THE IDAN RAICHEL PROJECT - Within My Walls reviews
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| Billboard |
 Idan Raichel, the Israeli singer/ songwriter who broke ground by collaborating with Ethiopian artists and seamlessly fused Western pop with Middle Eastern sounds, travels to new places with his latest international release. "Within My Walls" functions as a sort of gallery of poetic songwriting and captivating vocals from such places as Colombia (through Marta Gomez), Cape Verde (from Mayra Andrade) and Rwanda and Uganda (with Swahili vocals by Somi). Another standout is the searing Arabic track "Min Nhar Li Mshiti" by Moroccan-Israeli singer Shimon Buskila. The beauty of this album is that, rather than feeling like an earnest collection of postcards from around the world, the music is filtered through Raichel's lush, moody, modern aesthetic. —Ayala Ben-Yehuda...full text |
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| Newmusicreviews |
| Idan Raichel, the Israeli singer/ songwriter who broke ground by collaborating with Ethiopian artists and seamlessly fused Western pop with Middle Eastern sounds, travels to new places with his latest international release. “Within My Walls” functions as a sort of gallery of poetic songwriting and captivating vocals from such places as Colombia (through Marta Gomez), Cape Verde (from Mayra Andrade) and Rwanda and Uganda (with Swahili vocals by Somi). Another standout is the searing Arabic track “Min Nhar Li Mshiti” by Moroccan-Israeli singer Shimon Buskila. The beauty of this album is that, rather than feeling like an earnest collection of postcards from around the world, the music is filtered through Raichel’s lush, moody, modern aesthetic. —Ayala Ben-Yehuda”...full text |
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| Mp3.rhapsody. |
Raichel's live performances can be a vertiginous experience, featuring the complex interplay of multiple instrumentalists, but his recordings are much more controlled. He still collaborates almost obsessively -- Marta Gomez and Mayra Andrade are among the many guests-- but Raichel's cooling touch keeps sparks from igniting. This is, without question, successful pop music, improbably crafted from a polyglot mix of performers. If there's a weakness, it's in moments that devolve into a kind of blathering ethnic sameness that does nothing to highlight the cultures Raichel seeks to
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