July 23, 2009 – A Roof in Jaffa

I couldn’t figure out what crazy instruments Ilya Magnes was playing. He introduced some of them – ‘primitive’ strings and wind instruments – and I was sitting next to him during his performance so i could see he was recording himself and playing himself back. And he was using something called a ‘handsonic’ that worked as complex percussion. But it was hard to follow what he was doing because Orly AlCoshi was doing some incredible moves – a kind of sampling of Indian, Egyptian, Turkish, Flamenco and more to his music. And all this on the roof of a house in Jaffa, while a nearby minaret was emitting the final call for prayer for the day.