Oded Tzur Here Be Dragons

180g Vinyl LP Reissue!
Here Be Dragons is the ECM debut of New York based, Tel Aviv born saxophonist Oded Tzur, a strikingly original player and musical storyteller. Tzur’s graceful and fluid tenor sax sound has been influenced by studies with bansuri master Hariprasad Chaurasia, and the concept of raga is subtly embedded in his elegant compositions, played with verve and imagination by his outstanding Israeli-Greek-American jazz group.
"Tzur and his colleagues are definitely on to something." - Downbeat
"Tzur’s penchant for melding East and West is more subtle on ‘Here Be Dragons’ than on his past two releases. The album opens with the title track, a relaxed, but exploratory, meditation allowing each musician ample time to express their individual interpretation. The connected series of ‘Miniature 1,’ ‘Miniature 2,’ and ‘Miniature 3’—the lengthiest running two-and-one-half-minutes—features solo contributions from Hershkovits, Klampanis, and Tzur, respectively, and each is a captivating little beauty. An energized ‘The Dream’ follows and it is the sole hot spot on ‘Here Be Dragons.’ Tzur wrote all the compositions on ‘Here Be Dragons’ except for the closing piece, ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love,’ made famous by Elvis Presley. Each of Tzur’s pieces has hypnotic and inventive qualities and the saxophonist continues to be a master raconteur. His move to ECM assures a wider audience for this deserving artist." - Karl Ackermann, All About Jazz
"The album ’Here Be Dragons' combines turbulent, multi-layered works such as the title track or ‘The Dream’ with atmospheric solo miniatures and ends with an adaptation of the ballad ‘Can't Help Falling In Love’, which has become known as a song by Elvis Presley. Here and at ‘To Hold Your Hand’ the boundaries between song and ‘world music’, Indian raga and jazz, sensitive pop and subtle improvisation are melting away. Special fascination comes from the relaxed, extremely fluid legato vocals of the saxophone, which hovers over the elastically structured foundation of bass, piano and drums. Great recording." - Jens-Uwe Sommerschuh, Saxon Newspaper
"Music with a great emotional depth." - Kristina Dumas, Bavarian Radio
"Even for ECM, this is an album of radical gentleness. Oded Tzur is a New York-based, Israel-born tenor saxophonist making his debut on the label. He’s studied with bansuri master Hariprasad Chaurasia and perhaps raga concepts influenced the music here. Tzur is quite an original player/composer, with few obvious influences in the jazz canon. […] Hershkovits and Tzur are clearly simpatico and the pianist is out front on the disc as much as the saxophonist. Klampanis and American drummer Johnathan Blake are charged with listening carefully, lest the spell be broken. It never is." - Jim Motavalli, New York City Jazz Record
"As always, when Manfred Eicher is sitting at the controls, the notes seem to float, seemingly weightless and yet each in the right place. It is above all the interstices that Tzur and his boys unobtrusively expose, this reduced variety, with which they make seven originals and the Elvis rag ‘Can't Help Falling In Love’ shine from the inside. The fact that Oded Tzur studied the Indian bansur flute master Hariprasad Chaurasia in detail gives the sound of this album a very special touch." - Reinhard Köchl, Jazzthing
"Few saxophonists have a talent comparable to that of Oded Tzur [...] In concert, his minute pianissimos establish an attentive meditation among the audience that gradually opens up a world of beauty, like a light that would slowly descend on everyone. It is that Tzur, who studied ragas with the master of the Bansuri flute Hariprasad Chaurasia, cultivates his art like others their spirituality, with greater transparency, the more abandon. [...] But make no mistake about it: nothing is less simple than keeping such states throughout an album. This one ends with a recovery, risky for anyone (so go after Elvis Presley!), from ‘Can't Help Falling In Love’. Tzur and his family make a little miracle of it and appropriate it so well that in our turn we feel helpless not to fall in love." - Louis-Julien Nicolaou, TV drama
"The saxophonist combines his penchant for tradition with a youthful joy of playing and a musical openness that is extraordinary. But above all, it is his gift to tell stories with his instrument, to create moods that makes him stand out far from the mass of new saxophonists. Of the total of eight tracks, each one conveys its own atmosphere. The title track, the soft ‘20 Years’ and the interpretation of the Elvis number ‘Can't Help Falling In Love With You` at the end of the album are particularly impressive. [...] Together, the quartet creates music that is quiet and yet powerful. But above all, it is unique." - Sebastian Meißner, Sounds And Books
"It is is immediately apparent that the four musicians create a completely new framework and dynamic for Tzur’s compositions. The feel and mood is more relaxed, the tempo’s slower, and the energy implied rather than implicitly stated. In doing space is created within the music for the saxophone to allow the melodic lines to unfurl in their own time. Nothing is rushed, and Oded takes on the role of the master storyteller, and it is indeed this narrative from the saxophone that makes the music so compelling. Supported by his colleagues with such total empathy, the saxophonist is free to allow his tales to flourish, the story told with gentle embellishments and detours along the way. It is perhaps therefore no surprise that the jewels in this particular crown are heard on the longer pieces where the quartet work patiently in creating the perfect setting for the stories that unfold. Always understated with the message coming across strongly, the musicians are able to sketch out aural backdrops to the compositions with Tzur’s lyrical and compelling playing spelling out the theme and soloing with lucid and fluid invention. The tenor saxophone sound is breathtakingly tender, allowing every subtle inflection and tonal variation to be clearly heard. From the opening title track, and the delightful ’20 Years’ with stunning solo from pianist, Hershkovits, you will find yourself totally engaged in what can only be described as exquisite music making, and Oded cements this premise with an equally profound if somewhat surprising reading of ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’. With this his ECM debut, Tzur has perhaps found the perfect home in which to further develop his fascinating journey and exploration of the tenor saxophone; and what a journey this promises to be." - Nick Lea, Jazz Views
"Above all, you will hear catchy, intimate jazz, with not only Tzur’s altogether soft-sounding tenor saxophone, but also Nitai Hershkovits’ piano in the leading role. […] At the end follows a wonderful version of ‘Can’t help falling in love’, which you know from Elvis Presley." - P.DB., De Standaard
"If you want to be heard, you don’t have to shout. Calm and gentle talking also works. Provided you have something to say. The Israeli tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur is such a musician who immediately gets to the listener without appearing to be doing his best to impress in any way. After years of studying Indian playing techniques, among others, Tzur has developed an instantly recognizable sound that is impressive precisely because of its subdued authenticity. […] Three great musicians on piano, bass and drums assist Tzur on this brave journey to arrive at music that has not yet been explored and is completely unique. Music like a penetrating whisper, which, precisely because it is so subtle and, in its gentle fragility, so daring, comes to the listener. Because Tzur’s music is not superficial at all, but comes from his deepest inner self, where it first grew for long years." - Mischa Andriessen, Trouw
"The first thing that may strike you about Israeli saxophonist Oded Tzur’s album ‘Here Be Dragons’ is how much he sounds like a flutist. It’s not surprising when you discover that Tzur, who comes out of the lively Israeli jazz scene, spent the last 13 years studying extensively with India’s bansuri master Hariprasad Chaurasia and developing a unique technique on his instrument. His sax glides through the music with a fluidity and microtonal control that owes much to the subtle intricacies of the classical Indian tradition […] He is joined by a most sympathetic trio of sidemen—Nitai Hershkovits on piano, Petros Klampanis on bass, and Johnathan Blake on drums—who ably support the album’s subdued and meditative atmosphere and help Tzur marry Indian and jazz sensibilities." - Mel Minter, Musically Speaking
"Tzur’s sonorous abilities in melding East and West are subtly displayed on ‘Here Be Dragons’. Tone, timbre, and space hold the set’s foreground in reflective, richly harmonic tunes that are melodically and texturally sumptuous. […] The set closes with a reading of the 1961 Elvis Presley hit, ‘I Can’t Help Falling in Love’ rendered in nearly glacial waltz time, with gorgeous African rhythms from Blake and a sparse bassline from Klampanis that frames both Hershkovits and Tzur, who play it nearly straight. As the album whispers to a resonant conclusion, the tune’s emotional impact –due to Tzur’s yearning tone and poignant understatement — is clear. ‘Here Be Dragons’ deliberately encourages its creators to join themselves to the music itself without ego or flash; that’s a rarity in modern jazz." - Thom Jurek, All About Jazz
"Not often is the jazz world today endowed with a musician whose style feels innovative and unmistakably his own. Yet that is the case with Israeli tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur. His playing is characterized by wonderful doubts and caution, as if every note was a choice of life. Tzur’s unique style contains more than just thought and sincerity. A lot has been written about his studies in India with the flute master Hariprasad Chaurasia, where Tzur learned a lot about microtonality and the slides in pitch that characterize Indian music. […] ‘Here Be Dragons’ is an excellent introduction to Tzur’s music and, not to forget, his excellent group and its hypersensitive interaction." - Anders Pihl, Lira
"Oded Tzur makes an extraordinary sound with his tenor saxophone. I suppose the last time I was quite so struck – entranced might be a better word – with the sound of a specific instrument played by a specific musician was when I first became aware of Arve Henriksen. Just as the Norwegian can sometimes make his trumpet sound closer to the shakuhachi, the ancient Far Eastern bamboo flute, so the Tel Aviv-born, New York-based Tzur gives his tenor a distinctly flute-like timbre, though in his case it is the Indian bansuri which is suggested. […] On piano is fellow Israeli/New Yorker Nitai Hershkovits (he will be remembered from bassist Avishai Cohen’s band), on double bass is the Greek Petros Klampanis, and the drummer is Johnathan Blake, from Philadelphia. It’s a marvellous band, each player bringing their own ‘thing’ but each also dedicated to honouring the distinct character of Tzur’s music. The result is an album that has already spent a large chunk of time in my player and is likely to be making frequent visits for years to come. […] All is slow and gentle, and while the pace might quicken slightly and the gentleness become firmer, ‘Here Be Dragons’ (the whole album, not just this track) operates in a similar, relatively restricted range to, say, Tord Gustavsen’s recordings. Just as Gustavsen, in his own quiet way, can take one by surprise with some urgency and intensity, listen as Tzur’s solo on 20 years nears its climax – I find myself leaning intently towards the hi-fi speakers in response to the quiet storm that the saxophonist has slowly and resolutely conjured up and wondering: wow! How did we get to this level of feeling without me noticing? […] A beautiful musical concept perfectly realised." - Peter Bacon, London Jazz News
"Show walking or even showmanship are not Oded Tzur's thing. With his album, he focuses entirely on closeness and a very personal approach. [...] New York has been the saxophonist's base since 2011. It was there that Oded Tzur also found the ideal line-up for his new quartet. For example, Jonathan Blake on drums provides fine motor impulses. The small ensemble remains highly concentrated on the track even with longer pieces and builds up its epic arcs of tension." - Georg Waßmuth, Südwestrundfunk
"Oded Tzur has created a fantastic work with 'Here Be Dragons'. Together with his outstanding band, the saxophonist opens up a highly aesthetic sound universe." - Matthias Wegner, Deutschlandfunk Kultur
"The usual jazz business, one might assume: acoustic piano, double bass and drums, plus the tenor saxophone of the bandleader Oded Tzur. So far, so well known, but then something is different from the start. It doesn't sound like comparable quartets by Stan Getz, John Coltrane or Jan Garbarek. Rather, one is amazed at the mild and elegant use of the saxophone, flattered by piano sensitivity, spotted and muted drums and a darkly economical bass. There is no hurry, but there is a lot of balanced melodiousness, which develops carefully close to silence. Minimal accent shifts and small solo excursions determine the course of events on this CD. Quietly and hymn-like, everything progresses without zeal. This is beautiful and sensual, but it does without diligence and without the superficial display of instrumental skills. [...] A lot of space is given to the Israeli pianist Nitai Hershkovits, who, after an extensive collaboration with the bassist Avishai Cohen, left his trio to look for new challenges. This band with its dream-transforming interactive communication is an ideal environment for his cool, sparkling playing. [...] In general, the most remarkable thing about this goosebump-generating music is its reduction to emotional cores, which are interpreted, played around, intensified and then elastically dimmed again. In addition, the music of the storyteller Oded Tzur retains something strange with all the catchy, with all the comprehensibility something rather far from jazz. Every time you listen, this seems new, because you are amazed at the feints and finesses that can only be inherent in the seemingly unspectacular." - Ulrich Steinmetzger, Badische Zeitung
"When the new album by Oded Tzur ends after almost 40 minutes with a slow-motion version of the Elvis Presley classic ‘Can't Help Falling In Love’, you will have heard the saxophonist's most restrained, but at the same time most emotional album. An exercise in the art of the ballad, permeated by Indian microtonality, with the ‘20 Years’ composed on the twelfth anniversary of the death of Oded Tzur's father as an impressive highlight." - Bernhard Jugel, Bavarian Radio
"He intones the great Elvis ballad ‘Can't Help Falling In Love’ so tenderly that even the coldest heart melts. That's just the talent of good storytellers." - Thomas Kölsch, Jazz Aesthetics
"In the liner notes to his third album, ‘Here Be Dragons’, the Israeli-born saxophonist Oded Tzur offers a story in which he imagines the famed renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi on a journey bankrolled by Dutch cartographers to find those dragons; part parable, part shaggy dog tale, it ends with a koan: ‘There are no dragons, but here is a song.’ Tzur’s playing is a lot like that story of his, quietly fantastical and full of narrative feints. His tone is light and sweet, with a whispered airiness that’s enhanced by his preference for the tenor’s upper octaves. There’s a vocal quality to his phrasing on ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love,’ the album’s only cover. […] Still, it’s hard not to be drawn to an attractive mystery, and even if it’s not always obvious why Tzur plays what he plays, there’s no denying its power and beauty, with or without dragons." - J.D. Considine, Downbeat
"For this opus whose originality and talent have thrilled critics around the world, the Israeli musician invited three companions: a pianist, a double bass player and a drummer, to interact with him, each one echoing the other three in a particular way. And we understand why, barely published in June 2019, the disc was acclaimed to the point that the Oder Tzur formation began its first international tour. And why again, the audience is literally transported." - Francois Delétraz, The Figaro
"‘Here Be Dragons’ is the curiously forbidding title of one of the sweetest, softest, and yet most complex and musically dense jazz albums I’ve heard in ages. Oded Tzur is both a hugely gifted composer and a tenor saxophonist of uncommonly sweet and lovely tone; on top of that, he is also an arranger who shows deep respect for his sidemen by giving them plenty of room to move and never pushing himself to the front of the band’s sound […] Pianist Nitai Hershkovits, bassist Petros Klampanis, and drummer Jonathan Blake play as if the four musicians share a brain – and the program closes with a version of ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’ that is so supremely delicate it could make you cry." - Rick Anderson, CD Hotlist for Libraries
"Rarely does the last track crown a record. With Oded Tzur it is different. He says goodbye to his listeners with an enchanting version of the Elvis Presley classic ‘Can't Help Falling In Love’. This ballad seems like a dreamy self-talk, especially since the melody variations flow gently and breathily from Tzur's tenor saxophone and are attentively embraced by his partners." - Werner Stiefele, Audio
"This incredible tenderness and depth from the first second takes you totally captive! Oded Tzur, who grew up in Tel Aviv and lives in New York, invites you on an incredibly exciting musical journey of discovery with a soothing calm. [...] Tzur's compatriot, the pianist Nitai Hershkovits, the double bassist Petros Klampanis from Greece and the US drummer Johnathan Blake are the ideal brothers in spirit for these equally subtle and elegant, melodically and harmoniously enchanting pieces that invite to delightful musical interactions. Oded Tzur's exceptional, timbre–rich saxophone lines dig deep into the soul in terms of phrasing – comparisons with John Coltrane are quite appropriate - but he is also a gifted storyteller who always maintains a basic tension even in the most enchanting ballads. [...] ECM CEO Manfred Eicher has once again pushed a very promising project into the starting holes with this excellent quartet." - Peter Füßl, Culture
"Producer Manfred Eicher has produced many albums for his ECM label that are now regarded as jazz classics over the last 50 years. Some have taken time to be recognised as such, others have emerged with ‘classic’ written all over them. Oded Tzur’s ‘Here Be Dragons’ is in the latter category. Masterfully conceived, impeccably executed, Tzur has studied Indian classical music and has brought pitch sliding, microtonal shading and the use of ragas and Indian scales into the forum of jazz […] Tzur’s sharply defined vision of music is subtly stated and his search for aesthetic clarity is shared by each member of his quartet, who have created a music statement that seems set to endure." - Stuart Nicholson, Jazzwise
"His mastery of Indian music has allowed him to acquire a tenor saxophone sound that, although sometimes evoking that of Charles Lloyd, is very personal to him, a soft sound like a whisper, the bewitching song of a mermaid. The songs that Oded Tzur performs with his band [...] evoke powerfully dreamlike musical landscapes. [...] Elegant and modal, the music spreads slowly, like a soothing balm [...] Formerly popularized by Elvis Presley, ‘Can't Help Falling In Love’ becoming prayer here like other compositions of the album. The spiritual dimension of music only makes it more precious to us." - Pierre de Chocqeuse, Jazz Magazine
"Isn't that too soft to be beautiful? Not at all, because it's not soft at all. Only very accurately tinted. A music that comes along particularly quietly and is played with enormous sensitivity. This piece, for example, is based on a tone scale of Indian classical music, a widely differentiated musical culture, with which the saxophonist and bandleader Oded Tzur has dealt in detail. Among other things, he took lessons with the North Indian flute master Hariprasad Chaurasia. And this audibly formed his tone. [...] This music is like a school of listening discernment. What might be considered harmless on the surface is an art of withdrawal, of fine energy dosage. The band with bassist Petros Klampanis, drummer Johnathan Blake and last but not least pianist Nitai Hershkovits fans out breathtakingly wide spaces behind the wind instrument and also shows how much quiet complexity there is in these tones. [...] Something so delicate can still have a great power. This is the case here. Unexpectedly, the energy surges up, the harmonies rush into the open air. There are them here again and again: moments when you hold your breath." - Roland Spiegel, Bavarian Radio
"Who can play the saxophone like Oded Tzur does now? So intense, so introspective, yet so full of tension, and yes, also so intelligent in the construction of further musical arcs prepared with a long breath. No doubt about it: the musician, who grew up in Tel Aviv and is based in New York, is a sparkling diamond of today's jazz scene. And now this album: ‘Here Be Dragons’ together with Nitai Hershkovits, probably one of the best pianists at the moment. Tzur and he understand each other almost dreamily. But it is not only their interaction that makes this recording an event. Both are supported by bassist Petros Klampanis and drummer Johnathan Blake, who weave a very loosely connected rhythm mesh. [...] Tzur has role models – Charles Lloyd is certainly one of them! Both of them meet not only sonically, but above all in his meditatively inspired understanding of music. As the starting point of this almost infinitely spreading music." - Tilman Urbach, Fono Forum
"A sound like a cloud, soft, flexible, full of warmth, yet impenetrable, free of frills. Just air, vibration, intensity – as easily as if the tenor saxophone were dissolving. Oded Tzur from Tel Aviv, currently in New York, has studied traditional Indian ragas with their irregular time signatures and microtonally rich phrasing with a bansuri master, and now he is making their laws the foundation of his own music. On 'Here Be Dragons' she crosses through unexplored zones. Concentration and economy determine every tone of the quartet, the stoic bass figures of Petros Klampanis as well as the subtle harmonic tints of the pianist Nitai Hershkovits or the restrained eruptions of the drummer Johnathan Blake." - Stefan Hentz, Zeit Online
"The feeling that unfolds when listening is that of a great inner loosening. For example, right next to the title track ‘Here Be Dragons’: double bass, piano, drums and tenor saxophone blend into each other like different streams in a stream. You can marvel at the complexity of the music or just let yourself be carried away by the pieces. Until the finale, a completely awkward version of Elvis Presley's ‘Can't Help Falling in Love.’" - Oliver Creutz, Stern
"The drums are now played by Johnathan Blake, who once started in the Mingus Big Band. Blake is a subtle melodist on the drums and fits perfectly with the saxophone rhapsody Oded Tzur. The Israeli pianist Nitai Hershkovits gets a lot of space, who left the trio after an extended collaboration with the bassist Avishai Cohen to look for new challenges. This band with its dream-transforming interactive communication is an ideal environment for his cool, sparkling playing. And the Greek double bassist Petros Klampanis is also one of those who can charge the spaces between the tones with meaning." - Ulrich Steinmetzger, Free Press
"In a year that has started off with so much turmoil, ‘Here Be Dragons’ is an excellent portrait of what is right with the world. Oded Tzur is a tenorist with an instantly recognizable sound that has found with Herskovits, Klampanis and Blake a tight ensemble that flexes with a thorough understanding of jazz’s improvisational journey but also, bringing in flavors from their own backgrounds that makes the saxophonist’s specific musical focus one that is inviting. The tightness and freedom the group exhibits make a future chapter all the more tantalizing." - C.J. Shearn, Jazz Views
"Then something extraordinary happens. Tzur’s journey arrives at… Elvis Presley. The aching melody of ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love,’ unadorned, fits perfectly into the spiritual landscape of this album and beautifully concludes it. Tzur is right. Ragas are universal." - Thomas Conrad, Jazz Times
"Since the excellent 'Translator's Note' (2017), Oded Tzur has slightly revamped his quartet. Petros Klampanis (double bass) being joined by Nitai Hershkovits (piano) and Johnathan Blake (drums). When these three take off, whether on the monumental title track or the epileptic ‘The Dream‘, we start dreaming of Keith Jarrett from ’Changeless'. As for Oded Tzur, li is on a cloud. It acts as the trigger for everything else, that is to say a music of the intimate, sometimes Himalayan peaks." - David Koperhant, Jazz News
"Tzur has a very personal sound to his playing which encompasses a patient, reserved feel, and his music is subtle and graceful. His writing, combined with intelligent and intuitive performances from the quartet as a whole, makes for a resoundingly beautiful and meditative album. Inspired by his extensive studies from 2007 onwards with bansuri master Hariprasad Chaurasia, Tzur has mastered the graceful slides of Indian classical music and brought raga’s sense of pitch fluidity and microtonal shading into a jazz context. […] The ragas deployed in the pieces ‘Here be dragons’, ‘20 years’, and ‘The Dream’ are of stunning skill and beauty, Tzur’s creations being the highlight of the whole album. The composer and his band have a wonderful ability to tell a story within the music they are making. It’s as if they are sharing their journey with the listener. One feels involved, a part of what is happening. It is, of course, the musical interaction within the group that makes this happen in such a profound way. Hershkovits, who took over the piano role in Tzur’s group from Shai Maestro, shines throughout the whole session. Greek bassist Klampanis and U.S. drummer Blake also bring their own creative empathy, making for a unified, spellbinding performance from this wonderfully sublime and expressive quartet." - Mike Gates, UK Vibe
"Occasionally, though rarely, music comes into the world that makes sense from the very first second and whose coherence does not wane in its course. ‘Here Be Dragons', the ECM debut of the New York saxophonist Oded Tzur, is just such music. The humility and modesty with which Tzur and his fellow musicians interact here at the highest level are of rare urgency and immerse the already contemplative compositions in an even more contemplative light [...] The compositional depth is secretly manifested in this music. The quartet first slowly picks up the tempo and timbre of the title track, before a motif carried by piano and saxophone in unison creeps inconspicuously into the picture and evokes folkloric sounds in Aeolian mode. Fantastically beautiful." - Friedrich Kunzmann, Concerto
"Oded Tzur is the saxophonist of the moment, an alternative to the long line of virile tenor saxophonists from John Coltrane to ‘Saxophone Colossus‘ Sonny Rollins. Tzur has developed a sound that, with fragile melancholy and meditative melodies, would be perfect as a soundtrack to images of currently empty streets and orphaned clubs and bars. [...] a musician who has not only found a whole, discreet voice of his own, but has created a downright poetic band sound on the edge of silence with his quartet – and yet also masters the kitsch curve with confidence in the Elvis Presley ballad ‘Can't Help Falling In Love’." - Heribert Ickerott, Jazz Podium
"The Israeli tenor saxophonist from New York was nourished by Indian classical music, Jewish tradition, folklore, blues, and jazz obviously. What is found in his music, narrative, fluid and very refined. In quartet with Nitaï Hershkovits on piano, Petros Klampanis on double bass and Johnathan Blake on drums, accomplices of very high quality. [...] What is formed in this alchemist's athanor, and that he offers us, is an atmospheric jazz, fluid, elegant, soft, which takes us beyond the known seas, where beauty reigns supreme." - Jean-Claude Vantroyen, Le Soir
"More than ever, Tzur's playing on the tenor saxophone is reminiscent of a flute in its lightness and grace, which is certainly due to the study of Indian classical music with the master flutist Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. His newly developed technique, which has already shaped the previous albums and enables him to implement Indian microtonality on the saxophone, comes to the ice here in an unobtrusiveness that you hardly notice it. In pianist Nitaï Hershkovits, the Greek bassist Petros Klampanis and especially drummer Johnathan Blake, Tzur has found ideal partners who go his ‘middle path’ with him. Music, as innovative as it is beautiful." - Janis Obodda, Hifi Stars

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• 180g Vinyl
• Audiophile High Quality Pressing
• Recorded at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, June 2019
• Made in Germany