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Topic: Shlomo Bar & Habrera Hativeet -- Faithful Waters -- 2 CDs -- 2 Credits

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Subject: Shlomo Bar & Habrera Hativeet -- Faithful Waters -- 2 CDs -- 2 Credits
Date Posted: 7/24/2012 4:24 PM ET
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Habrera Hativeet is a unique and pioneering ensemble that spans a whole range of influences and origins. The leader of the band Shlomo Bar, born in Morocco, founded Habrera Hativeet based upon ethnomusical interests (he started making his first songs after a request to make two music tracks for a docudrama on the social gap between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews), and upon some ideological interests showing Israel's common foundations of Arabic and Jewish origins, presenting new possibilities of expressions based upon a mixture of sounds of Indian, Middle Eastern, Persian and Western instruments. At first the public was taken by surprise. There were a few who considered thoughts like “They’re playing the music of the enemy”, but now they are widely accepted and appreciated, not only in Israel but throughout the world. The vocal expressions on its own however are more typical Hassidic Jewish like a kind of melodic prayer. There it is directing more towards the Israeli and Jewish community specifically, through bridging Israeli's Western (Askhkenazi) and Eastern (Sephardic) origins. -- from www.shlomobar.com