{"id":9741,"date":"2011-01-26T07:11:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=9741"},"modified":"2011-01-30T00:23:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T07:23:47","slug":"2011-tel-aviv-blues-fest-at-levontin-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=9741","title":{"rendered":"2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest at Levontin 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

You had to be there \u2013 and if you were, you know what I\u2019m talking about: the Tel Aviv Blues Festival at Levontin 7, January 23 & 24, 2011. Two nights in every shade of blue, from midnight to electric.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Lazer Lloyd Blues Band 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest Levontin 7\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
\u00a0Lazer Lloyd<\/a> and his blues band – Moshe Yankovsky on drums and vocals, Ilan Hillel on bass and vocals \u2013 got the evening off to a soulful start singing originals with a sound that comes from the heart of blues.<\/div>\n
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Lazer Lloyd at 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Festival Levontin 7\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Jewish troubadour is a \u201cLong way from Chicago, long way from New Orleans\u201d but his songs come from the people, the streets, the place we live – \u201cI get the blues so bad, yeah, right in the middle of Tel Aviv.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Acollective 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest Levontin 7\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0Acollective<\/a> – Idan Rabinovici, Roy Rieck, Daniel Shoham, Joseph E-Shine, Roy Rabinovici, Emanuel Slonim & Nadav Luzia – got a rhythm going and had everyone clapping with blues classics and originals. The band had fun playing with a song from Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, and giving it their own interpretation.<\/p>\n

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Idan Rabinovici of Acollective 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest Levontin 7\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New songs included the single Whiskey Eyes from their upcoming album, and others that represented as the band said, \u201cmore a blues state of mind than 12 bar.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Uzi Ramirez 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest Levontin 7\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Uzi Ramirez<\/a>\u00a0opened with a quiet guitar solo then was joined by Shaham Ohana and Tal Tamari and cranked up the volume and rocked the room with thundering blues rock.<\/p>\n

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Uzi Ramirez and Roy Reick 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest Levontin 7\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

bringing back up Roy Reick from Acollective to jam on the harmonica.<\/p>\n

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Israelis\/Action\/Sex with Yehuda Eder 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest Levontin 7\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Israelis\/Action\/Sex<\/a> \u2013 Yuval Kainer, Tom Mochiach and Tamir Shkolnik, announced \u201cWe\u2019re a new band\u201d and with guests Yehuda Eder <\/a>and Hemi Rudner <\/a>launched into an Israeli classic harking back to Eder\u2019s days as guitarist for Tamouz – \u201cHolech Batel\u201d (lyrics Meir Ariel, music Ariel Zilber), then rocked into \u201cOne After 909\u201d (do I really need to tell you who wrote this one?). Rudner confessed that \u201cI never wrote a real blues song,\u201d but tore into \u201cI can\u2019t get no satisfaction\u201d with true blue zeal.<\/p>\n

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Delta 5 Blues Band 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest Levontin 7\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dor Nagar went down to the crossroads to make his own Faustian deal, singing Robert Johnson\u2019s mythic \u201cCross Road Blues\u201d with an almost tender grundge feel, then was joined by the other members of the Delta 5 Blues Band<\/a> – Yossi Tanuri \u2013 electric and acoustic guitar; Dudi Danieli \u2013 bass guitar; Shlomo Ariel \u2013 harmonica, vocals; Gilad Ariel \u2013 drums, vocals; Moran Magal joining for the evening on keyboards and Lital David coming on later with a smoking rendition of Jezebel.<\/p>\n

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Roy Young with Delta 5 Blues Band 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest Levontin 7\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Singing old style blues \u2013 originals and covers the band invited powerhouse Roy Young who filled the room with his presence and even wheedled on more song from the timekeepers monitoring the marathon from the back of the room, singing, \u201cIf you feel good say yeah, if you don\u2019t feel good still say yeah.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Abate Blues 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest Levontin 7\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Abate Blues brought the blues back to Africa with Ethiopian songs from Abate Berihun and the magic of the oud in the hands of Amos Hoffman, with Alon Yofe on percussion Omri Mor on piano and Avri Borochov on contrabass \u2013 this is an amazing ensemble.<\/p>\n

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Abate Berihun 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest Levontin 7\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You don\u2019t need to understand the words, just listen and let their music take you on a journey. Playing originals by Berihun and Hoffman, they finished their set with a new piece composed by the ensemble, so new that they haven\u2019t named it yet.<\/p>\n

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Chicken Fish 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest Levontin 7\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The festival brought Uri Kinrot (guitar), Adam Scheflan (bass) and Ram Gabay (drums) together as Chicken Fish for a set that began with a promise \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m gonna do bad things to you\u201d and saw it through with rock-blues, whiskey voices and dark distortion. Complementing their covers with guest Allen Moon singing originals and closing with \u201cSure \u2018Nuff \u2018N Yes I Do\u201d dedicated to the recently deceased wild rocker Captain Beefheart (aka Don Glen Vliet 1941 \u2013 December 17, 2010).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Seeds brought it all together to close the festival with a set to remember. Ravid Kahalani <\/a>took the stage with a shout of energy and filled it with an ensemble from Israeli classic to contemporary: Alon Olearchik and Efraim Shamir, pianist and vocalist Maya Dunitz, guitarist Uzi Ramirez, oudist Alon Amano Campino, percussionist Roni Ivrin, drummer Amir Bresler and Guy Dagan on harmonica. Taking the music everywhere – from classic blues, to Moroccan and Kahalani\u2019s own Yemen Blues, inviting Sefi Tzizling to join on horns and getting everyone up on their feet \u2013 yeah, you wish you were there\u2026<\/p>\n

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Black Seeds 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest Levontin 7\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Black Seeds 2011 Tel Aviv Blues Fest Levontin 7\/Photo: Elizur Reuveni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You had to be there \u2013 and if you were, you know what I\u2019m talking about: the Tel Aviv Blues Festival at Levontin 7, January 23 & 24, 2011. Two nights in every shade of blue, from midnight to electric.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Lazer Lloyd and his blues band – Moshe Yankovsky on drums and vocals, Ilan Hillel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741","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=9741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}