Yehezkel Braun, an Israeli composer, was born in Breslau, Germany, around the same time as the Bauhaus movement and immigrated to British Mandate Palestine two years later.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Yehezkel Braun's music reflects Tel Aviv's mixed identity, showing fascination with Jewish folk music, Gregorian chant, Baroque and Classical traditions (especially J. S. Bach), and Arabic influences.
Album & Artwork
The album pays tribute to the Bauhaus movement, an art school that encompassed architecture, design, and a philosophy of artistic freedom and technical innovation.
Album & Artwork
Landscape painter Shalom Flash contributed several of his Tel Aviv paintings for the album's design, with photographs taken from the same perspective by Asaf Lewkowitz.
Cultural Impact
Tel Aviv's "White City," designed by emigrated Jewish architects from Germany who adapted Bauhaus principles, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003 as the world's largest collection of Bauhaus-style buildings.
Historical Context
Many Bauhaus artists died in Auschwitz, while others fled to Switzerland, the USA, and Israel, escaping the hate-mongering ideology of the National Socialists.
Recording & Production
The album features a mandolin made by Arik Kerman, an eighty-one-year-old Tel Aviv luthier, and a Mason & Hamlin piano from 1960.
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