This is the Afro-Semitic Experience

Warren Byrd and David Chevan

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 27, 2002)
• Original Release Date: April 5, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hmg Records
• ASIN: B0000645EF
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #212,710 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Eliyahu HaNavi

2. Tashlikh

3. Sha Shtil

4. Better Get Hit in Your Soul

5. Nefesh

6. Aalafiya/Shir LaShalom

7. Water From an Ancient Well

8. Waters of Babylon

Editorial Reviews

from the liner notes by Willard Jenkins--contributor to JazzTimes, Down Beat, Jazz Report, Jazz Education Journal, and Africana.com. He is a producer-broadcaster for BET Jazz, WPFW radio in Washington, DC, and XM Satellite Radio.

A recording rich with the spirit of shared experiences and true brotherhood in its execution, noble and thought provoking.

Product Description

Chevan and Byrd's third CD offers a mix of Jewish and African-American music both sacred and secular. This time they are joined by The Afro-Semitic Experience, an ensemble dedicated to preserving, promoting and expanding the rich cultural and musical heritage of the Jewish and African diaspora. Imagine a band that understands and can present interpretations of music from traditions as rich as Gospel, Klezmer, Nigunim, Spirituals, and Swing and you have the Afro-Semitic Experience. This is a group that is as comfortable playing a freylakh as they are swinging a blues, that knows how to play either a bulgar or some funk. Multi-cultural soul. On this, the group's first album, they present a set that travels the Afro-Semitic Experience in all its multi-dimensional splendor.