Avishai Cohen, one of the most innovative bassists and composers today, will release Gently Disturbed, his first release with his newly configured trio, from May on his own Razdaz Recordz label. While to outward appearances the trio would seem to be the standard piano-bass-drum formula, the music they've created on Gently Disturbed is far from the standard jazz trio repertoire. Featuring nine original compositions (written either by Cohen or by the trio collaboratively), including one traditional Israeli song, Gently Disturbed is an amalgamation of melody and groove, complexity and simplicity that nearly redefines the concept of jazz. With the departure of long-time pianist Sam Barsh, Cohen has slightly reconfigured his trio with the addition of Israeli pianist Shai Maestro. Since Cohen is an accomplished pianist in his own right and has performed on bass with such acclaimed jazz pianists as Danilo Perez, Brad Mehldau and of course Chick Corea, and because the previous keyboard players in his bands (Sam Barsh and Jason Lindner) have been exceptional, it is even more striking to note that Maestro is just 21 years old. Rounding out the trio is the brilliant Mark Guiliana on drums, who has been playing and touring with Cohen since 2003 and who Modern Drummer Readers Poll 2007 cited as "one of the best up-and-coming stars of today's drumming scene." Cohen's releases on Razdaz, which he founded with manager Ray Jefford in 2003, have consistently earned critical approbation, beginning with 2003's Lyla, followed by at Home in 2005, and through to 2006's critically acclaimed Continuo then followed by last year's Double Live CD/DVD release, As Is... Live at the Blue Note (Razdaz / Half Note).

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Now available at a new price - this is one of the most unclassifiable and multidimensional projects released by Naive. a beautiful CD-DVD-book, a "Music-Fiction" called Taiga Maya and conceived by contemporary musician-writer Thierry van Roy and Melanie Gabriel (the daughter of Peter). "My concept of Music-Fiction, based on the principle of alternative history, consists in rewriting History of the past or the future and to imagine a music that could have existed or might exist. Taiga Maya is the traditional music of a future civilization, born from the fortuitous and virtual encounter of the Siberian Yakuts and the Mayans of southern Mexico a few years after the major Earth disaster of 2012. In a shamanic way, Taiga Maya tries to show the need to be connected to the real essence of life, to Nature, and to open our spirit to the non-ordinary reality that surrounds us." - Thierry Van Roy.

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Impressions of Africa

EPHEMERA

Following the worldwide success of her first feature film CARAMEL (2006), "WHERE DO WE GO NOW?" is the second film of the director Nadine Labaki. Entirely shot in Lebanon from October to December 2010, the movie was presented during the Cannes Film Festival. Thanks to his great understanding of Nadine Labaki's work and his extreme ability to visualize the images of the film and to translate them into music just from reading the script, Khaled Mouzanar created and orchestrated a real musical piece with other musicians and singers. The song lyrics are by Tania Saleh, a very good friend of theirs and an extremely gifted artist.

THE NUTCRACKER SESSIONS

FOR THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF HIS ALBUM "AT HOME" AND HIS HIT SONG "REMEMBERING", AVISHAI COHEN IS OFFERING, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, A VINYL EDITION OF THIS JAZZ CLASSIC !