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- From: jonm@Ingres.COM (Don't Judge a book by your cover)
- Subject: Re: Folk music from Israel
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.095441.18650@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Summary: Artist recommendation
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- Keywords: israel folk pop music
- Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department - Mosaic Group
- References: <1992Dec9.141436.4875@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> <1992Dec16.080957.25305@netcom.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 09:54:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.080957.25305@netcom.com>, eamon@netcom.com (Charles E Taggart) writes...
- >In article <1992Dec9.141436.4875@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> prante@radium.informatik.uni-bonn.de writes:
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- >A friend of mine (who's from Israel) just gave me a birthday present of a
- >tape by an Israeli artist called Yehuda Poliker. Apparently this guy is a
- >pretty huge star over there, and his concerts draw big crowds.
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- Yehuda Poliker I believe was born in Greece/Cyprus and then moved to Israel
- when he was young. Therefore he still has a lot of Greek roots.
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- >I haven't had a chance to listen to all of it yet, but what I've heard is
- >excellent. I wouldn't exactly call it folk, but there are strong ethnic
- >and folk strains to it. Mandolins, bouzoukis and shawms blend with
- >electric guitars and drums. Pretty wild and funky so far, and I've yet to
- >come across any vocals. Great stuff!
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- >The album I have is called FOR YOUR BLUE EYES, and the label is NMC. It
- >apparently is available on CD, although I have a cassette. Other than
-
- I think you will find that the cassete is called "Your Eyes". If you post
- the words I could translate them for you. Saves me sitting down with the
- cassette.
-
- He does this great duet with Arik Einstein about Olim.
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