DESCARGA (320 Kbps)
Gideon Coe | BBC Radio 6 Music "Lovely tunes"
Twistedsoul "Getting my freak-folk on to this on! I love how Cloud Of I is very experimental but still very listenable"
James Endeacott | Soho Radio "Cloud of I are another example of the depth and breadth of wonderful music coming from the Batov Records stable"
Alex Ruder | KEXP "solid tunes"
Kaptin Barrett | BOOMTOWN "fantastic, really beautiful music"
Julien Renou | Le Mellotron "Le Mellotron love this !"
Dreamt up in the 18th District, in a Paris squat, and realised back in her spiritual home, of Tel Aviv, Cloud of I is Yuli Shafiri’s first musical incantation. Yuli is an artist who sees nature and earth as her biggest inspiration, and whose sound blurs somewhere between fuzzed-out psychedelic acid folk and intense, layered electronic euphoria full of influences from the Middle East.
Whilst only 27 years old she’s well educated on music from far away places. Her Mother’s family is from the Iraqi-Jewish community of India and her father’s family is Latvian and Lithuanian who came to Israel and founded a feminist agricultural Kibbutz called Kineret, on the sea of Galilee. So it’s no surprise to hear the journeying aspect of her songs as they grow and grow, sometimes growling, other times whispering yet always intent on climbing and descending.
In Tel Aviv, Yuli used to sing and perform with a well-known band called “The White Screen” (who play a mix of psych-pop and art-rock) and in the last two years, up until 2019, she has been singing Turkish 70’s psych with the band, Satellites. Asked about her recent dealings with inactivity and how she experienced 2020 she is serene and positive, having gone off-grid with her contemporaries in a village in Israel where she kept creating and performing in the open air, under the stars, and around bonfires.
The fire is most definitely burning. As Cloud Of I look ahead and dream, we can enjoy this first foray that sees them literally reaching for the skies.
lançado em 24 de setembro de 2021
All songs were written, composed, and produced by Yuli Shafriri
Vocal, Guitars, Synths by Yuli Shafriri
Bass (tracks 2,3,4,5) by Nimrod Goldfarb
Synths (tracks 2,3,4,5) by Toot Raviv
Drums & Percussions (tracks 2,3,4,5) by Ben Ben Franklin
Guitars (tracks 2,3,4,5) by Ariel Meriash
Sitar (track 3) by Yoav Fekete
Production and Recording (tracks 2,3,5) by Oren Ben David
Mix & Master for (tracks 1,2,3,5) by Noam Levinberg
Mix & Master for (track 4) by Roee Berezowitz
Art by Iris Baram
Special thanks for:
Danny Kuttner
Wavos Studios
Pluto Studios
Plus thanks to
Mama Vered & Papa Yuval
Brother Gur
Love Shack
Emi Farashi
Nitzan Dana
Yonder
And all the angels who came my way
℗ © Batov Records 2021 | BTR051
www.batovrecords.com
Distributed by !K7 Music
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