ANISTAR plays an innovative blend of Jazz, Mediterrenean and Traditional Middle-Eastern music.

By mixing traditional instruments, forms and harmonies together with a modern Jazz conception, ANISTAR melding the sounds of the desert with the contemporary urban landscape of New York City.
Harel Shachal launched the ANISTAR Group in Spring of 2002 with the mission of using music to overcome fear and break down boundaries between historically estranged cultures.

Assembling its own unique sound from the various musical traditions of the Middle-East, Mediterranean, Africa, and America, ANISTAR is at once inviting and challenging, familiar and exotic, ancient and modern.
Anistar is performing regularly in venues such as Kush, Rainbow Room, Tonic, Sattalla, Tichman Hall and others.

The musicians of ANISTAR are:

Harel Shachal on G Clarinet, Soprano & Alto Saxophones

Skye Steele on Violin

Christopher Hoffman on Cello

Harvey Valdez on Oud

Alon Carmelly on Bass

E.J. Fry On Frame Drum & Ocean Drum

John Hadfield on Dumbek, Riqq & Kanjira

Uri Sharlin on Accordion

Tomer Tzur on Riqq and Dumbek

Assaf Hakimi on Bass

Other guests on recording and shows are:

Eran Glantz on Ney, Jay Vilnai on Guitar, Kenny Growhoski, Dan Aran on Percussions, Andy Miccolis on Bass, Megan Weeder on Violin, Dan Zanker on Bass and Ramzi Edlibi, Liron Peled ,Dudu Buchbut on Dumbek and Riqq and many other musicians.
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