Album Notes

Avital Raz is a singer-songwriter from Jerusalem. She started out singing classical music and opera. In her early twenties she moved to India and studied Druphad - classical indian music - for six years. Now she performs her own material which is of mostly dark, alternative, folksy, Indian-influenced nature. In early 2008 she self-released a debut EP entitled Strange Love Songs. In 2004 she recorded a full album of songs based on James Joyce's Chamber Music poem cycle but is unable to release it till 2011 due to the work of James Joyce still being under copyright protection. She has completed work on another EP and is currently searching for a label to release it. She is also in the process of recording a full length album. Thus far, Avital has not had the opportunity of touring outside of Israel. She did however organize herself a few gigs in London in June 2008. In Israel, She has performed extensively since her return from India with a five person band, in a duo with Dulcimer player-Amos Ungar and as a solo performer. She makes a living singing her own compositions of Hebrew poetry of the middle ages in adult educational programmes in libraries, singing with an early music ensemble (Ritmo Anima) and is the soloist of an avant-garde rock production entitled "Voices of the Levites". Radio airplay: Israel: 88FM, "Kol Hamusica"-Goverment classical and world music station, 106FM-"Kol Hakampus"-colledge radio Ausralia: "Sideways through sound" Sydney radio Germany: "Alooga" radio Belgium: "Psyche van het folk" acoustic and psychedelic world crossovers, Antwerp Spain: "Kolot", Radio Sefarad USA: The Soupy Gato podcast