"The Israeli keyboardist-composer blends rhythms and sounds from around the globe
into a zesty world music stir fry.

Israeli keyboardist-composer Idan Raichel is a man with a mission: bringing to the Tel Aviv
scene a younger generation's music that blends a bold variety of Middle Eastern, African,
Indian, Latin American and funky hip-hop styles and that trumpets a message of conciliation
and peace across the Arab-Israeli gulf.

The dreadlocked Raichel brought his Idan Raichel Project to downtown's Orpheum Theatre
on Sunday night in a slick but powerful performance that showcased a nine-member
ensemble drawn from a diaspora of sympathetic musical souls."

"The singers' individual prowess was eclipsed, however, by their brilliant trade-offs in
Raichel's deftly crafted interlocking vocal charts..."

"High drama pervaded most every song, aided immensely by Raichel's alternately
atmospheric and high-flying keyboard runs, and the shrewd key modulations, deft
dynamics and skipping polyrhythms that charge his well-written material."

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