“Israel” (Used 6 times)

Israeli-born fingerstyle guitarist Yair Yona started out as a bassist, playing stints in several London bands including Human Beings. But when he discovered the music of Bert Jansch, Yair followed that musical path to the "Takoma school" and beyond. Yair Yona toured the US in 2011, including a performance at the Hopscotch Festival, and a WFMU session on Irene Trudel's show alongside fellow steel-stringer Glenn Jones:

World Behind Curtains, Yair Yona's new album, is out today on Strange Attractors Audio House. The label is also home to releases by Glenn Jones and his band Cul de Sac, and a great range of post-rock and acid-psych. Strange Attractors offer a great selection of promotional mp3s here on the FMA, including three selections from Glenn Jones.

Yair's former label, Anova Music, also shares a great selection on the FMA. Check out our Earth Day feature on Turkish-born free jazz saxpohonist Albert Beger, and keep an eye on Yair's new free jazz label, OutNow Recordings.

While his music harkens back to analog times, Yair Yona is very much in the digital realm. He did a great YouTube video series, "A Day in Tel Aviv," soundtracked by his 2010 album Remember and previously featured on this here blog. And speaking of blogs, Yair runs a great site covering his wide-ranging musical interests over at Small Town Romance.

The Turkish-born, Tel Aviv-based saxophonist Albert Beger has a personal message for all of us this Earth Day, posted in-full on his website earthday.albertbeger.com.

in honor of Earth Day, he is making the The New Albert Beger Quartet's 2008 album Big Mother available for free download under a Creative Commons Music Sharing license.

While researching this post I drew an exciting global news: Albert Beger will be performing with the incredible French double bass player Joëlle Léandre at Levontin7 on May 17th. You can hear a few performances from the renowned Tel Aviv venue on the FMA here, as well as a performance from Joëlle Léandre solo at Brooklyn's ISSUE Project Room, and more selections from the great Albert Beger.

Since Free Music Archive reaches all over the world, I'm wondering: How will you spend your Earth Day?

51% is a super group of rappers and producers that started working together during 2005, they joined forces while working nights at J.C.M studios, on separate projects. 51% are: Taboo+, Jozeph, Shai Fishman, Avi Ashkenazi & Avi Golzman. After a year and a half of intense working the album was done. The band itself creates everything revolves the project, from the music to the graphics, clips, shows and publicity. In 51% everyone do what he does best and that's the corner stone that leads us forward. Till now we put out 2 albums. The debut album called “51 Percent” and the second one called “Zehu” (which is “That’s It” in hebrew).

Our manifest is "music should be free" that's the reason we give the album free in our shows. We believe that giving the album for free gives us more crowd and more intense relationship with the crowd. In order to keep close with our audience we also release songs to the internet every few months, and we let people download them for free. There is also a Collection of songs called “Songs From The Boidem” the include 24 songs of us in “Megatron” 51% form and also as solo artists (we do that once in a while).

In our shows we created an interactive system that helps up to communicate better with the crowd. In that system people can record themselves to a web cam & a microphone and then the system create a bit from them. Atop this crowd-generated beat, we are rapping. This concept is called “The Song With The Crowd”. Off course that’s not the only interactive thing we do in the show but in order to find out more you can just jump over and observe a show. You can also check out youtube channel for videos from the show (http://www.youtube.com/aviashkenazi)

Uncontrollable Mumbles [Milmulim Chasrei Shlita] is Aviv's first solo album, but he is by no means a beginner. Aviv has been in the music biz for 16 years now, and is fondly remembered as the leading man of The Subway Suckers, a punk-rock-grunge band.

The Subway Suckers released 2 albums on a major lable-NMC. The first, KOMOT KARKA VAMATA, came out in 1994. The next album was SHEKET NAFSHI which came out in 1996. the subway suckers started in 1992 and broke up in 1998.

In 2002, Aviv started a new band called Aviv Mark and the Philharmonic. They released their debut album in 2004. This album, Milmulim Hasrei Shlita (Uncontrollable Mumbling) is a departure from hispast works. It still rocks, though. Personal songs from the gut.