Exile

Gilad Atzmon

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 6, 2003)
• Original Release Date: May 6, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Enja Justin Time
• ASIN: B00008ZZ7Y
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #191,201 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dal'ouna on the Return

2. Al-Quds

3. Jenin

4. Ouz

5. Orient House

6. Land of Canaan

7. Exile

8. Côte Méditerranée

9. Epilogue

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Musician as a leader, June 26, 2003

By	nadav haber (jerusalem Israel) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

With this wonderful album Atzmon establishes his role as a musician who is involved in what goes on in the world, and is not afraid to express himself.
The music on this CD is not political - it is rather a beautiful combination of Arab music, East-European jewish music, and Balkan music - all soaked with Jazz sensibility. Atzmon Clarinet playing is simply amazing - his tone on this small instrument is as big as a tenor sax. Atzmon's saxophone playing - here he plays alto and soprano - is highly original, with welcome traces of Coltrane influences. Everything here is top quality - the Palestinian singers (Reem Kelani and Dhafer Youssef), the Gypsy guitar and violin players, and Atzmon's quartet that provide the Jazzy linking glue throughout.
But Atzmon goes further than that, and states that the CD is dedicated to the Palestinian right of return. This is part of the package, he insists.
Atzmon's attitude elevates the role of the musician from a mere entertainer to that of a leader, realizing that the moral commitment of the musician should not be less than that of a writer, painter, sculpturer, or any other true artist.
This is a breakthrough CD both musically and conceptually. It should be heard by every serious person.

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous and Unique, May 21, 2003

By	Karin M Hussain (Highland Park, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This album is a musical prayer for the Palestinian Right of Return. It features a Palestinian woman singer Reem Kelani whose voice is incredible, singing side to side with the best jazz flute and clarinet player of our time, Israeli expatriot Gilad Atzmon. It raises two simple questions regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine: How is it that people who have suffered so much and for so long can inflict so much pain on the Other? How can Zionists, who are motivated by a genuine desire to return be so blind when it comes to the very similar Palestinian desire? The questions are posed musically, by taking haunting Hebrew folk melodies and changing them into songs about the Palestinian intifada. The tunes are vibrant, not sorrowful. It is a joyous jazzy mix of Klezmer and Arabian sound. "Exile" is a celebration of being a stranger in a land which is not one's own.

28 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cambridge censor notwithstanding-this soulful journey...., February 24, 2004

By	Desertwriter "bookworm" (Western) - See all my reviews

How can one not mention the suffering of being in EXILE when talking about the music/musicians of EXILE? How can one not talk about the deep place that Gilad's music evokes when he is an exiled Israeli due to the very thing which "Cambridge" wants to silence. Perhaps we should all cease any creative efforts used to expiate our sorrow, grief and rage at the racist violence which goes unmentioned in American media when it whitewashes unmitigated Zionist arrogance. I am a non-Zionist Jew who mourns the "latest" Palestinian crucifixion.