Yemen Blues

With Kahalani’s soulful vocals alternating between the grit of Mississippi Delta to the falsetto of Prince-style funk, Yemen blues was one of the breakout favourites from this year’s GlobalFEST lineup

NPR Music

Yemen Blues is a band that must be on your radar, regardless of your preference for genre.

Izzy Yellen, Downbeat

Quite simply, it’s one of the most exciting bands in world music right now

Time Out Chicago

In 2010, singer & composer Ravid Kahalani founded the rare combination of top musicians we now call Yemen Blues. From the start, Yemen Blues created an original sound that became a new language in contemporary music. The intense musicians hail from NYC, Uruguay & Tel Aviv. This includes the core members of creation: Rony Iwryn, Itamar Doari & Shanir Blumenkranz. Yemenite tradition of Muslims, Christians of Jews, with contemporary overlays of rock & roll, jazz & blues. Yemen Blues presents today The show “INSANIYA” (Humanity) based on Laswell’s sound from the upcoming album. The full live show includes a collaboration with the talented Ori Ben-Shabat from the group of artists “Maria Kong” who created an original video art on 5 screens inspired by the new sound of Yemen Blues. Yemen Blues is also touring these days with few types of live shows from Intimate closure shows to the full impressive “Insaniya” show.

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