Music Showcase | Day II

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Online Broadcast

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Music Showcase Festival, Israel’s biggest showcase event, is going online – as a futuristic live-stream event!

Tonight the Showcase studio will be hosting:

Shai Maestro
El Khat
ORI
Riff Cohen
FULL TRUNK

Access our live-stream right here, or via our Facebook page or Youtube channel.

We are proud to welcome you to join viewers from Israel and all around the world, as well as many figures from the international music industry.

 

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Riff Cohen - A Paris - Official Video

International Music Showcase Festival | Day II | Online Broadcast

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Music Showcase Festival, Israel’s biggest showcase event, is going online – as a futuristic live-stream event!

Tonight the Showcase studio will be hosting:

Shai Maestro
El Khat
ORI
Riff Cohen
FULL TRUNK

Access our live-stream right here, or via our Facebook page or Youtube channel.

We are proud to welcome you to join viewers from Israel and all around the world, as well as many figures from the international music industry.

 

Shai Maestro Trio

Shai Maestro is one of the most promising and talented pianists of his generation. Since his debut with his own trio in 2011, Shai has shaped a strong and unique personal identity and has portrayed an incredible musical fluidity, making him and his trio one of the most powerful and harmonious groups in jazz today.

During his musical career, Shai had a chance to perform and collaborate with many renowned musicians. One of the most important at the beginning of Shai’s career was being invited to be part of Avishai Cohen trio, together with Mark Guiliana. Maestro recorded four albums with the Avishai Cohen Trio, including two on Blue Note Records: Gently Disturbed (2008), Sensitive Hours (2008), Aurora (2009), and Seven Seas (2011). Shai also performed in a duo format with Chris Potter, had Joshua Redman featured as a guest during his trio performance.

2018 marked an important year for Shai, signing with major jazz label ECM and recording his first album ‘The Dream Thief’ there, featuring the gifted pianist fronting his superlative trio with young and fellow Israeli Ofri Nehemya on drums and Peruvian bassist Jorge Roeder, but also him as a solo-pianist. Introspective, lyrical, virtuosic and differentiated. 

Shai’s second album on a renowned ECM label is going to come out early in 2021. This time the trio is accompanied by a new member – American Philip Dizack on trumpet. This, after 10 years of existence, turns Shai Maestro trio into a quartet. The upcoming album, with a new sound, but the same emotionally rich compositions, will be called ‘Human’.

Shai Maestro – piano

Tal Mashiach – bass

Ofri Nehemya – drums 

El Khat

It creaks and rattles, the screws are loose, but it holds together and moves magnificently. It’s the sound of El Khat – an international deconstruction squad from Tel Aviv led by Eyal El Wahab, a son of the Yemeni Jewish diaspora on a mission to recover his roots.

El Wahab found his epiphanous mojo in a collection of Yemeni Folk and Pop records of the 60’s, sparking a bout of instrument building from bits of wood, saucepans, wire and rope. Soon afterwards came the formation of El Khat along with three friends from Polish, Iraqi and Moroccan backgrounds – adding trumpet, guitar, disco-keyboards and hybrid jazz/junk percussion to El Wahab’s heartfelt vocals and slippery inventions on his homemade bass.

As smoothly stimulating as the eponymous plant, El Khat mix trash and tradition into a timely urban reclamation of a disenfranchised culture.

Eyal El Wahab seer – keara (self-made instruments) & lead vocals

Gilad Halaween – electric guitar, manuela & backing vocals

Iby Iban Wakir – trumpets, mizmar (self-made), organ & vocals

(Ido Chitayat – drums (self-made

ORI 

ORI is a singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, who builds melodic, rhythmic, and repetitive structures using mainly his voice, loops, and beats that travel between intimacy and distant depths.

Over the past two years ORI has performed across Europe and the United States (including SXSW).

Singles from his previous album ‘1986’ were featured in films and TV shows for the likes of Netflix and Blackpills.

His song ‘Solo’ was sampled by Sounwave in Jay Rock’s single “For What It’s Worth”. These days ORI is working on new material.

Riff Cohen

Riff Cohen (Miner) is a singer, creator, musician, director, music producer & art director.

Cohen is considered one of the most innovative artists to come out of Israel in recent years, and is one of the leaders of a new generation of musicians whose creative force comes from searching for their roots.

Cohen sings in French, Hebrew & English, performing mainly in Tel Aviv, Paris and Istanbul. The musical styles Cohen combines in her work are diverse and many – from baroque & classical music to operas and avantgarde, eastern, Persian, North-African music, classic rock, pop, hip-hop, trip-hop, reggae, going all the way to inspiration from her grandmother Fortuna, who was born and raised in the Djerba Island by the coasts of Tunisia. 

These days, Cohen performs with Haggai Fershtman, Atar Miner and Omri Amado, in a new round of shows featuring favorites from her two successful albums, and a taste from her upcoming release.

Ten songs by Riff you must hear: Rotsa Prahim, Dans mon Quartier, A Paris, J’aime, Hélas, Que du Bonheur, Jean Qui Rit, Jean Qui Pleure, Tomber De Haut, Marrakech.

Riff Cohen – Voice and Guitar

Atar Miner – Dj

Full Trunk 

Full Trunk is an eclectic groove quartet that built itself from the ground up, and has been active in the Israeli music scene for the past 7 years. After performing on every possible stage in Israel and even shortly touring around the globe, they succeeded in becoming one of the most fascinating and triumphant musical ensembles in Israel today. 

Full Trunk’s speedy success can be attributed to their songs organically passing from the streets to radio, media, and eventually topping the charts.

A fresh combination of western and eastern sounds, electric beats and live energy, a rock’n’roll groove beautifully entangled with modern afro blues – all brought to life by a charismatic frontman, are what made Full Trunk one of the most sought-after live concert experiences in Israel’s recent years.

 

Gal Nissman – frontman, lyricist, composer, and co-producer –  is a rock’n’roll leader with rare old blues and soul-style vocal abilities. A magnetic performer with the ability to command crowds with his one-of-a-kind energy, whether in front of an audience of thousands or in an intimate lounge setting.

Songs written by Nissman touch sincerely and openly on sensitive topics of social justice struggles, cultural issues, and the Israeli experience – all on a universal level, relatable to listeners from every part of the globe.

Chosen to represent Israel in numerous events around the world, Full Trunk has been praised in magazines and radio plays in the UK, Europe, and the United States. Listeners from every corner of the world can be found regularly tuning in to their streaming channels. 

Recently the band has been working on their upcoming album, from which 5 singles have already dropped (“Another Day” – the theme song of the hit TV series TAAGAD, “Quarter of an Hour”, “Wallack”, “More”, and “Damn Right”). The full length release is due in 2021.

Albums by Full Trunk:

Full Trunk, 2014

Time for Us to Move, 2015

Show Us What You Got, 2017

Gal Nisman – Guitar & singer

 Ofer Vayner – Bass

Ariel Keshet – keyboards

Yotam Elazari – Drums

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