Pharaoh's Daughter

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From Hasidic Brooklyn to Global Psychedelia: The Bottomless Well of Pharaoh's Daughter's melodies is a long hitch-hike from Yeshiva, where she had her earliest education in communal singing, and gefilte fish jar clanking rhythm making around her family table.  Today,  Basya Schechter leads her pan mediterannean 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. They have released two cd's on John Zorn's Tzadik label, two on Knitting Factory Records, and their latest, 'Haran' on Oy!hoo records, their fifth, has been awarded the 2007 "The Indie Acoustic Project Award,"  in the World Music- Eurasia & Global Category for the best cd of 2007. 

Join them again this Passover for their annual free macaroon concert