It is difficult to describe, what Giora Feidman, bass clarinetist, does on stage with his clarinet, how it laughs, cries, and narrates...Master of innovative interpretations of tango, jazz, classical music, and klezmer, her merges all 4 genres into phenomenally expressive, virtuosic, and emotional songs.
Contemporary Indian Dhrupad singing, Latin/Afro/Tango/Milonga/Morna/Rumba/Habanera, electro-sitar, folk cello, Balkan/Indian/Electro/NewAge, Welsh triple harp, Flamenco/Tabla, Celtic/Renaissance/Baroque, Ukrainian folk, Arabic/Jazz, Celtic harp, latin afro tango milonga morna rumba habanera sitar tabla cello folk baroque celtic renaissance ukrainian welsh harp balkan indian arabic world music
Though he was born in the string quarry of Russia and refined in the purifying precincts of Juilliard, Zhurbin turned out to be a lover of gritty hybrids. The music he writes and plays is full of Brahmsian tone, Bartok lines, hiccupping Hungarian rhythms, Klezmer soul and the sexy plaintiveness of tango and the blues.
---Justin Davidson, Newsday. //
Rustic dances and evocative soundscapes, all crafted from ... the gorgeously grainy purr of his fiddle.
---Steve Smith, Time Out New York. //
Eclectic with an ear for texture...Throaty melodies supported by pizzicato rhythms, lush chordal figures and counterpoint.
---Allan Kozinn, New York Times.
Eclectic with an ear for texture...Throaty melodies supported by pizzicato rhythms, lush chordal figures and counterpoint.
---Allan Kozinn, New York Times