Alongside well-renowned Israeli guest musicians, the album includes vocals by Zaher Zorgati (Myrath) and guitar tunes by Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-Guns'n'Roses)."Roots and Roads" is Yossi Sassi band's 3rd studio album combining east and west together for an oriental prog metal experience of acoustic and electric. The final sound of the album is the reflection of an intricate combination of rock, classical and worldwide oriental instruments: flute, clarinet, violin, bozuouki, oud, saz, charango, chumbush, ney, kanun and much more.
"Roots and Roads" will drop May 25th, 2016.
The album was recorded in the Jaffa Sound Arts studio in the ancient city port of Jaffa, Israel, during April of 2016. Check out behind-the-scenes footage below.
1. Wings
2. Palm Dance
3. Root Out
4. Mr. NoSoul
5. Madame TwoSouls
6. The Religion Of Music
7. Winter
8. Thundercloud
9. Road Less Traveled
10. Rizes Kai Dromoi
11. Bird Without A Tree
12. Stronger Than Ever
Line-up/Musicians
- Yossi Sassi / Vocals, Guitars (Electric, Nylon-String, Acoustic, 7-Strings), Bouzoukitara, Bouzouki, Charango, Oud, Saz, Chumbush, Keyboards on "Madame TwoSouls", "Road Less
Traveled"
- Or Lubianiker / Electric Bass
- Shay Ifrah / Drums
- Ben Azar / Guitar solos 2 and 3 on "Palm Dance", Electric Guitar on "The Explorientals"
- Sapir Fox / Vocals ("Road Less Traveled", "Bird Without A Tree", choir on "Wings")
- Roei Fridman / Percussion
Guest musicians:
- Zaher Zorgati / Vocals on "The Religion Of Music"
- Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal / Guitar solos 1 and 4 on “Palm Dance”
- Diana Golbi / Vocals on "Root Out"
- Roy Zu-arets / Piano
- Yoav Efron / Keyboards on "Wings", "Rizes Kai Dromoi", "The Religion Of Music", "Thundercloud"
- Bob Katsionis / Hammond and additional keyboards on "Rizes Kai Dromoi"
- Ariel Qassis / Kanun
- Daniel Hoffman / Violins
- Itzhak Ventura / Arabic, Turkish and Persian Ney
- Danielle Sassi / Flute
- Yankale Segal / Fretless Bass on "Bird without a tree"
- Assaf Perelmuter / Lap steel, Diddley bow
- Harel Shachal / Clarinet
- Dan Piloni Kark, Jonathan Jacobi, Liron Schaffer / Choiron "Wing"
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Yossi Sassi Band – Roots And Roads (2016)
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