New release brings together musicians from Teheran and Tel Aviv

New release brings together musicians from Teheran and Tel Aviv

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norman lebrecht

October 06, 2022

The Israeli singer Liraz Charhi’s new album, out tomorrow, is a remarkable collaboration between six Tel Aviv musicians and five Teheranis who were flown to Istanbul to work together in strict secrecy.

The Telegraph calls it ‘the riskiest album of 2022’.

in the present women-led ferment in Iran, it may have wider implications.

Comments

  • rentayenta says:

    is the new cd on a Persian or Israeli label

  • Tamino says:

    We need more such pan-human collaborations that express our common humanity in these hyper-divisive times.

  • Elizabeth Owen says:

    How sad that people of a different religion – I assume- have to be flown instrict secrecy. And it’s the 21st century.

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