Keeping low in Haifa
To counterfeit an oft-quoted triadic truism, song is song is music. In a context of art, that intimates that we should try to drive transparent of clean partitioned genre or character categorizations, and keep an open mind and, some-more important, open ears. That, in a nutshell, is a approach Sefi Zisling views his craft.
Most would straightforwardly associate a 35-year-old trumpeter with a jazzier side of a sonic tracks. However, closer investigation of his oeuvre to date reveals copiousness of try that seems usually loosely compared with jazz, and lots some-more that is distant private from improvisational or blues- or swingbased sounds.
Zisling’s heterogeneous mind-set will be on uncover during a SoLow Festival in Haifa in only over a week’s time (November 7-8), when he performs there with his stream band.
Zisling comes opposite as a peaceful soul, and does not seem to be in a precipitate to make himself listened or pull his approach to a front of a stage. That competence be a reason it took him until final year to finally put out his entrance record as leader, Beyond The Things we Know, on that he was ably supported, and prompted, by kick musician-record writer Yuval Havkin, improved famous as Rejoicer. That was tighten to a entertain of a century after he initial pulpy his immature lips opposite a coronet mouthpiece.
“I started on wail when we was 10,” he recalls.
He got copiousness of support from his amicable and patrimonial feel to enter a low-pitched fray. “Yes, there was a lot of support for that where we grew up. That was on Kibbutz Ein Harod Meuhad in a Jezreel Valley.” Zisling’s relatives wanted their brood to get themselves a hands-on low-pitched education. “There are 9 siblings, and we have an comparison hermit who plays saxophone and one who plays trumpet. So, we suppose, we wanted to follow in their footsteps. we suspicion it was unequivocally cold to play trumpet.”
The tot Zisling schooled a basics of exemplary music, nonetheless he shortly perceived a peaceful pull into unequivocally opposite fields of low-pitched exploration. “One of my brothers changed to New York, and he used to send me CDs with jazz, slit and funk. There were a lot of Blue Note recordings among them.” Trumpeter Blue Mitchell was on a Blue Note roster, and he became one of Zisling’s initial sources of inspiration, nonetheless a youngster was penetrating to widespread his low-pitched net as distant and far-reaching as probable from a word go. “I also got into [pioneering fashionable saxophonist] John Coltrane and [soul icon] James Brown. we engrossed a lot of despondency and jazz.”
The immature trumpeter shortly began blending it with other budding musicians during a internal conservatory, before furthering his preparation during a Thelma Yellin High School of (Abir Sultan) (Abir Sultan) a Arts. “That’s where we unequivocally got into jazz.” But Zisling was always looking to widen his artistic borders. “I was deliberate a bit of an oddity during a propagandize since we wanted to play despondency and other stuff. It’s a same today.”
Zisling’s bio includes a engorgement of gigs and recording sessions with a different operation of acts, such as a free-roaming Ramirez Brothers, funk-psychedelic act a Kutiman Orchestra and rocker Alon Eder. The trumpeter is positively no jazz snob. “I’m not a straight-ahead jazz player,” he notes. “Groove has always meddlesome me.” And he got off to a drifting start in that line of low-pitched pursuit. “When we was 17 we met and assimilated [RBsoul outfit] Funk’N’stein. When we was still in high propagandize I’d play gigs during Barby and all sorts of clubs that we couldn’t get into as a member of a audience, since we was too young,” he chuckles.
That was a full 18 years ago, and Zisling is now a tie on a internal song stage and, in between ancillary all kinds of other acts, he is prepared to get his possess low-pitched word out there. His sophomore recording is in a works, and his SoLow uncover will embody numbers from a entrance recover and a subsequent offering. “I am always on a surveillance for new things, things that competence warn me,” he says. The SoLow throng is clearly in for an engaging ride.
Elsewhere on a packaged festival register we can find soulfunk- slit black Ester Rada, maestro unusual cocktail organisation Ziknei Tzefat, rappers Echo, Damsel Is Depressed and Avraham Lagassa, and reduction structured ware from a likes of Sam Hardali, Oren Amitai’s Stitches and subterraneous foursome Mines.
For tickets and some-more information: http://www.solow-haifa.com
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