It's an album full of musical brilliance, warmth, passion and intensity - and it sets out to be the artists' biggest success Gilad Atzmon has not only made a name for himself as a saxophonist (including as a member of The Blockheads, Ian Dury's band), he has also become known above all as a writer, commentator and political mouthpiece for the Palestinian struggle The ensemble, which has explored the dark spirit of Kurt Weill, the melancholy of the tango and the nostalgia of the strings, returns again and again to its central motif: Arabic harmonies mixed with improvised jazz. Indeed, for Atzmon, in true artistic freedom lies the real meaning of cultural resistance Even though the ensemble mixes many musical styles, the idiom of jazz always remains: the burning energy, the underlying tension, the poetic pain, punctuated by ecstatic laughter. Jazz embodies the spirit of contemporary resistance, the struggle against stagnation, against material poverty and - most importantly - against oppression of any kind.