completely wild fusion of the most contrasting sounds... but somehow, they together make up a coherant soundscape that is the soundtrack to daily life in Jerusalem.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• violin
• music
• improvisation
• jerusalem
• classical
• arabic
• israel

[pan7afrodita]

listening to it again after more than one year and a half...still gives me shivers and an intense feeling of suffering. thank you for playing so beautifully!

[simonhewittjones]

thank you so much for your comment. even though it contains a couple of very raw pitches, i wanted to leave it online as there's something captured there that was very true to what i saw and heard in jerusalem during that easter week. glad to know that it conveyed those feelings to you. S

[1942tj]

Very nice!!!

[halloun88]

ya 3adra

[pan7afrodita]

it is absolutely stunning! can you post more of these improvisations?