No two musical sisters could be more different

No two musical sisters could be more different

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norman lebrecht

October 11, 2011

The younger sister of Noa, Israel’s biggest world music star after Ofra Haza, has launched her own career.

Odeya Nini, 13 years younger, saw her big sister leave home when she was three, she tells Haaretz.

Her work is on another plane altogether – in the contemplative outer reaches of contemporary classical music – long silences, that sort of thing – the Whitney Museum point where post-mod composition meets post-modernist art.

Here‘s a video clip. And here’s another, working with Christian Marclay.

And here are the two sisters together, from Noa’s website:

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