Exile

Artist: Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble
Label: Enja Justin Time
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 068944330522
EAN: 0068944330522
ASIN: B00008ZZ7Y

Release Date: 2003-05-06

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Lament for cornet, sad trumpet, lonely bugle

Tracks:

Dal'ouna on the Return
Al-Quds
Jenin
Ouz
Orient House
Land of Canaan
Exile
Côte Méditerranée
Epilogue

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Customer Reviews:

Genius with his own opinions.......2005-03-24

I loved looking at the other reviewers moaning about this political issue or that offensive remark... Gilad's plan is working.

By that I mean, 'No, no offence to anyone, but people are entitled to their opinions, and hearing them gives us the bigger picture.' Anyone who rebukes that theory is 1 dimensional and weak willed. I listen to and talk with people from all creeds and colors, yet it never stains my overall opinions on anything. They may serve to open up new ideas and concepts... and that's the spirit of free speech!

On a musical level he is just as radical. He plays with the Blockheads, too, who are friends of mine, and its not hard to see why hes so good! I didn't know giants still walked the earth, but they dooooo...

stupidity.......2004-11-22

To those who would call Gilad a shame to his country I say this;
Man speaks God laughs. You ought be ashamed to have so little care for the humanity of others, as they should be ashamed for their lack of humanity. Now that you are both the same in the eyes of god enjoy the wonderful music.
Burnie Metzen
Bend, Oregon

The saddest disc ever recorded?.......2004-10-30

If true, that alone should vault it into 5-star territory. And I am very much tempted to give it the highest rating.

But.

Despite the admitted gloriousness of this music, there is something almost completely wrongheaded--not to say absurd--about this project. Gilad Atzmon, an alienated Israeli, someone who has abandoned the legitimacy of his country's Zionist project, has written a remarkable musical document whose intent, apparently, is to validate the legitimacy of the Palestinian cause.

Talk about weird.

Here's a man who grew up in modern-day Israel. And who rejects his country's project to protect itself from Arab--specifically, Palestinian--depredations. Instead, he has affirmed the supposedly legitimate Palestinian right-of-return, by analogy, one supposes, to the Israeli right-of-return. Very curious for a Jew raised in Israel.

Those who say that politics holds no legitimate place is music reviews miss the point. If a musician purposefully contextualizes his music in political terms, it must be engaged at that level. My own view, about 180 degrees opposite of Atzmon's, is that although the specifics of his politics are nonsensical, he nevertheless has struck upon something legitimate: the desire of oppressed peoples for a homeland of their own.

Thus, there is a glory, a substance, about this music, no matter how wrong-headed it is. One might legitimately draw an analogy between the music contained herein and, say, that of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Both arise out of profound alienation. Both effect a modality of profound elegiacism. Both score big musically and emotionally. That they proceed from false premises is perhaps less important than the fact that they bear witness to legitimate (albeit wrongly placed) sentiments.

Eminently listenable, sad/profound, wonderfully evocative on its own terms, this is music that anyone even faintly attracted to world jazz should at least become familiar with. Four-and-a-half stars, even though I am violently opposed to its specific and idiosyncratic point of view.

Please, keep your political opinion to yourselves!!!.......2004-08-22

You are supposed to review music, nothing else. I am appaled by the fact that Amazon.com doesn't do a better job of checking the reviews before posting them online.

About the album: Gilad's strongest effort to-date. An awesome fusion between jazz and middle-eastern music. Gilad is a superb saxophonist, powerful yet melancholic and sometimes reminds me of Jan Garbarek. The rest of the band is energetic, tight and expressive. Too bad, I don't understand Arabic because the lyrics must be beautiful. Highly recommended for all ethno-jazz fans.

Cambridge censor notwithstanding-this soulful journey...........2004-02-25

How can one not mention the suffering of being in EXILE when talking about the music/musicians of EXILE? How can one not talk about the deep place that Gilad's music evokes when he is an exiled Israeli due to the very thing which "Cambridge" wants to silence. Perhaps we should all cease any creative efforts used to expiate our sorrow, grief and rage at the racist violence which goes unmentioned in American media when it whitewashes unmitigated Zionist arrogance. I am a non-Zionist Jew who mourns the "latest" Palestinian crucifixion.

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