News - Yeshe - African Inspired Mbira World Music

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NEWS AND UPDATES....

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My new band!

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2 Free Yeshe Downloads @

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and Billboard World Music Song Contest #1 Winner

"Peace of Mind"

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www.billboardsongcontest.com

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Quotes

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"Yeshe brings together diverse cultures and musics
with striking compatibility and resonance. A true
gem in our world music category."

( CD Baby, USA )

"Yeshe's compositions range from the gentle to
the spirited, fusing a complex percussive structure
with layerings of melody and lyrics, from overtly
African to anywhere-in-the-wordly.......

Beware, it's addictive!!!"

( Jackey Coyle 'Rhythms' magazine, Australia )

"If you are looking for some world music to bring some
calm and peace to your inner world, World Citizen,
by Yeshe, will take you there"

"You find your self immersed in a release of
beauty and grace"

"Discover the beauty!!!!"

( Faster and Louder, Australia )

"In World Citizen, Yeshe has created a world
music disc chock-a-block of rhythms and melodies that
are magnificently evocative; you'll sway and dance
all the way through this one.It plays a little
like your own personal folk festival"

( Red Deer Advocate , Canada )

"Yeshe's half whispered vocals and liquid
Mbira Dzavadzimu creates an intimacy that makes
you want to lean into the music"

( Soundroots, USA )

"Warmly produced by Yeshe and Manx, and released
on Manx’s own Dog My Cat label, this is a debut album
that’s been a longtime coming, but well worth the wait.
With an upfront simplicity that belies the more complex rhythms
bubbling just beneath, World Citizen has to be one of the
more satisfying Aussie albums released so far this year"

( Seth Jordan: The Tiki Lounge/Rhythms Australia )

"This is brilliant African-sounding music from a
multi-cultural percussionistc with a wide open mind to all
the globe's notes. Usually we think of world music as something
traditional and specific to a culture. But Yeshe modernizes and
crosses geographic and musical boundaries like
a Paul Simon in reverse"

"A Feast for music tourists"

( NB Reader, Canada )

"Profoundly gentle - in the best sense of the word....
Evocative of Geoffrey Oryema's Exile"

( Penguin Eggs, Canada )

"Yeshe's own singular voice was supple, like worn leather,
and made for an earthy counterpoint to the
otherwordly sound of the mbira"

( The Village Voice, Canada )

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Yeshe now on Myspace

myspace.com/yeshemusic

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Yeshe proudly supports the
Seashepherd Conservation Society

www.seashepherd.org/

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CD Review
Rhythms Magazine

See below complete transcript.....

(text from above CD Review in Rhythms Magazine)

Yeshe Reiners is a Germanborn multi-instrumentalist/nomad whos lived in over twenty countries and studied a variety of ethnic music styles. Hes called Australia home since the early 90s, and currently lives in the Byron Bay region of NSW. Known primarily as a percussionist, hes worked with the U.S.-based Afro-funk band Panjea, didge virtuoso Ganga Giri, Canadian slide guitar bluesman Harry Manx, and most surprisingly the teen pop group Girlfriend.

For a percussionist, Yeshes World Citizen is an unexpectedly gentle and melodic album. In the mid-90s he discovered the subtle beauty of the African mbira (also known as the thumb-piano or kalimba), and having spent time in Zimbabwe studying it further, the ancestral instruments lilting resonance is central to this albums success.

With a mix of traditional and original tunes, sung both in Shona and English, Yeshes soothingly husky voice is well complimented by the sweet harmonies of Caroline Sommers and Hottentot Partys Parissa Bouas. Other featured guests include Indonesian guitarist Tommee, Manx on lap-steel guitar and banjo, and Giri on earth-throbbing yadaki.

A serene version of Bob Marleys classic No Woman, No Cry is a delightful highlight, which resists the stereotyped version, and instead meshes Yeshes bright mbira melody line with Tommees elegant fretboard fingering. The closing More Offspring (Don Peyote Remix) offers a suitably pulsing all-in percussion romp, as a counterpoint to the acoustic laid-back ambience of most of the album.

Warmly produced by Yeshe and Manx, and released on Manxs own Dog My Cat label, this is a debut album thats been a long time coming, but well worth the wait. With an upfront simplicity that belies the more complex rhythms bubbling just beneath, World Citizen has to be one of the more satisfying Aussie albums released so far this year.

( By Seth Jordan )

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