The album is not yet out that it is already a sensation! See you on May 13th:<\/p>\n
“This is a bewitching session from the unique Tel Aviv-born improviser and composer <\/em>Oded Tzur<\/em><\/strong> – a performer with a tenor saxophone sound as impressionistically recognisable as Jan Garbarek’s was when he first emerged in the early 1970s.<\/em> John Fordham<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The album is not yet out that it is already a sensation! See you on May 13th: “This is a bewitching session from the unique Tel Aviv-born improviser and composer Oded Tzur – a performer with a tenor saxophone sound as impressionistically recognisable as Jan Garbarek’s was when he first emerged in the early 1970s. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oded-tzur-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17244,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17089\/revisions\/17244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLike Garbarek, Tzur favours timbre and tonal nuance over postboppish loquacity, and also sheres the Norwegian’s interest in Indian classical music – developed in Tzur’s case by extensive study with the legendary bansuri flute master Hariprasad Chaurasia, whose sound he can echo with uncanny fidelity on the tenor. <\/em>
\nIsabela<\/em><\/strong> deploys the same eloquent New York quartet lineup as on 2020’s ECM debut for Tzur, <\/em>Here Be Dragons<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em>
\nA Tzur-composed raga, minimally sketched in on the murmuring, rapturously-swelling opener, reappears in various guises throughout this suite-like five-part tracklist. Tzur’s tenor sounds less like a bansuri flute than a hybrid of a french horn’s warmth and a bassoon’s woody edginess on the yearning, faintly Charles Lloydish ‘Noam’, which also features an exquisitely free-floating Nitai Hershkovits piano solo in its time-suspended central section. “The Lion Turtle” is a folksily engaging dance over a rocking vamp, and the title track opens in a low-end tenor undertone against the most diaphanous of piano promptings – hypnotically maintaining that bewitched murmur for nearly eight minutes until Tzur anthemically raises his volume and emphasis as the piano ans Johnathan Blake’s cymbals swell.<\/em>
\nA gem in the playbook of doing more with less, <\/em>Isabela<\/em><\/strong> looks sure to push Oded Tzur’s already head-turning sound and sensibility way up the ratings.”<\/em><\/p>\n