well, to accompany the last show, i was going to post a fun selection of songs from the ‘great american songbook’, from a show by david torkanowsky at the new orleans jazzfest in 2017, but it seems to have been released. fortunately, i had this superb recording from avi avital & omer avital waiting in the wings for next weekend. but my goodness… listening to it now, the crowd going wild at the end of the 3rd piece… they were on fire! an album avital meets avital was released in 2017, but as avi avital’s comments at the end of track 3, this was really the first time they had played together:
there is a reason they call this series in the bremen festival the surprise concert. it’s really a surprise, not only for you but also for us. at the beginning of this week, we had no idea how this evening was going to sound like, because we just knew we wanted to do something together and everyone brings from his world something to the table and kind of mix it and do a new project. so we didn’t know really what it’s going to be like. and i think it’s a great surprise for us. even after a week of rehearsals, it’s i think the first time we kind of zoom out and ok, performing in the context of a concert which is very nice, a very nice result actually, just to feel this music with you guys on stage.
avi avital & omer avital
bremen, germany
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musikfest bremen, germany
13 sept 2012
lineup
avi avital – mandolin
omer avital – bass and oud
omer klein – piano
itamar doari – percussions
01 zamzama (omer avital)
02 lonely girl (omer avital)
03 ana maghrebi (omer avital)
04 shedemati (jedidja admon)
05 españa (omer avital)
06 11/8 (avi avital)
07 hiljazain (omer avital)
08 ballada for eli (omer avital)
09 maroc (omer avital)
min 89:01
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sample: t02 lonely girl.mp3 and t04 shedemati.mp3
download: Avi Avital and Omer Avital - Bremen 2012-09-13.zip