Pharaoh's Daughter

Location:
NEW YORK, New York, US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Acoustic / Ambient / Experimental
Site(s):
Label:
Tzadik
Type:
Indie
Blending a psychedelic sensibility and a pan-Mediterranean sensuality, Basya Schechter leads her band, Pharaoh's Daughter, through Doors-like improvisations, liturgical chants with Middle Eastern, and spiritual stylings filtered through percussion, flute, strings, oud, saz, bass, rhodes and electronica. Their sound has been cultivated by Basyas Hasidic musical background and by trips to the Middle East, Africa, Israel, Egypt, Central Africa, Turkey, Kurdistan and Greece. There she has studied in ethnomusicology centers as well as learning through meeting internationally renknowned folk musicians in cafes, and from street performers, who have taught her songs from their musical heritages. Inspired by world instruments, but also influenced by Western song structure, she began retuning her guitar to sound like a cross between an Arabic oud and a Turkish saz, with harmonic minor melodies, and odd time signatures. Pharaohs Daughter has traveled both nationally and internationally, has performed recently at Central Parks Summerstage and at Carnegie Hall. They have released two cd's on John Zorn's Tzadik label.



'Haran', Pharaoh's Daughter's five record, will be released on Oyhoo Rocords in May.
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