Gilad Atzmon is a jazz & world music artist, a novelist and an author focusing on ID politics.
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Gilad Atzmon, multi-talented instrumentalist, writer, political animal, romantic, together with the Orient House Ensemble, has created a magical night. It’s cold outside, it is going to be difficult leaving the Crypt with all its quirkiness and fantastic passionate music.
Read MoreFor the past two decades Israeli born, British based saxophonist, author and political provocateur Gilad Atzmon has matched his incendiary and controversial opinions with a relentlessly questioning attitude to the establishment and his own identity. With 15 albums to his name- backed by his rip-roaring Orient House Ensemble - Atzmon's latest, The Whistle Blower, is perhaps his most compelling to date. His Garrulous playing both mesmerizing and melancholic by turns. Stewart Nicholson discovers the outspoken polymath is still searching for answers in today's polemical maelstrom through passion, humour and politics.
Read MoreWhat is it about British Jews, that has caused so many of them to fail to settle after so many decades? Why are they happy to wander again? Is the notion of dwelling foreign to Jewish culture? Is true assimilation impossible as far as Diaspora Jewish culture is concerned? Is it possible that it is actually the prominence of Jews in British society (media, politics, culture, finance) that makes Jews feel insecure?
Read MoreThe following post is taken from the Ultra Zionist CIF Watch. The hawkish Israeli outlet is bragging today about its success in persuading The Guardian to remove The Wandering Who from its online book shop. Needless to say that The Wandering Who was published three years ago, it has been a best seller since then. It was translated into 12 languages and not a single claim referring to any form of hatred has been issued in the UK or anywhere else. The Wandering Who has been endorsed by the most impressive list of scholars and humanists. Seemingly, it doesn't take much for The Guardian to shamelessly surrender to pressure made by supporters of ethnic cleansing Israel.
Read MoreGilad Atzmon and his Orient House Ensemble have been busy in their musical kitchen, cooking up a delightful menu for their listeners.
Read MoreI guess that Sir Malcom Rifkind is not going to help in the current struggle to defy anti-Semitism...
Read MoreWe are reminded that Malcolm X refused to allow sympathetic white voices to lead the movement for black liberation in the US. Why do complacent non-Jews extol and honor the Jewish voice when it appears pregnant with hidden agendas?
Read MoreRobert speaks about music and socialism, his love to jazz and pluralism. It is fascinating and uplifting.
Read Morene of the hardest-working musicians on the London and UK jazz scene, multi-instrumentalist and composer Atzmon is one of those privileged beings whose instrument (here, chiefly sax) appears simply to be an extension of their own being, such is the fervid eloquence and quick-witted delivery of his performances.
Read MoreAfter a turn on the Pink Floyd’s The Endless River, the Israeli-born saxophonist returns to choppier jazz waters.
Read MoreThe program explores issues to do with Jewish power, Zionism the role of the Jewish Left and The Guardian
Read MoreIf you wish to see the trial of Tony Blair...
Read MoreAntisemitism-the more the Jew hates the Goy, the more the Jew is tormented by the fear that the Goy is similarly hateful.
Read MoreI was born in Israel and it was many years before I realized that Israel was Palestine. I was relatively patriotic. I was looking forward to serving in the army and then I grasped that there was little truth in the Jewish historical narrative. I then gathered that I was living on someone else’s land. At the same time I discovered the saxophone. By the age of 30, I left Israel and never went back.
Read MorePap and Seder: Epstein Child Sex Scandal Only Beginning
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By John Fordham
Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble: The Whistle Blower CD review – muscular tones to naff pop
The expat Israeli musician Gilad Atzmon told Jazzwise magazine: “If my music wants to go in one direction, it will take me with it.”This eighth album by Atzmon’s powerful Orient House Ensemble goes in at least three directions: muscular Coltrane-like energy; melancholy tone-poetry drawing on the Turkish and Arabic inflections in the leader’s playing; cheerfully subversive clowning. The title also splits three ways, referring to Atzmon the virtuoso wind-player, Atzmon the guerrilla of political incorrectness (the heartfelt ballad For Moana was inspired by the late Italian porn-star and politician Moana Pozzi), and to the jokey wolf-whistling the band does on the closing title track – which sounds like a naff French pop song of the 1960s., and is a typically Atzmonian disruption of the affecting and romantic melancholia that has preceded it. For all its distractions, though, this is a world-jazz album displaying Atzmon’s most explicit commitment to the “jazz” component of that label – as evocatively mellow as the work of an early New Orleans clarinettist in The Romantic Church, awesome on double-time alto-sax bebop, impassioned and swooping on soprano in the Coltranesque Let Us Pray or To Be Free. Gilad Atzmon is many things, some of them lovable and some less so, but he’s a gifted jazz musician to his core.
To buy The Whistle Blower:
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Fanfare.website (download)
By Jeanie Barton
When I heard that just 13 people had managed to cancel the musical performance of Gilad Atzmon, whose band has previously played The Bonington Arts Theatre 9 times to packed houses, without any complaint from audiences or residents, Jewish or Gentile, I balked at what this could mean for freedom of speech, jazz and music in general.
Read MoreBigots and racists cheer up. Though you may no longer be able to bash, Israel, ‘The Lobby’, the Talmud and the predominance of the Holocaust, you can still celebrate your hatred towards Black, Muslims, gays, Disabled, the ill, the weak, women in general, women in particular, basically everyone and everything that isn’t chosen.
Read MoreIntroduction by GA: The following fascinating article by Aaron Dover suggests that the entire antisemitism panic we witness in the UK is a driven by a crude conscious manipulation of numbers and statistics.
Read MoreJewish Power is the capacity to silence criticism of Jewish Power...
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