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There are no boundaries in the world of jazz, and if there are, they are there to break through,- playfully and with ease. For Michel Sajrawy, a Palestinian of Christian faith who comes from Nazareth and has an Israeli passport, overcoming contradictions is an important element - in everyday life, and in his music. This guitarist and composer already melted his fellow-musicians’ diverse religious faiths into a bubbling blend of rock, jazz, intoxicating Arabic rhythms and arabesque sounds on his debut album „Yathrib" two years ago. Now he sets off on a groundbreaking fusion trip through the musical world of orient and occident.
Fully freed from the laws of gravity, Michel Sajrawy abandons himself completely to the elegant and cultivated sound of jazz on his new album, "Writings On The Wall". While everyone kept trying to compare him to Jimi Hendrix, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin after his debut album, he now presents himself as a guitarist who is quite evidently acting beyond all trends and „isms". With his almost consistently soft, sparing, and clearly structured playing, he elicits sounds from the jazz guitar that combine the traditional and the contemporary, East and West, in a bewitchingly beautiful way.

