(Free Jazz/Avant-Garde Jazz) Assif Tsahar - Cries of Disillusion - 2001 [FLAC, lossless]

From http://www.creativemusicarchive.com/artistList_query.asp?artID=273&artName=Assif%20Tsahar :
Assif Tsahar was born in Israel and grew up in Tel-Aviv. In pursuit of music he came to New York in 1990, receiving a diploma from Mannes College of Music and B.F.A at the New School. In 1998 he was awarded a young composer's grant from the Jerome Foundation. During the past three years he has produced over 50 performances of creative improvised music.
"Drawing equally from Sonny Rollins and Albert Ayler, the young Israeli tenor titan has become one of the brightest, if under-recognized, new talents on New York's avant-garde scene." Bill Milkowski (Jazz Times)
"One of the great new talents in New York" (Time Out New York)
"This recording (the Hollow World) extends Tsahar's responsibility for some of the most exciting improvised music currently being created" (Signal to Noise)
"The Aylerian tenor can speak in tongues as articulately as anyone can these days- it's a thrill when abstraction is truly compelling " (Village Voice)
"Few young jazz players generate the kind of buzz among New York cognoscenti that tenor saxophonist Assif Tsahar, have over the past couple of years. ...through shifts in register and tonal quality, Tsahar has a knack for creating the illusion that he is playing more than one instrument- This is some of the least dense and frenetic free jazz to come out of New York, and some of the most emotionally affecting. " (Jazziz)
"(Assif Tsahar) ... spring forth with a potent, fully formed style that marks him as an important new voice on his instrument. It's is always a revelation to find avant-gaurdists worth hearing even in their quiet moments. " (Music hound Jazz - the essential music guide)
"...Saxophonist Assif Tsahar is one of the most dynamic young players in jazz ... ...this is a galvanizing listen from start to finish" (CMJ magazine)

From http://www.indiejazz.com/ArtistDetail.aspx?ArtistID=25:
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel October 1, 1969, at age 11 Ori Kaplan was exposed to the clarinet teaching of kleizmer and classical teachers in Jaffa. Instead, Kaplan chose to play with DXM, a sampler driven underground Tel Aviv band. Kaplan immigrated to the US in 1991. After completing his Mannes College (NYC) BFA degree In 1996 he formed his "Trio Plus" with Tom Abbs on tuba and bass and Geoff Mann on drums and began developing his skills as a composer and band leader and maturing into his own personal voice on the saxophone. In 1999, Ori Kaplan formed a quartet with the members of Trio Plus with the addition of Steve Swell on trombone. In 1997, Kaplan also joined William Parker's Little Huey Orchestra and a number of other avant jazz projects related to the Knitting Factory and the Vision Festival (with Karen Borca, Alan Silva, Visions Orchestra). He maintains involvement with Jump Arts, voted "Best Arts Collective" by the New York Press 2000 and plays in festivals including Vision Fest, Texaco Fest, Bell Atlantic Fest and European venues and festivals.
Ori Kaplan joined the rock band Firewater in 1998 and toured the U.S. and Europe. During the same period, Kaplan formed his own "Ori Kaplan Percussion Ensemble" with Susie Ibarra and Geoff Mann on percussion and Andrew Bemkey (most notably of Reggie Workman's band) on piano. Drawing from Middle Eastern, Asian and southern U.S. aesthetics, this ensemble's varying cultural influences infuse the music with fresh dialogue and innovative improvisation.
In the last decade in NYC, Ori Kaplan recorded 5 releases as a leader for NY's premier downtown new music labels while playing with some of the best NYC bands as a collaborator. Kaplan received the Jerome award for Young Jazz Composers 2001. Ori Kaplan joined the acclaimed band Gogol Bordello. Self described as Gypsy Punk Cabaret, Gogol has spearheaded the Eastern European cultural revolution taking place in NYC. He has been playing with Firewater since 1998. The band is led by ex Cop Shoot Cop front man Tod A.
Ori Kaplan has also collaborated and recorded with: Susie Ibarra KFW(284) (Kaplan/Ibarra featured at the Whitney Museum Soundcheck series) Speedball Baby, Big Lazy, J.U.F., Victoria Hanna, John Zorn, Vision Orchestra, William Parker, and many others. He formed his Shaat'nez Band joined with Andrew Bemkey, Geoff Mann, Adam Roberts, Marcus Rojas on Tuba and Tamir Muskat (Big Lazy) on Drums. The band explores Jewish, Middle Eastern, and Gypsy traditions through a contemporary looking glass (Le Magus - Knitting Factory Works). The Shaat'nez evolved into the more electric Shot'nez - a collective with Stephen Ulrich (guitar) and Tamir Muskat - drums (both of Big Lazy) and Itamar Ziegler- Bass - Shot'nez' singular sound of film noire, Middle Eastern and southern blues has been described as "one foot in the swamp and the other in the desert" "an amazing sonic experience".
In a duo collaboration with Tamir Muskat Called Med. Balkan Beat Box, Muskat and Ori Kaplan dig into the new fresh possibilities of electronic music mixed with hard core folk music from north Africa, Middle East and the Balkans. They collaborate with great talents from these countries in an ever expanding creative exchange. Kaplan performs with the above projects around the world constantly in the last 6 years.