Koby Israelite

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saints and dates 03:37 Tools
Dance Of The Idiots 02:48 Tools
I Used To Be Cool 05:17 Tools
Toledo Five Four 04:34 Tools
In the Meantime 06:22 Tools
If That Makes Any Sense 05:47 Tools
2nd of Tamuz 03:36 Tools
Happylouge 01:44 Tools
Diego 01:51 Tools
Truah 04:32 Tools
Battersea Blues 08:00 Tools
Rampel 06:31 Tools
Zafiel 04:41 Tools
Ezgadi 05:17 Tools
Nisroc 04:56 Tools
Khabiel 06:29 Tools
Neyef 05:54 Tools
Chayo 06:28 Tools
Rachmiel 08:09 Tools
a band of gypsies 04:18 Tools
Solitude 03:04 Tools
Wanna Dance? 00:00 Tools
Wanna Dance¿ 05:36 Tools
Dror Ikra 03:04 Tools
Return Of The Idiots 02:20 Tools
It Is Not A War Here 07:05 Tools
Ethnometalogy 05:07 Tools
Johnny Has No Cash No More 01:49 Tools
For Emily 06:25 Tools
Just Cliches 02:39 Tools
12 Bar (Mitzvah) Blues 04:34 Tools
Hiriya On My Mind 04:54 Tools
No Room For Anarchy 03:27 Tools
Psychosemitic 04:32 Tools
Goodbye Unit 26 03:31 Tools
Bulgarian Boogie 04:10 Tools
Rural Ghost 02:18 Tools
Crayfish Hora (Suite Part 4) 03:02 Tools
Herem 05:08 Tools
Mood Swings/Smile 05:12 Tools
East of Nashville 03:10 Tools
Why Don't You Take My Brain and Sell It to the Night (feat. Annique) 02:16 Tools
Blues from Elsewhere (Suite Part 1) 03:50 Tools
Accordion Is the New Guitar (Suite Part 2) 02:42 Tools
Europa? 02:49 Tools
The Dreams Thief (Suite Part 3) 03:36 Tools
Joy 05:48 Tools
My Way the Right Way 04:08 Tools
Papa Don't Trill 05:30 Tools
Peckham Rai 03:20 Tools
Adon Haselichot 03:42 Tools
Easy Listening 05:34 Tools
Two Colonels 04:16 Tools
Out to Lounge 05:31 Tools
Shmekeria 04:31 Tools
Almost There But Not Quite 03:00 Tools
Under the Apricot Tree 04:48 Tools
Self Hating Blues 02:53 Tools
Paulina In the Skype 03:54 Tools
Europa (Klawstukas) 02:49 Tools
Two Stone Down 02:15 Tools
Just Like Everybody Else 06:15 Tools
Kashmir 05:21 Tools
Subterranean Homesick Blues (feat. Annique) 03:07 Tools
Lemi Evke (feat. Mor Karbasi) 04:51 Tools
Toledo Five Four (Zemirot le Shabbat) 04:34 Tools
Overture 02:42 Tools
Subterranean Homesick Blues 03:06 Tools
The King's Laughter 04:37 Tools
Peardition Girls 04:22 Tools
Diego (Hora Miresei) 01:51 Tools
The Moroser 04:07 Tools
Why Don't You Take My Brain And Sell It To The Night 04:51 Tools
Word Travels Fast 02:26 Tools
Arrival Of The Telepather 02:15 Tools
Circus Mayhem 04:27 Tools
Bald Patch 02:41 Tools
Hell's Kitchen 01:26 Tools
Molly's Sacrifice 04:06 Tools
Kashmir (Bonus Track) 05:22 Tools
Lemi Evke 04:51 Tools
The Saddest Joke Ever 05:23 Tools
Meeting An Angel 03:57 Tools
Into The Subconscious 01:42 Tools
Last Laugh 00:52 Tools
Jacky Jones 01:24 Tools
Riqqoud 06:31 Tools
Why don't you take my brain and sell it to the night? 02:16 Tools
Music for Lovers 02:16 Tools
Milf Cake 05:12 Tools
The Chase 05:12 Tools
Night And Day 05:12 Tools
Ajde Jano 05:12 Tools
Booy Booy Booy 05:12 Tools
Handful of Nothing 05:12 Tools
The Rest of Now 05:12 Tools
Subterranean homesick blues (feat. Annique - vocal) 03:06 Tools
La Foule 05:12 Tools
Why don't you take my brain and sell it to the night (feat. Annique - vocal) 02:16 Tools
Kashmir (Tigran Aleksanyan - duduk) 05:21 Tools
Lullaby 05:12 Tools
Why Did I Kill Aleksandra Andrejewna 04:56 Tools
Mood Swings / Smile 05:12 Tools
01 - Rampel 06:31 Tools
Just About Managing 06:28 Tools
Lemi evke (feat. Mor Karbasi - vocal / Tigran Aleksanyan - duduk) 04:51 Tools
12 Bar (Mitzvah) - Blues 05:21 Tools
Blues from Elsewhere (Suite, Pt. 1) 05:12 Tools
Crayfish Hora (Suite, Pt. 4) 01:44 Tools
Neyet 04:51 Tools
02 - Zafiel 04:40 Tools
03 - Czgadi 05:16 Tools
05 - Neyef 05:54 Tools
04 - Nisroc 04:56 Tools
Accordion Is the New Guitar (Suite, Pt. 2) 01:44 Tools
Kurczak 06:28 Tools
Kurzcak 06:28 Tools
Kashmir - Bonus Track 06:28 Tools
06 - Khabiel 06:28 Tools
The Dreams Thief (Suite, Pt. 3) 01:44 Tools
12 Bar Mitzvah Blues 04:34 Tools
07 - Chayo 06:27 Tools
Czyadi 06:27 Tools
For Emily (Dedicated To Our Dear Freind Emily Craddock 1976-2002) 06:25 Tools
Aizoz 06:25 Tools
Xatiel 06:25 Tools
Europa¿ 02:49 Tools
Happylogue 01:44 Tools
02.Toledo Five Four (Zemirot le Shabbat) 01:44 Tools
04.Diego (Hora Miresei) 01:44 Tools
Still Laughing 00:27 Tools
Lemi Evke למי אבכה (feat. Mor Karbasi) 01:44 Tools
Why Don't You Take My Brain And Sell It To The Night? (feat. Annique) 05:12 Tools
Accordion is the new guitar 00:30 Tools
Ehnometalogy 00:27 Tools
Why Don't You Take My Brain and Sell It to the Night? (featuring Annique) 00:27 Tools
Subterranean Homesick Blues (featuring Annique) 00:27 Tools
11.Dance of the Idiots 00:27 Tools
Mood Swings,smile 05:12 Tools
Wanna Dance- 05:12 Tools
Accordian Is The New Guitar (Suite Part 2) 05:12 Tools
Boycott Israelite 03:06 Tools
Lemi Evke (featuring Mor Karbasi) 05:12 Tools
09.Truah 03:06 Tools
10.2nd of Tamuz 03:06 Tools
03. koby Israelite - saints and dates 03:06 Tools
12.Happylouge 03:06 Tools
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Israeli-born Koby Israelite, now based in London, is a highly gifted and versatile multi-instrumentalist. He studied piano at the Tel Aviv conservatoire from the age of nine, and became interested in playing percussion at fourteen, at first playing on a make-shift kit of old drums and a broken cymbal. He started playing with local bands at school, playing punk covers with Hebrew lyrics. At seventeen, Israelite started studying drums with "The David Rich Drumming School" in Tel Aviv, studying for a full two years. Deeply into heavy metal music, he played in the first speed metal band in Israel. But inspiration throughout his drumming education also came heavily from jazz, and Koby Israelite lists Tony Williams, Peter Erskine and Jack DeJohnette as major influences. Following a three year stint in the Israeli army, Koby Israelite moved to England, at first working as a part-time musician while doing a variety of other jobs to keep body and soul together. By 1994, he made the move to working full time, at first as a session drummer, recording and touring with a variety of artists, gigging five to six nights a week. Finally, in 1999 Israelite was in a position to also start writing and recording his own music. His first major project was the album "Tequila Girls", a sophisticated Latin pop flavoured album co-written with Adam Rogers that so nearly resulted in a major record label contract. However, Koby Israelite by this time realized that he and his music would not sit well with the creativity-devoid ethos of the majors, and he certainly lacks the commonly required qualifications of the age of talentlessness, imaginationlessness and creativitylessness. In 2001, Israelite's debut solo album, "I Think Therefore I'm Not Sure" followed. This project wasn't tied to any particular genre, style, or other pre-conceived formula and resulted in a fresh fusion of funk, rock, Middle Eastern, and tango. An uncompromisingly personal work, it featured outstanding guest musicians in the form of Sid Gauld on trumpet, Stefan Redtenbacher on bass and Gilad Atzmon on clarinet and sax. Early that same year, Koby Israelite attended a performance by Romanian gipsy band, Taraf de Haidouks and was instantly hooked. This was, in a way, a discovery of new roots (his mother being Romanian). Eventually, this was to lead to the inspiration for Koby Israelite's next album, the just released "Dance of the Idiots" on the Tzadik label. This is a finely crafted, highly personal and complex exploration of Jewish music, the Jewish experience, even the human condition. Utterly genre-defying, it is a fusion of just about every form of Jewish music, plus rock/heavy metal, jazz, Middle Eastern, Balkan, and more. In both scope and innovation, this album is Beatlesque. A kind of 21st century, Jewish-oriented and inspired "Revolver", "Sergeant Pepper" or White Album. (Others have also likened it to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" in its impact.) Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.