G M friends... International music to begin the day...lovely ...amazing .. Israel classical music group Shye Ben Tzur and group performs at 5th International Dance and Music Festival organised by ICCR in Delhi. Shye Ben Tzur is an Israeli composer/producer/poet and performer who lives in India and Israel. He composes Qawwalis, instrumental and devotional music in Hebrew, Urdu and Hindi. Ben Tzur has been living and creating music in India and Israel over a decade. He first visited India while searching for a classical Indian music teacher. After years of studying Indian classical music in the traditional manner, Ben Tzur began to compose traditional Sufi Qawwali music in his own language, Hebrew. Qawwali is a form of ecstatic Muslim devotional music. After attending a concert in Jerusalem by the Indian classical musicians Hari Prasad Chaurasia and Zakir Hussain, Ben Tzur became interested in Indian music, which brought him into contact with Qawwali. He went to Ajmer in India (the site of the mausoleum of the Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishti. In 2004, he performed at Jahan-e-Khusrau, an international Sufi music festival held in New Delhi in the spring annually since 2001. Shye Ben Tzur performs around the world] with his ensemble. https://youtube/watch?v=ENA_PMCLe5M
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 05:01:53 +0000