We will celebrate ten years of the Orient House Ensemble, with a special three set performance. featuring special guests Asaf Sirkis, Guillermo Rozenthuler, Tali Atzmon, Romanno Viazaani and the Sigamos Quartet. Materials from our early albums, will be followed by our acclaimed In Loving Memory of America tribute to Charlie Parker. We will also play some materials from our new collaboration album with Robert Wyatt and Ros StephenFor The Ghost Within. We will conclude with new music from the band’s new release The Tide Has Changed.
To read a Guardian 4 stars review of The Tide Has Changed,click here
To read a Guardian 5 stars review of For The Ghosts Within, click here
This is our Orient House Ensemble mini jazz festival.
We will celebrate ten years of the Orient House Ensemble, with a special three set performance. featuring special guests Asaf Sirkis, Guillermo Rozenthuler, Tali Atzmon, Romanno Viazaani and the Sigamos Quartet. Materials from our early albums, will be followed by our acclaimed In Loving Memory of America tribute to Charlie Parker. We will also play some materials from our new collaboration album with Robert Wyatt and Ros StephenFor The Ghost Within. We will conclude with new music from the band’s new release The Tide Has Changed.
To read a Guardian 4 stars review of The Tide Has Changed,click here
To read a Guardian 5 stars review of For The Ghosts Within, click here
Jez Nelson presents Gilad Atzmon's Orient House Ensemble in concert at Ronnie Scott's during the band's 10th anniversary tour. Alongside Atzmon on reeds and accordion are pianist Frank Harrison, Yaron Stavi on double bass and drummer Eddie Hick.
…this blistering, beautiful set…a fluid, hypnotic, optimistic blending of sounds from North Africa, the Arabian peninsula, John Surman and Charlie Parker, resulting in a multicultural balm of Gilad to soothe all aching souls. Andew Male, Mojo, October 2010.
The vivacity, urgency and spontaneity of the best contemporary jazz spurs him always John Fordham, The Guardian.
Spirituality and time-bending alto-sax virtuosity Mike Hobart Financial Times (4 stars)
Astonishing invention and virtuosity Robert Shore, Metro
Soulful soprano-sax Jack Massarik, The Evening Standard (4 stars)
..serious messages and stunning music-makingBBC Music Magazine
Riotous mix of oompah music-hall cavortings, slurred-pitch Middle Eastern rhapsodising, luxuriously sensuous clarinet love-songs, and stormy collective blasts reminiscent of the 1960s John Coltrane quartetJohn Fordham, The Guardian (4 stars)
a blend of passion, intensity, superb musicianship and an underlying political commitment as Atzmon continues to campaign against all kinds of oppression..... a man who has done so much to enhance the cultural landscape of the UK in recent years The JazzMann (4 stars)
Intense and involved but at the same time highly entertaining Alan Joyce This Is Nottingham
Incredible and unprecedentedRainlores World of Music
…this blistering, beautiful set…a fluid, hypnotic, optimistic blending of sounds from North Africa, the Arabian peninsula, John Surman and Charlie Parker, resulting in a multicultural balm of Gilad to soothe all aching souls. Andew Male, Mojo, October 2010.
The vivacity, urgency and spontaneity of the best contemporary jazz spurs him always John Fordham, The Guardian.
Spirituality and time-bending alto-sax virtuosity Mike Hobart Financial Times (4 stars)
Astonishing invention and virtuosity Robert Shore, Metro
Riotous mix of oompah music-hall cavortings, slurred-pitch Middle Eastern rhapsodising, luxuriously sensuous clarinet love-songs, and stormy collective blasts reminiscent of the 1960s John Coltrane quartetJohn Fordham, The Guardian (4 stars)
Intense and involved but at the same time highly entertaining Alan Joyce This Is Nottingham
Incredible and unprecedentedRainlores World of Music
A few words about the album and the OHE:
Ten years ago I realised that beauty is the way forward. I saw that art is the true means of transformation. Spirit and energy are bricks and mortar. Shapes and colours are hammers and chisels. Rationality is a misleading concept, the melody is the truth, humanism is a metaphor, consciousness is the devil and amnesia is freedom. The tide has changed and so have we, more than ever, and in spite of all the odds, we laugh.
In the last decade I have managed to surround myself with some of the most incredible musicians around, people who push each other towards the edge of artistic creativity and beyond. I guess that the Orient House Ensemble’s motto is pretty obvious: relentlessly, we remind ourselves why we decided to make music in the first place.
I thank the Gods for allowing us to proceed so far.
The Tide has Changed, The Orient House Ensemble 10th Anniversary Tour
To Book Tickets click here Gilad Atzmon - alto & soprano saxophone and clarinet Frank Harrison – piano Yaron Stavi - double bass Eddie Hick - drums
Led by fiery saxophonist and award-winning composer Gilad Atzmon, The Orient House Ensemble was founded in London in 2000 and is renowned as one of the world’s most brilliant and inspirational jazz groups. Drawing on the music of Coltrane and Bird as well as the beautiful music of the Middle East to create something new and wonderful the Ensemble has been touring constantly all over Europe and the UK and recorded six albums to date, have won many awards and received constant worldwide critical acclaim. The musical history of the OHE is a story of a relentless attempt to cross the divide, blending East and West and forming a new improvisational language out of Jazz and ethic music.
For Atzmon, artistic freedom is the true meaning of cultural resistance. He insists that that this is the exact quality that transformed Black American music from beauty into spirit. For Atzmon the true meaning of being a musician is a constant attempt to keep reminding yourself why you decided to play music in the first place.
Though the Ensemble blends many musical ideas and styles it is always within the Jazz idiom: the energy, the subliminal communication, the poetic pain and ecstatic laughter. The Orient House Ensemble is there to keep Jazz as a spirit of resistance: a struggle against musical stagnation and oppression of any kind.
8 Oct Links Hotel, Montrose, http://www.linkshotelmusic.com/jazz-blues-music.php
12-13 Jazza Festival, Scala, Kings Cross, London. Free Music for Free Gaza, Launching The Ghosts Within (Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen), Playing with Sarah Gillespie and with the Jazza All Stars http://jazzaproductions.squarespace.com/
14. Oct St Austell Brewery Visitor Centre, St. Austell, www.restormelarts.co.uk
18 Nov The OHE Ten Years Anniversary, London Jazz Festival at the Art Depot, London3 sets, presenting all our songs, many guests, Ros Stephen and The Sigamos Quartet, Asaf Sirkis, Guillermo Rozenthuler, Romano Viazzani, Tali Atzmon and many others
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 12:53AM 
