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The highly anticipated return of one of the mid 90s favorite NYC
musicians, Yossi Piamenta, will take place on Monday night November 24th,
8:00 pm at The Cutting Room in New York City.
"Yossi Piamenta and the Piamenta band jam with frenetic abandon, creating a
psychedelic haze of classic rock, jazz, and Oriental Hebrew music.
Critics have compared Piamenta's fret magic to the likes of Jimi Hendrix,
and Carlos Santana, though Piamenta's style is truly his own."
Yossi Piamenta has always been surrounded by music. Born in 1951, in
Jerusalem Israel, Piamenta comes from a world steeped in the mystical songs
and traditions of Sephardic Jewery. Early on, Yossi was influenced by his
father's love of Arabic music, with its quarter tones and wild spiraling
improvisation. Yossi was weaned on the likes of Egyptian stars, Umm Kulthum,
and Abdul Wahab. Yossi's uncle, Albert, a renowned Israeli bandleader,
further encouraged Yossi's love of music, by buying him his first guitar.
Growing up as an Israeli child of the sixties, Yossi's musical evolution was
in full swing. Yossi devoured the sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Eric
Clapton, and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, all in heavy rotation on Israeli
radio at the time. A unique musical sound was being formed.
Forward to 1976, when jazz legend Stan Getz experienced Yossi's playing,
while traveling in Israel. Getz was so enamored with what he heard, he
brought his discovery to America to record an album. This would forever
change the course of Yossi Piamenta's professional and personal life.
Yossi's exposure to the wild excesses of the music world in the late 70s,
didn't jive with his growing sense of spiritual longing. Yossi committed
himself to Orthodox Judaism, ultimately choosing to settle within the
Orthodox Jewish world of Brooklyn, NY. Yossi turned the Jewish music world on
its ear, bringing his wild guitar stylings to the Jewish wedding circuit,
which was far more accustomed to the Klezmer sounds of Jewish Eastern European. (Some of those weddings were a real trip.) Eight studio albums, numerous concerts
and festivals have made Yossi Piamenta one of the biggest stars in the
Orthodox Jewish world.
Yossi's firm belief that a good jam is a good jam, regardless of language,
lyric, or musical style, fueled his desire to take his music beyond the
boundaries of being just a "Jewish musician." Throughout the 90s dozens of
successful gigs at popular venues like, Wetlands, the Knitting Factory, and
Tramps introduced the Piamenta's sound to local jam fans in the Big Apple.
Yossi became one of music's best kept secrets, and a popular part of the NYC
live music landscape.
After a three-year hiatus from the club scene, a rejuvenated and eager
Yossi Piamenta is once again ready to bring his old Stratocaster back to
center stage, the way only Piamenta can. Plans for 2004 include lots of
live club gigs, summer festivals around the country, and the release of a
debut live album.
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