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Gilad Atzmon Presents Artie Fishel And The Promised Band For more information, to request a review copy, images or to interview |
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and almost incidentally, the music is excellent" Metro Life
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"Gilad is awalking blizzard of controversy" Time Out
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"Rear fluency and innovation" London Metro
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"Spike Jonze meets Frank Zappa" The Observer
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"Totally unique" Evening Standard
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Gilad Atzmon's Books "A biting satire on Jewish identity, Zionist politics and sex." The Observer "A fusion of anti-Israeli conspiracy theory and adolescent sexual farce -Mordechai Vanunu meets 'American Pie' - which involves crynogenically maintained war criminals, Mossad agents, and a trumpeter who can bring women to orgasm just by playing a single note." Time Out Gilad Atzmon's Music "The work of an independent and unruly spirit still in turbulent evolution." The Guardian "Witty, wierd, bolshie and beautiful, this is a great album." Time Out "This album feels like a spell in a nightclub at the edge of oblivion." |
Morning StarJazz jihadby Rickard Bagely31 October 2006 INTERVIEW: Award-winning jazz musician GILAD ATZMON talks about his freaky alter ego Artie Fishel. JUST who is Gilad Atzmon? A cheesy question, but the answer truly depends on who you ask. One critic described his saxophone playing as personifying the agony and struggle of a generation at war. His 2003 album Exile grabbed album of the year the BBC jazz awards. But he's also been accused by zionists of being a Holocaust denier, an anti-semite and selfhating Jew - all charges which he has articulately rebutted. His website, for example, features a section entitled 1,001 lies about Gilad Atzmon, where he has systematically argued against the claims levelled at him. He was raised in a right-wing zionist Israeli family, but he is now a passionate supporter of the Palestinian cause. He describes himself as an ex-Israeli and an ex-Jew. Speaking to Atzmon at his north London home, it seems that, while he knows what he isn't, he is not quite certain who he actually "is," apart from being a human being. "I'm a jazz musician. I play the saxophone. I don't feel hatred at all," he says. "I just don't think in blood categories. I'm not interested in it." Many of us would probably share his opinion, but, in the paranoid and often aggressive hothouse that surrounds the question of Israel and the concept of Jewishness in the 21st century, identity is an issue that he is forced to confront daily. His prolific writing and statements on the identity of zionism and Judaism continue to provoke controversy, as well as extreme hostility from some quarters. ... To read this entire interview (pdf): Jazz jihad |