- Yves Galula SHALOM!

You are the creator, the producer, the bass player and the musical director of the project "ParisTelAvivMusic".

Could you explain us in few words what it is all about ?

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Yves Galula: "Paris Tel Aviv Music" is a brand new musical project who was born in Israël during the summer 2015.In few words, it's a conceptual musical show where I invite on the same stage, french & israelis artists, musicians & singers.

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- What kind of music can we hear in those shows?

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Yves Galula: As I said first it's conceptual and this word is very important to me!

Every show is different from the other, I create them as if it was a TV program (my references as Musical Tv Shows are Taratata, Later with Jools Holland, David Sanborn & Friends...) 

As a musician, arranger & musical conductor, I try to realise with this project all my musical fantasies.

It's been almost 30 years that I've been listening to music with a big passion, I started with Classic Rock & Reggäe at age of 15/17 when I played with my first college bands, and from age of 18 I started to open my mind and discover all kind of stuff with the same passion I had first with Rock.(by passion I mean: buying records at the store, checking in the booklets the name of the musicians, which year the album was recorded, and all kind of details that give more life & meaning to what we hear)

So I started to listen carefully to Soul/Funk & West Coast Music.I studied 3 years at The American School of Modern Music in Paris, that was exclusively a Jazz teaching, so 

I had no choice, I had to listen to Jazz, from Charlie Parker to Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Joe Pass, George Benson, Clifford Brown, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius to cite a few...

Later on, I had the chance to discover African Fusion Music in the clubs in Paris with the best musicians in the world (Sixun: Paco Sery, Michel Alibo.Richard Bona, Ultramarine: Etienne M'Bappé, Mario Cannonge.Guy N'Sangué, Olivier Ajavon and many more...)seing them performing every week, just a few meters from me was a real choc every time, and the best lessons ever...

I had my Latin period as well, I listened to Salsa (Sal Cuevas), Brasilian Music (Djavan, Joao Gilberto, Ed Motta...)(MPB)& Flamenco...

I love French (Michel Jonasz, Michel Polnareff, Serge Gainsbourg...) & Israeli Main Stream music too (Matti Caspi, Yehudit Ravitz, Yoni Rechter, Kaveret, Gidi Gov, Shlomo Gronich, Idan Raichel...).

Soundtracks from Movies :Ennio Morricone, Alan Sivestri.Music of Alan Parker's Movie: FAME (1980) is for me one of the best soundtrack ever!)

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I'd really love to play all those styles in my next shows, I'll do my best to open all the frontieres.

To resumate, for me,in music, there are 3 very important things when I listen to an album, no matter which style it is, I have to feel:

- Passion

- Soul

- & Concept 

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- How this "ParisTelAvivMusic" idea came to you?

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Yves Galula: After spending 6 years in Israël by playing here & there with some of the best Israeli musicians, I realised 2 things:

- First thing: there are a lot of style of music that we never hear in live concerts here in the clubs of Tel Aviv and it's a pity 'cause a lot of people here are looking for that.

- 2nd thing: I realised that one of my biggest dream would be to gather my best friends very talented musicians from Paris and from Tel Aviv on the same scene.

So did I !

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- Do you play covers or original songs?

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During one year (from june 2015 to july 2016) 

I already produced 9 shows (or sometimes co-produced with my friend Patrick Smadja from Can U Feel It Records)

.Let's say that we played 80% of covers and 20% of original songs...

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- Why more covers than original music?

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My first goal was to reach, catch & fidelise my public, the one who loves and look for the style of music I love & I play...I think I almost reached it, let's see what will happen this new year coming.

As soon as I'll be ready, as soon as I'll feel that my public is also ready to come & discover brand fresh stuff, I'LL DO IT !

I have an album of mine almost recorded and ready to mix, I'm just waiting for the right moment to finish to produce it and call all my friends very talented singers and musicians from here and there to participate.It will be the first record of ParisTelAviv Music...Amen!

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- How do you see the future of ParisTelAviv Music?next shows, concepts, locations?

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I have a lot of great ideas, one thing after another, we have 3 great shows for this autumn/winter.

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1st we're gonna invite (with co-producer Bathsheva Production) Renaud Hantson who is a great singer from Paris for 3 concerts (1 in TLV, 1 in Jerusalem & 1 in Ashdod) to pay a tribute to a great french composer called Michel Berger.

Michel (may he soul rest in peace) was composer N*1 in France in the late 70's 80's & 90's he has a lot of Number 1 in the french charts, he wrote in the beginning of the 80's one of the most important musical in France called Starmania that is a kind of classical masterpiece for all french people; Renaud Hantson was one of the lead singers in the second version of Starmania in the 90's, so it's particularly emotional to invite him in Israël for that specific show, it'll be his first time here, and the first tribute to that great composer at holly land, I'm very excited !I grew up with that music (my dear sister used to buy his records) and I think it s one of my first influence as a bass player (Pascal Arroyo, Jannick Top) that were two great bass session players in France at that time, very funky but with the french touch!

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The 2nd ParisTelAvivMusic show for the season will be a brand new show that I called :

"An evening of Jazz/Soul & Funk" - 80 years of Black American Music, with two great singers:

- Ella Tadmor pure israeli talent, a great voice and sensitivity, and

- Kassadya from Dimona who is originary from Chicago, Kassadya is for me one of the greatest american male voice in Israel in Jazz/Soul music.

We're gonna make a kind of chronological concert from the 30's to the 2000's, from Jazz to Soul & Funk with a lot of duets and beautiful famous songs.

I want people to get out of this show with the sensation of feeling & understanding the evolution and the gift of black american music to the world culture for all this time...

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