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- country:Israel
- region:Mediterranean
- style(s):Jewish, Sacred
- label:Nana Disc Ltd
- type:Large Ensemble
- gender:male
- instrumentation:vocal, a cappella, percussion
- artist posted by:Olamalé International Booking
Line up
- Avraham Cohen (Vocal )
- Elijahu Edrey (Vocals )
- Joseph Abehzira (Vocals )
- Lev Elman (Percussion)
- Netanel Zaguri (Vocals )
- Niro Abeqassis (Oud vocals )
- Raphael Bensoussa (Vocals)
- Shlomo (Ben Lulu )
- Simon Cohen (Vocals )
- Yair Harel (Vocals )
- Yehuda Edrey (Vocals )
- Yogev Levi (Ney )
- Yonathan Erez (Vocals)
Over the past seven years, The Piyut Ensemble has been formulating its unique choral style, drawing inspiration from the North African and Middle Eastern traditions of jewish liturgical poetry, synagogue melodies, and a free-ranging search through the world’s music.
For the past two years, since the singer Yosef Abehsira became a member of the Ensemble, we found ourselves diving deep down into the very source of the liturgical poetry of the Abehsira dynasty of rabbis, learning the mystical poems of the Tafilalet region of southern Morocco, with their special musical tradition. Gradually, the members of the Piyut Ensemble have created their own original, fresh interpretation, based on a vibrant circle of multiple voices and a rhythmical, festive and intense clapping.
The Piyut Ensemble has performed at the Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival (2014) and several other piyyut festivals; with the New Jerusalem Orchestra and with Berry Sakharof in the Ahavat Olamim and Maqam Jerusalem programs. Album release 2017. Their debut internationally was at WOMADELAIDE 2017 with great success.