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http://www.accordions.com/news.aspx?d=12-Feb-2016&lang=ru&s=11401
12-Feb-2016
by Harley Jones
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 The Jerusalem Post, Barry Davis 10th February reports (some excerpts):New York-based Israeli accordionist Uri Sharlin brings his cross-cultural musical baggage to this weekend’s Red Sea Jazz Festival in Eilat, 11 to 13th February. The accordion has a price of place in the history of this still young state. The iconic image of groups of kibbutznikim, or other hale and hearty pioneering characters, sitting around a campfire while a squeezebox operator – preferably wearing a kova tembel, as the inverted basin-shaped hat was affectionately known – played some stirring singalong tunes, has pride of place in Israeli folklore. Over the years, however, the accordion has spread its genre and stylistic wings in the consciousness of the general public and, when 40-year-old New York resident Uri Sharlin performs at this year’s winter version of the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Eilat (February 13, 5:45 p.m.), the audience at the Royal Garden Hotel will get a rich brew of “jazz spiced up with Balkan, Brazilian and Arab scents,” as the festival blurb has it. Actually, there are even more strands to Sharlin’s cross-cultural musical baggage, with Irish rhythms and Klezmer melodies also making their way into his output. Sharlin has put together a suitably multipronged act to help him pump out the requisite textures and energies, and he will be joined by the other mostly New Yorkbased four members of his DogCat Ensemble which features flutist Itai Kriss, guitarist Jonathan Albalak, bassist Daniel Ori and drummer Dan Aran. |