Odéon

Adam Baruch's liner note:
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This recording portrays the talents of two very young and very gifted musician from Haifa, who combine their individual musical skills and inclinations in order to create a kaleidoscope of partly composed and partly improvised musical inventions. It is a very unusual and ambitious project, and although its proximity to the "traditional" jazz principles is not unequivocal, I'm convinced that many jazz lovers will be able to accept this music as a legitimate extension to the contemporary jazz idiom.

Sassy Mizrachy is well known to the Israeli music fraternity as one of the most talented bass players to emerge on the scene in the last few years. His playing is well documented on "Biological Madness" and currently he performs with the top Israeli rock stars. Amos Rosner is still relatively anonymous, but his dexterity will surely win him many followers in the future.

The most important aspect of this recording is of course the wide spectrum of compositions presented here, ranging from a solo bass improvisation to a piece for string quintet. For me the link between all those compositions is the attempt to balance between a wonderful (and sometimes wild) sense of humor - shared by both Amos and Sassy - and the sadness and pain caused by facing the reality of our existence.

May 1991