The Tel Aviv Session by The Toure-Raichel Collective

Every now and againmusicians who have neverplayed before get together tohave a musical conversationand create sound magic.

This is one of those very rarespontaneous collaborations that comes alongand exceeds all expectations (Ry Cooder andVishwa Mohan Bhatt’s Meeting by the Riversprings to mind). Raichel is a big star in Israeland he is a man on a musical mission, but hisconsiderable chops as a piano player require amore sympathetic setting than his bandnormally allows him.

Toure has the famousfamily name and rising status as an Africanguitar hero. This time round his relativelyunheard virtuosity as an acoustic player hasemerged in spectacular fashion.The two had only met briefly on the wayto somewhere else and finally got down tojam in a Tel Aviv studio for a few hours.Toure brought with him his percussionist andRaichel a bass player friend. There were noplans – they just played, and as the rhythmsection locked into some grooves, somethinghappened. What does it sound like?Imagine a leaf floating down a river goingover pebbles and waterfalls, lingering inrockpools and coming to rest in a peacefullake.