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I had a chance to interview Eatliz before their showcase at SXSW.

They are currently on tour in the US with stops planned in Atlanta, Savannah, North and South Carolina, Buffalo, Albany, Toronto and New York.  Unfortunately, Philly isn’t on the list.

To find out more about the band, check out their site, and make sure to watch the video for “Hey.”

Uri Wertheim knows music. He’s a DJ and producer in Tel Aviv. His projects include: Radio Trip, The Apples, The Ramirez Brothers, TREE and left. His home is a museum of vintage records and recording equipment including reel to reel tape players, analog mixers, and, of course, record players.

He granted me an interview and I got a musical education.  He’s particularly interested in Koliphone records, started in the 60s by the Azulai brothers in Jaffa. They recorded Jewish Music from Muslim lands, back when the musical style of countries like Morocco, Algeria, Tripoli, Yemen, Egypt and Iraq used to be different.  In the 70s these styles merged and took on western pop influences and became the Mizrahi music of today.

Mixmonster shows Scientist Wins the World Cup followed by Tony Schwartz.

Among the albums he showed me:

• Scientist Wins The World Cup
• Tony Schwartz – Sound of My City
• Alan Lomax – Wave The Ocean, Wave the Sea
• Howlin Wolf – Chess Blues Master Series
• Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – Frenzy

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