Career
His music is described as a synthesis of rock, jazz and avant-garde, tinged with deep electronic and radical Jewish-middle-eastern music John Zorn is quoted as saying “A cutting edge guitarist who combines the harmonic lyricism of Bill Frisell with the angst and skronk of Marc Ribot…keep your eyes and ears on this guy. He leads a number of original music ensembles including Edom, Dimyon, and Crazy Slavic Band.
Eyal’s ensembles have performed at major music festivals worldwide such as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, New York City 2007 Winter Jazz Fest, Brooklyn Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Festival, Verizon Jazz Festival, the New York Jewish Music and Heritage Festival, Florida Music Harvest, The Jewzapalooza Festival in New York City and many more.
His music was featured in the movies Keepers Of Eden by Yoram Porath, Israeli’s Cinema History documentary by Raphael Nadjari, as well as at the Music Television show “Undress.” Way of New York City/National Public Radio recently interviewed him and dedicated a 90-minute program to his music Eyal started to explore jazz, rock and avant-garde music at an early age.
He led the highly celebrated Lemon Juice Quartet which performed regularly at the Red Sea International Jazz Festival, released three original CDs and was heralded for their Civil Defense “Peasant Songs,” a version of Bela Bartokand Eric Satie’s music on Piadrum Records. Eyal"s collaboration with long-time childhood friend and drummer Asaf Sirkis, has resulted in two duo CDs.
The most recent “Elementary Dialogues” released in June 2009 by Ayler Records (France).
His Jewish music acoustic ensemble, Dimyon, has earned critical acclaim after performances in Israel and Italy. After a solo tour in Austria, Eyal recently completed a guitar tour in China, playing solo as well as performing with local musicians from straight-ahead jazz aficionados to extreme avant-garde noisemakers. “Hope and Destruction,” his second Civil Defense on Tzadik Records, with his ensemble “Edom” was released in 2009.
The group’s debut Civil Defense, featuring Maozwith John Medeski, Shanir Blumenkranzand & Ben Perowsky, earned critical acclaim.
