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Palestinian multi-instrumentalist Zafer Tawil, performs alongside friend, collaborator, and oud player Rabbi Zachi Asher – a set of sorrow songs, traditional and new, that give voice to the brokenness and yearnings of our days.
Jerusalem born Zafer Tawil is fluent on the violin, oud, qanun, percussion and nay. He is the most in demand musician of the Brooklyn Arabic music community, and he is the most joyful. He has toured internationally with prestigious artists and composed for film and dance, lending his signature musical accent to an eclectic array of productions.
Rabbi Zachi Asher has spent more than twenty years pursuing the oud and Arabic maqam. He is an expert in the literature and music of Hebrew piyut, song-poems from the Arab Jewish communities of Syria, Iraq, Morocco, etc. As the bandleader for his Epichorus ensemble, Asher has collaborated with masterful artists including his teacher Bassam Saba, Yacouba Sissoko, Alsarah, and composed four albums exploring new influences in Maqam music that honor the traditions and aesthetics of the old sound. Asher is the creative director of the Temenos Center for the Arts, a New York 501c3, and has been a vocal supporter of Palestinian liberation.
Performing together in days of great distress, the two present a rare vision of collaborative futures. At the crossroads of art and justice, music and spirituality, their laughter and stories are a welcome corner of the world to settle into for a night, and dream of the world that's slowly on its way.
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