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Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz (born 1975) is an American bassist and oud player who has recorded and performed extensively with Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits, Daniel Zamir's Satlah, Rashanim, Pharaoh's Daughter, and John Zorn. Blumenkranz studied at the Manhattan School of Music, the Rimon School of Music in Israel, and holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 2012 he released the first album under his leadership ''Abraxas: Book of Angels Volume 19'' featuring compositions by John Zorn. accessed January 29, 2014 Blumenkranz was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Discography As leader *''Abraxas: Book of Angels Volume 19'' (Tzadik, 2013) *''Psychomagia'' (Tzadik, 2014) ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bassist
A bassist (also known as a bass player or bass guitarist) is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass (upright bass, contrabass, wood bass), bass guitar (electric bass, acoustic bass), keyboard bass (synth bass) or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or trombone. Many musical genres tend to be associated with at least one or more of these instruments. Overview Since the 1960s, the electric bass has been the standard bass instrument for funk, R&B, soul, rock, reggae, jazz fusion, heavy metal, country and pop. The double bass is the standard bass instrument for classical music, bluegrass, rockabilly, and most genres of jazz. Low brass instruments such as the tuba or sousaphone are the standard bass instrument in Dixieland and New Orleans-style jazz bands. Tuba players are sometimes conflated with bassists, due to the instrument being used to double a part for the double bass in early music recordings. Tubists who tend to fill the role of a bassist incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Madof
Jon Madof (born May 28, 1974) is an American guitarist, composer, and leader of the bands Rashanim and Zion80, who has performed extensively with other artists including John Zorn, Matisyahu, Marc Ribot, and Frank London. PopMatters' Sean Murphy said "All of his projects thus far have explored traditional Jewish sounds with a skillful blend of surf music, thrash, jazz and calmer acoustic. Each successive effort has seen Madof stretching and pushing himself farther, in as well as out, utilizing exotic instruments with feeling always at the forefront".Murphy, S.Beware Soaring Yarmulkes! Jon Madof and Zion80 Are Making World Music for a New World PopMatters, January 20, 2014 Discography As leader With Rashanim *'' Rashanim'' (Tzadik, 2003) *'' Masada Rock'' (Tzadik, 2005) *'' Shalosh'' (Tzadik, 2006) *''The Gathering'' (Tzadik, 2009) With Zion80 *'' Zion80'' (Tzadik, 2012) *'' Adramelech: Book of Angels Volume 22'' (Tzadik, 2014) * ''Warriors'' (Chant, 2017) With others With S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workingman's Death
''Workingman's Death'' is a 2005 Austrian-German documentary film written and directed by Michael Glawogger. It premiered at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. The film deals with the extremes to which workers go to earn a living in several countries around the world. The film is composed of six chapters. The first five depict hazardous conditions of hard laborers around the world and the sixth shows contrasting scenes of youths in a former German industrial complex which had been converted into a leisure park: #"Heroes" – Miners of Donets Basin, Ukraine #"Ghosts" – Sulfur carriers in Ijen, Indonesia #"Lions" – Butchers in an open-air market in Port Harcourt, Nigeria #"Brothers" – Welders in the Gadani ship-breaking yard in Pakistan #"The Future" – Steel workers in Liaoning, China #"Epilogue" – Youths in Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord in Germany Reception The film was met with a largely positive critical reception with a 73% approval rating reported by Rotten Tomatoes as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protocols Of Zion
''The Protocols of the Elders of Zion'' is a fabricated text purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination. Largely plagiarized from several earlier sources, it was first published in Imperial Russia in 1903, translated into multiple languages, and disseminated internationally in the early part of the 20th century. It played a key part in popularizing belief in an international Jewish conspiracy. The text was exposed as fraudulent by the British newspaper ''The Times'' in 1921 and by the German newspaper ''Frankfurter Zeitung'' in 1924. Beginning in 1933, distillations of the work were assigned by some German teachers, as if they were factual, to be read by German schoolchildren throughout Nazi Germany. It remains widely available in numerous languages, in print and on the Internet, and continues to be presented by antisemitic groups as a genuine document. It has been described as "probably the most influential work of antisemitism ever written". Creation The ''Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unknown Masada
''Masada Anniversary Edition Volume 3: The Unknown Masada'' is the third album in a series of five releases celebrating the 10th anniversary of John Zorn's Masada songbook project. It features twelve previously unreleased Masada compositions performed by Erik Friedlander's Quake (1), Rashanim (2), Dave Douglas (3), Tatsuya Yoshida (4), Naftule's Dream (5), Jamie Saft (6), Zahava Seewald (7), Koby Israelite (8), Julian Kytasty (9); Fantômas (10), Wadada Leo Smith and Ikue Mori (11), and Eyvind Kang (12). Reception Allmusic critic Sean Westergaard wrote "... there is a tremendous amount of stylistic diversity here, from the very traditional sound of Julian Kytasty to the very untraditional sounds of Fantômas. In fact, listeners more familiar with '' The Circle Maker'' or ''Bar Kokhba'' might not be prepared for some of the hard rock treatments of some of these tunes... The Zorn crowd tends to follow his every move and usually know what to expect; the uninitiated should prob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voices In The Wilderness
''Masada Anniversary Edition Volume 2: Voices in the Wilderness'' is the second album in a series of five releases celebrating the 10th anniversary of John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conducting, conductor, saxophonist, arrangement, arranger and record producer, producer who "deliberately resists category". His Avant-garde music, avant-garde and experimental music, ex ...'s Masada (band), Masada songbook project. It features 24 compositions by Zorn, each performed by different ensembles. Reception The Allmusic site awarded the album 3½ stars.Allmusic Album Entry accessed August 2, 2011. The Klezmer Shack stated "for the wonderous ways in which these compositions are re-discovered and re-explored by a host of ensembles around the world, this collection becomes es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
