Pickathon Starlight Series, Episode 6: Yemen Blues

by Ned LannamannRavid Kahalani of Yemen Blues Todd Cooper
Pickathon's Starlight Series continues with this scorching performance from Yemen Blues, the Tel Aviv-based band that was, for my money, the greatest discovery of the 2016 festival. They're playing "Min Kalbi," a mini-epic of sorts that takes a basic but insistent groove and turns it into something transcendent. Frontman Ravid Kahalani locks down the low end on his gimbri while Shanir Blumenkranz turns the melancholy intervals of his oud