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Hi all,

Good to see the forum working again!

I just put up a new sound clip on my "myspace" spot. It's the 4th tune, the bottom one listed there, called Ma'ayan (Spring like water spring, in Hebrew). It's 3 minutes of a kind of jungle romp, 4 tracks of me playing first on cajon, then dahola, bongos, and a wooden xylophone I just built. Was done in a hurry at a local small studio, with no plan and no edit.
Hope you enjoy.

P.S. The foxy lady in the black and white pics in the slideshow there is my mother - but way back, when she was a jazz singer, so don't get no ideas.

Here's the link:

http://www.myspace.com/yonatanbarrashi

All the best to yas,

yoni

wow!!! on all points, Yoni. Your Mom was (is) a stunning beauty, and the clip shows you haven't missed a touch with advancing age. . Those doubles are faster than ever.

Thank you so much Congatick! I hope all is well with you, and I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

All the best,

yoni

Yoni,, I just got the chance to sit down for a few minutes and listen to your music!!
I love your ensemble of creative acoustic jazz.. All elements left acoustically pure without effects, the musicianship high caliber with classical technique and style, but freely explorative.
Very nice..
Dave

Hi Yoni GREAT PLAYING MY BROTHER!!....HEY U HAVE TO CHECK OUT THE NEW CD BY BEN LAPIDUS....IT'S CALLED "HERENCIA JUDEA" WHERE HE DID 14 ARRANGMENTS WITH aFRO CUBAN RHYTHMS TO jEWISH SONGS LIKE DAYENU AND "SON dE HANUKAH' IT IS INCREDIBLE, TO HEAR....Johnny Conga...

Yoni, Very nice sound! I could listen to that all day and not be bored. Nice work.

Take care
Luis
T

Great Track once again Yoni
Just checking your myspce I see you are one of the lucky ones who has had a chance to checkout the Volcano Percussions Congas and Bongos.
Id be interested to know how they compare to the like of SoS Matt smiths or Original Gon Bops ? How did you like them .

Sorry for going off topic here .

Marco

Wow, thank you for the beautiful replies!

Johnny I will have to check out that CD by Ben Lapidus. Thanks for that info!

Marco, I used to have a gon bops original tumba, but that was before 20 years and I can't now make a fair comparison with the Volcano congas I played a couple years ago. Matt Smiths I'm not familiar with. I still think most of the sound is in the hands - you can hear great drummers make bad drums sound great, and bad drummers can make great drums sound lousy - but those Volcanos did sound super dyno to me, I never heard better. Wish I could have played on them more. The chance I had was a great gift from 'Massivdrums'...

All the best,

Yoni

I know exactly what you mean regarding the hands . But it good to hear your veiws on those beautiful Tumbadoras.
also good to see your work and colaborations music is morphing all the time .