Chris Searle on Gilad Atzmon and The Orient House Ensemble

I am very proud thanks to this piece of writing by Chris Searle
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/97593

Arts Depot, London, Finchley N12
Sunday 14 November 2010
by Chris Searle

 

Jazz lunatic Gilaz Atzmon

It is a full decade since the Israeli alto saxophonist Gilad Atzmon established his quartet the Orient House Ensemble.

It's a doubly ironic name for a jazz group, because it not only alludes to the building in Jerusalem originally designated as the official home of the Palestinian Authority which was subsequently seized and occupied by the Israeli army. It also referes to Atzmon himself who, as as a young man, was drafted into the Israeli Defence Force.

Yet his growth as a major talent as an ex-member of Ian Dury's Blockheads, a satirical novelist of works such as Guide To The Perplexed (2001) and My One And Only Love (2005) along with his ardent support for a free, democratic, inclusive and ecumenical Palestine makes his jazz story both unique and full of controversy.

His close musical confrere Robert Wyatt has called him "a seriously funny writer and the wittiest musician since Ronnie Scott" and, alongside a Swiftian edge to his writing, Atzmon maintains a deep empathy and uncompromising support for the Palestinian people, to whom he dedicates his performances and for whom he constantly campaigns and fundraises.

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This Thursday, the OHE Marathon

In Loving Memory of America

 Thursday 18 November 2010

 

7:30pm  @ the Artsdepot, London

London Jazz Festival 2010


Ten years of the  Orient House Ensemble, with a special three set performance.  featuring special guests Asaf Sirkis, Guillermo Rozenthuler,  Tali Atzmon, Romanno Viazaani  and the Sigamos Quartet. Materials from our early albums,  will be followed by  our acclaimed In Loving Memory of America  tribute to Charlie Parker.  We will also play some materials from our new collaboration album with Robert Wyatt and Ros Stephen For The Ghost Within. We  will conclude with new music from the band’s new release The Tide Has Changed.
To read a Guardian 4 stars review of The Tide Has Changed,click  here 
To read a Guardian 5 stars review of For The Ghosts Within, click here

Thursday 18 November 2010
7:30pm

Artsdepot
5 Nether St
London
N12 0GA
020 8369 5454
          Tickets
£16 (£14 conc.) + bkg



Radio Interview With Carlos Pérez Cruz

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A few days ago  I was talking to Carlos Pérez Cruz on El Club De Jazz.

We discussed music, politics, Palestine, For The Ghost Within, The Tide Has Changed and more...

The Spanish program is here  http://www.elclubdejazz.com/envivo/    (10/11/2010)

The English interview is here:

Club de Jazz 10 11 2010 www.elclubdejazz.com with Gilad Atzmon by Gilad Atzmon

 

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Gilad Atzmon: There Is No Business like Shoa Business

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The FBI was courageous enough to look into holocaust greed. I wonder how long will it take for our historians to be brave enough to treat WWII as a historical chapter.  How long will it take to European countries to remove Holocaust denial laws and reinstate freedom of speech?  How long will it take before we manage to look at Jewish history as a continuum instead of isolated patches of victimhood loaded with false legitimacy to rob Palestinians.

I guess not too long.

 



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Islamic Human Rights Commission (UK): Letter challenging the promotion of hate in The Independent

http://yahyaottawa.blogspot.com/2010/11/islamic-human-rights-commission-uk.html

PRESS RELEASE --- 09 November 2010

On 27 October 2010, The Independent newspaper published an Islamophobic article entitled “Poor Lauren Booth – she would do anything to get in with the tough kids”. The online link to the article was entitled “What sort of woman freely converts to Islam?”

The article uses the conversion story of Lauren Booth as an excuse to attack Islam as well as demonise and incite hatred towards Muslims.

The article suggests that Islam is by its very nature, violent, misogynistic and that no rational, western woman would consider it an option. It also states that Islam, and by extension Muslims, are anti-Semitic.

To read more click here

 

Gilad Atzmon: Watch some Isolated Voices of Jewish Reason

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It is hard for me to decide what is it that delegitimizes the Jewish State.

Is it the ‘loyal oath’,  ‘the occupation’, ‘the settlements’  or the execution of peace activists on the Mavi Marmara?

The Jewish protestors in the following clips think that:

The Settlements Delegitimize Israel

The Occupation Delegitimizes Israel

The Siege of Gaza Delegitimizes Israel

The Loyalty Oath Delegitimizes Israel

Silencing Dissent Delegitimizes Israel

I would suggest that the idea of a 'Jewish state' is hardly legitimate to start with, for it is categorically and spiritually racist and inherently ethno-centric.

I do not find anything legitimate in the Jewish state



Young Jews Disrupt Netanyahu at Jewish General Assembly from stefanie fox on Vimeo.

 

 

Joe Rennison: Gilad Atzmon More Than Just a Musician

Gilad Atzmon: Ahead of our London Jazz Festival Concert (Arts Depot, November 18),  I was interviewed for the London Student Paper by Joe Rennison.

 

 

 

Joe Rennison: Gilad Atzmon More Than Just a Musician

Few students currently at University of London will remember Gilad Atzmon’s gig at SOAS in 2006. His performance was exemplary, as all of his live performances are. Four years later, Atmon is still gigging, still writing and still pushing the boundaries of thought and expression.

I met Atzmon in Soho opposite Ronnie Scotts. As I wait for him to

arrive I spot his name on the October listings for Ronnie’s, a testament to Atzmon’s status within the Jazz community. We meet and go around the corner for breakfast.

On 18 November, The London Jazz Festival will play host to Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble (OHE) as they celebrate their 10th anniversary. The group is Atzmon’s mainstay and has seen him develop as a musician.

 

London Jazz Festival in association with BBC Radio 3 presents: Gilad Atzmon and The Orient House Ensemble Tenth Anniversary Celebration.
Arts Depot Thursday 18th November 2010 7.30PM

 



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Gilad Atzmon: The Anti-Semitic Side of Zionism (must watch)

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If you are interested in Jewish political power and Zionist morbidity you must find the time to watch the first forty minutes of this incredible Israeli documentary. The film outlines what early Zionists thought of their Diaspora Jewish brothers, Jewish wealth, Jewish war mongering and Jewish power.

http://video.google.com

I do not know much at all about the people behind this film, except that they belong to the Israeli Ultra Orthodox sector. The film is there to expose the inherent anti Jewish discrimination within the Zionist discourse.

It is there to prove that Zionism is deeply anti- Semitic. The film is well made and very well researched, and the shocking quotes it outlines are all genuine.  

In case you fail to realise the role of Jewish wealth, the impact of AIPAC, Lord Cash point Levy, the Conservative Friends of Israel, and other relentless Jewish lobbies, Benjamin Ze’ev Herzl (the founder of modern political Zionism) doesn’t seem to mince his words.

Just five minutes into the documentary, Herzl is quoted as saying: “The wealthy Jews control the world…In their hands lies the fate of government and nations” (4:59)

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One Democratic State Is The Way Forward

 

Ruqayyah Chamseddine on Uprooted Palestinian
 

"Building on the Madrid, Boston, and Haifa conferences, a select group of activists from a variety of backgrounds convened last weekend in Dallas, Texas in order to implement an international project - to pass a declaration which professes the need for creating a single democratic state in what is now occupied Palestine....

Speakers included:
Dr.Mazin Qumsiyeh, Palestinian author and expert on Palestinian refugee rights, who spoke to us via video from occupied Palestine.
Lenni Brenner, Jewish anti-Zionist author of Zionism in the Age of the Dictators.
Gilad Atzmon, Israeli-born British jazz musician and anti-Zionist political activist and writer, who spoke to us from Britain.
Paul Hershfield, co-founding member of the Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid, Southern California. Richard Falk, professor of international law at Princeton University.
Virginia Tilley, professor of political science, author of The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock, who spoke to us from South Africa.

To Watch Gilad Atzmon's video address:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVWzG4ti5ks

http://onedemocraticstate.org/

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Lauren Booth: I'm now a Muslim. Why all the shock and horror?

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Some great  spiritually uplifting writing by Lauren Booth in the Guardian today.

"I felt what Muslims feel when they are in true prayer: a bolt of sweet harmony, a shudder of joy in which I was grateful for everything I have (my children) and secure in the certainty that I need nothing more (along with prayer) to be utterly content. I prayed in the Mesumeh shrine in Iran after ritually cleansing my forearms, face, head and feet with water. And nothing could be the same again. It was as simple as that."

 

To read more:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/03/lauren-booth-conversion-to-islam

 

Gilad Atzmon: Dance With Your Neighbours For F**k's Sake

 

Many Western media outlets were delighted to report today that two Israeli women teamed up to become the first same-sex couple to compete in a version of the internationally popular television series “Dancing With the Stars.”

Indeed a great day for humanity. 

Rupert Murdoch’s Sky news reported today that “thirty different countries have versions of the show, but none have done what Israel has this week.”

(To watch Sky News' coverage of the sensational humanitarian event click  here)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwHIksas6U0

Israel is praised here for being an exemplary tolerant and liberal society.

Yet, I am slightly puzzled, if Israel is indeed as tolerant and liberal, how come it fails to dance with its neighbours?

 

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Gilad Atzmon: Julie Sabbath Goy Burchill

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In her desperate attempt to smear Lauren Booth, Independent writer Julie Burchill, a devout Zionist, proves how deceiving British multiculturalism is.

Indeed the Zionification of this Kingdom has left this country in a disastrous ethical limbo.

“Last year I took the first steps towards converting to Judaism; also last year, I abandoned my attempt”, says Burchill.

But I guess that Burchill didn’t really have to convert -- She is obviously far more Jewish than anyone I can think of. Burchill can teach Rabbi Ovadia Yosef what self-love is all about. She can teach Paul Wolfowitz, David Aaronovitch and David Miliband what moral-interventionism stands for. She can give  Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman a crash course in Hasbara.   Burchill can lecture Zionist slander operators on how to spread venom. 

But most significantly, she displays an astonishing command of Jewish humour. Burchill is indeed very funny.

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