Yoshie Fruchter's Pitom (Eclectic or Avantgarde)

Yoshie Fruchter is a guitarist who has a quartet, Pitom, consisting of himself, bass, drums and violin. The sound is a blend of traditional Jewish music, Jazz/Fusion and Avantgarde. The album is released on Joh Zorn's Tzadik label.  Frequently groove oriented, it reminds me a lot of the sounds coming from the Japanese Zeuhl/RIO scene. Here are some live clips on youtube that have amazingly high quality sound for live youtube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQnT8Huhrg&feature
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8q6dVEYIVA&feature

I picked up the album on a whim today while browsing the "world Music" section. tasty stuff.

Their Myspace:
 www.myspace.com/pitom 

Website:
pitommusic.com

I just started listening to it, and have added it to the Eclectic chart.  This is excellent. 

Approved for inclusion in RIO/Avant.

Hey, I added it to the chart five days ago (I call that almost mouldy ), though I forgot to vote (others had already).  I can safely vote move now :P and change the section status to move. It's another one that I would have been fine with in Eclectic, but Avant makes sense.EDIT: I'm starting to think that Avant should become a subcategory of Eclectic. :P


Edited by Logan - February 08 2009 at 12:03

Ricochet wrote: Logan wrote: I'm starting to think that Avant should become a subcategory of Eclectic. :P Post of the year so far. Let's... do it!!!

Avant is, commonly, the more experimental side of Eclectic Prog (perceived degree often determines fit).  And Avant would have its subcategories too.

I don't imagine that the Avant team would want to be relegated to such a subordinate subcategory position, though.


Edited by Logan - February 08 2009 at 13:42