'From the Desert, from a Faraway Land' From: The Jerusalem Report | Date: March 24, 2003| Author: | Copyright 2003 The Jerusalem Report. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

It was his openness to world music that sent Idan Reichel to South Tel Aviv to seek new sounds from unknown artists. The album they created has become the year's surprise hit, but Reichel's fellow musicians, many Ethiopian, remain largely unknown.

Mitchell Ginsburg It all started when Idan Reichel bought a simple music-recording program for his PC. Reichel was 23 years old, a year out of the army, and living at home with his parents in Kfar Saba. He set up his computer in the basement and began inviting people over to record Hebrew and Amharic songs, instrumentals, love letters and even ...

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