30 August 2022
ZADIK ZECHARIA LEGOWELT REMIX
Out now: Zadik Zechariah – Kurdish Melodies Remixes Vinyl 12″
This one has been in the shops for a few weeks already but I didn’t have the time yet to post about it here so here we go…..get it at clone or your local recordstore!
Our story begins in Jerusalem 1980 – Zadik Zecharia – a folk musician whose speciality is the Zorna – a traditional kurdish woodwind instrument – recorded a cassette of kurdish melodies played on Zorna and Dola, a kurdish drum.
The tape was released independently and distributed mainly around the kurdish-jewish community in Israel. Zadik mostly performed at weddings and celebrations and was also known by the nickname “Iron Lungs”, because of his ability to take only a few pauses for breath during his long gigs.
In 2005, one tape found its way to “Something on the Road” – an underground CD-r Jerusalem based label which reissued the music on CD-r. Overnight, these intense melodies became a cult phenomena in the underground circles of Jerusalem and beyond. The kurdish melodies could suddenly be heard during dj sets, topping electronic beats, or adding drones to heavy experimental sessions. which later led “Something on the Road’s” founder to initiate a remix compilation with Jerusalem’s nest producers. One of them Mule Driver. The remix has became a cult by its own.
Fast forward to present time, a conversation with Legowelt about folk music led Mule Driver to dig an unreleased longer version of this techno remix. As well as ask him for his interpretation, that turned out as a killer acid track followed by an EBM – electro belter by Juju (Juju and Jordash) and PRZ (Clone).
