{"id":42039,"date":"2018-05-21T23:39:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T06:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=42039"},"modified":"2018-05-21T23:39:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T06:39:25","slug":"tigris-lightning-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=42039","title":{"rendered":"Tigris: Lightning EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity is in the air, sound on the threshold of the unknown. Merging African percussion instruments, guitar, bass, keyboards, electronica and an other-worldly vibe, Tigris sends a visceral message that penetrates deep. The first time I heard their new EP Lightning, the music felt like subversive invasion that takes over your body, making it move to the rhythm of the driving dark beat of an alien heart. Hearing Tigris live is an exhilarating experience. In their gleaming, hooded cloaks, the musicians were like satanic surfers on an inter-galactic wave. The revolution is coming and we are crashing into it, meeting it full force with our dancing shoes on.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42044\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180424_215213-1000x750.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42044 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180424_215213-1000x750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180424_215213-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180424_215213-1000x750-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180424_215213-1000x750-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180424_215213-1000x750-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180424_215213-1000x750-245x184.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180424_215213-1000x750-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180424_215213-1000x750-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/20180424_215213-1000x750-980x735.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tigris\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Venturing in several directions at once, creating sound saturated with hues bright and dark, patterns emerging, repeating, interlocking, changing; always moving. Swirling Arabesques and distortion, dancing in Addis Ababa on the corner of Jaffa Road. Where will they take the music on their next journey? Who knows\u2026<\/p>\n<p>On Lighting: Itamar Katzir \u2013 talmbat, mbalax, bota; Oded Aloni \u2013 cajon, ganza, crash\/gong, bongo, quarkabeb; Amir Sadot \u2013 Gibson bass; Ilan Smilan \u2013 Guitar; Roy Harmon \u2013 Orla, Yamaha CS01.<\/p>\n<p>Performances: Tuesday, May 22 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/r12tlv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herzl 16<\/a>, Tel Aviv. Show begins at 21:30. Admission free.<\/p>\n<p>Links: Tigris <a href=\"https:\/\/tigrisbeat.bandcamp.com\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bandcamp<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Tigrisband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity is in the air, sound on the threshold of the unknown. Merging African percussion instruments, guitar, bass, keyboards, electronica and an other-worldly vibe, Tigris sends a visceral message that penetrates deep. The first time I heard their new EP Lightning, the music felt like subversive invasion that takes over your body, making it move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}