Harel Shachal & ANISTAR/ Esh (The Common Gene 2005)
Harel Shachal on G Clarinet, Soprano & Alto Saxophones
Skye Steele on Violin & Kemane
Christopher Hoffman on Cello
Harvey Valdez on Oud
Uri Sharlin on Accordion
Alon Carmelly on [+]Harel Shachal & ANISTAR/ Esh (The Common Gene 2005)
Harel Shachal on G Clarinet, Soprano & Alto Saxophones
Skye Steele on Violin & Kemane
Christopher Hoffman on Cello
Harvey Valdez on Oud
Uri Sharlin on Accordion
Alon Carmelly on Bass
Tomer Tzur on Riqq (Tof Miriam), Darbuka, Djambe & Frame Drum
E.J. Fry on Frame Drum, Dumbeck & zilds
John Hadfield on Dumbek, Riqq & Ocean Drum
Recorded & Mixed by Rendy Crafton at Kaleidoscope Sound NJ
Mastering by Allan Tucker at Foothill Digital Studio NY
ANISTAR plays an innovative blend of Jazz, Gypsy, Balkan, Mediterranean and Traditional Middle-Eastern music.
By mixing traditional instruments, forms and harmonies together with a modern Jazz conception, ANISTAR is melding the sounds of the desert with the contemporary urban landscape of New York City.
Harel Shachal launched the ANISTAR Group in spring of 2002 with the mission of using music to overcome fear and break down boundaries between historically estranged cultures.
Assembling its own unique sound from the various musical traditions of the Middle-East, Mediterranean, Africa, and America, ANISTAR is at once inviting and challenging, familiar and exotic, ancient and modern.
Harel Shachal & ANISTAR are based in New York. The members of the band are originally from the USA and from the Middle East.
Harel Shachal is playing Middle Eastern Saxophone and Clarinet. Harel takes his inspiration from the foremost iconoclasts and innovators in each idiom he has explored-- from Jazz and Be-Bop to Klezmer, Gypsy, Mediterranean, North African and Middle-Eastern music; from Charlie Parker, Eric Dolphy and Henry Thredgill to Samir Srour (the Egyptian saxophonist) and the great Turkish clarinetists, Mustafa Kandirali, Sukru Tunar and Suffet Gundeger. Harel incorporates quarter tones and Middle Eastern mellisma into his approach to the saxophone and the G Clarinet with a fluidity that demonstrates the depth of his exploration of the style. The freedom and driving sense of narrative in his improvisations evince an equal command of the Jazz aesthetic.
"This fine local nonet is led by an Israeli saxist named Harel Shachal. The instrumentation includes oud, darbuka, dumbek, frame drum, cello, violin, accordion, bass and a
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