	NEW ALBUM RELEASE Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble's new album REFUGE was released on OCTOBER 1 2007. Expect hard hitting, edgy, urban electro-acoustic jazz from Atzmon’s superb ensemble. Combining bebop with middle-eastern influences, new music and electronica, Orient House create a musical landscape like no other outfit around on the UK jazz scene today. Drawing on jazz, electronica, Arabic music and the sounds of the city, the new album is a potent melting pot of 21st century sounds taking the listener to a space beyond words. Shifting from jazz noir and Arabic flavoured grooves to heavy metal bebop it's music for the heart and the head and is the sound of a band running full steam into the future. Gilad Atzmon saxophones, clarinet and electronics, Frank Harrison keyboards and electronics, Yaron Stavi double & electric bass and Asaf Sirkis drums. “.....the fifth album of the Orient House Ensemble finds Atzmon discovering the power of understatement... The individuality of the music is extraordinary.” ** Alan Brownlee, MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS Gilad and the Orient House Ensemble continue a major UK tour to promote REFUGE in 2008. See below for full tour dates. For REFUGE** press enquiries: Kerstan Mackness . Riotsquad Publicity . EMAIL Kerstan
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TRACK LIST AUTUMN IN BAGHDAD SPRING IN NEW YORK IN THE SMALL HOURS THE BURNING BUSH HER SMILE HER TEARS MY REFUGE JUST ANOTHER PRAYER FOR PEACE	The album was released on October 1 2007 but you can hear a preview here... CLICK HERE to email your comments...
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	BEING IN TIME When I founded the Orient House Ensemble in 2000, I had just a few tunes in mind, but I also had a great belief. I was sure that music was capable of bringing people together. I was totally convinced that music could heal the wounds of the past. I was sure that music was a message of peace. I was confident that if rivals could make it into a song, they can easily learn to live together. Eight years later, I must admit that I may have got it wrong. This is our fifth album. We have performed hundreds of concerts around the world and somehow peace is nowhere near. Every other day a new conflict comes to life. Once a week, a newly born fear is shaped into a sinister agenda wrapped in an image of Western goodness. As far as my homeland is concerned, peace has never looked so far away. The world is indeed becoming more and more hostile. Yet, we, the Orient House Ensemble, have done something, a thing that has very little cosmic significance. We have learned to sing together. We didn't plan to learn, we didn't educate ourselves. It just grew on us. Over the years our personal fears faded away. Our insecurities melted down. Without realising it, our music made it into a language with some very personal shapes and colours. Music has become our refuge. I was wrong regarding music as messenger. I was wrong referring to music as an idea or ideology. Music is not a messenger, it is actually the message. Music doesn't belong to man. It is the other way around, man belongs to music. Music speaks itself through man. Music comes into play when thoughts pass away, consciousness disintegrates and ideologies implode. Music is the true Being in Time. Just give it time and let it be. Enjoy Yourself. Gilad Atzmon

GILAD ATZMON AND THE ORIENT HOUSE ENSEMBLE

THE REFUGE TOUR 2008

(FURTHER DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED)

Sat 19 Jan	GATESHEAD Sage Centre	0191 443 4661	www.thesagegateshead.org
Fri 25 Jan	OXFORD Carswell Golf & Country Club	01367 710593	www.oxfordlivejazz.com
Sat 26 Jan	LONDON 606 Club	020 7352 5953	www.606club.co.uk
Sun 27 Jan	Welwyn Garden City Jazz at the Fairway	01992 550230	www.hertsjazz.co.uk/JATF.htm
Wed 30 Jan	COLCHESTER JAZZ at the Lakeside, Lakeside Theatre Uni of Essex, presented by SEGUE PRODUCTIONS	01206 873261	www.wegottickets.com
Thur 31 Jan	NOTTINGHAM Bonnington Theatre	0115 9670114	www.jazzsteps.co.uk
Fri 15 Feb	PETERBOROUGH Peterborough Jazz Club, Great Northern Hotel	01733 571764	www.peterboroughjazzclub.co.uk
Sat 16 Feb	TUNBRIDGE WELLS Trinity Theatre	01892 678 678	www.trinitytheatre.net
Fri 22 - Sat 23 Feb	LONDON The Vortex	020 7254 4097	www.vortexjazz.co.uk
Thur 28 Feb	ABERDEEN The Blue Lamp	01224 619770	www.jazzscotland.com
Mon 3 Mar	EXETER Exeter Vibraphonic Festival	01392 265885	www.vibraphonic.co.uk
7-18 Mar	GERMANY & AUSTRIA dates to be announced
Sat 29 Mar	LONDON 606 Club	020 7352 5953	www.606club.co.uk
Sun 20 Apr	IPSWICH Jazz Club	01473 231 552	www.ipswichjazzclub.co.uk
Sat 10 May	LIVERPOOL Writing on the Wall Festival	0151 707 4313	www.writingonthewall.org.uk
Sun 25 May	BATH Bath Festival
Thur 12 June	YORK Late Music Festival
Sat 13 Sept	ST ALBANS Maltings Arts Theatre

THE REFUGE TOUR - AUTUMN 2007

Fri 7 Sept	BRIGHTON Brighton Jazz Club	01273 647100	www.brightonjazzclub.co.uk
Sat 15 Sept	BRENTWOOD B2007 Festival, Brentwood Theatre	01277 200300	www.hermit-live.com
Mon 17 Sept	APPLEDORE North Devon Jazz, The Beaver Inn	01237 474822	www.beaverinn.co.uk
Tue 18 Sept	ST IVES St Ives Jazz Club with St Ives September Festival	01736 796082	www.stivesjazzclub.com
Sat 22 Sept	SWANSEA Taliesin Arts Centre	01792 602060	www.taliesinartscentre.co.uk
Sun 23 Sept	CHESTER Alexander's	01244 340005	www.alexandersjazz.com
Thurs 27 Sept	SOUTHEND-ON-SEA Cliff's Pavilion	01702 351135	www.thecliffspavilion.co.uk
Fri 28 Sept	SHEFFIELD Sheffield Jazz Club	0114 276 7093	www.sheffieldjazz.org.uk
Sat 29 Sept	SALISBURY The Huntsman Tavern	07960 021459
Sun 30 Sept	STRATFORD-UPON-AVON The White Swan	01789 298607	www.stratfordjazz.org.uk
Tues 2 Oct	CHATHAM Brook Theatre	01634 338338	www.medway.gov.uk
Thurs 4 Oct	LONDON SOAS Students Union		www.soasunion.org
Fri 5 Oct	LONDON 606 Club	020 7352 5953	www.606club.co.uk
Sat 6 Oct	DARMSTADT Centralstation		www.centralstation-darmstadt.de
Sun 7 Oct	COLCHESTER Colchester Arts Centre	01206 500900	www.colchesterartscentre.com
Tues 9 Oct	RAWTENSTALL Rawtenstall Rhythm Station	0161 796 0275	www.dunrhythm.co.uk
Wed 10 Oct	DERBY Derby Jazz Club	01332 255800	www.derby-jazz.co.uk
Fri 12 Oct	WAKEFIELD Wakefield Jazz Club	01977 680542	www.wakefieldjazz.org.uk
Sat 13 Oct	COVENTRY Taylor John’s House	024 7655 9958	www.thetinangel.co.uk
Sun 14 Oct	BRISTOL Colstan Hall Bar	0117 922 3686	www.colstonhall.org
Thurs 18 & Fri 19 Oct	MANCHESTER Matt and Phreds	0161 831 7002	www.mattandphreds.com
Sat 20 Oct	WHITBY Musicport 07 World Music Festival	01274 833669	www.whitbymusicport.com
Sun 21 Oct	NOTTINGHAM The Britannia Boat Club	07968 173208	dave_groom@hotmail.com
Wed 24 Oct	HASTINGS Hastings Jazz Club, Venue M	07951 477 694	www.hastingsjazzclub.co.uk
Sat 27 Oct	SHERBORNE Sherborne Jazz Club	07904 007 869	www.sherbornejazz.org.uk
Thurs 22 Nov	LEEDS The Venue, Leeds College of Music	0113 222 3434	www.lcm.ac.uk
Wed 28 Nov	NORWICH Norwich Arts Centre	01603 660352	www.norwichartscentre.co.uk
Thurs 29 Nov - Sun 2 Dec	LONDON Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho	020 7734 3220	www.pizzaexpresslive.co.uk
Sat 8 Dec	OXFORD OCM @ Wesley Memorial Church	0870 750 0659	www.ocmevents.org

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GILAD ATZMON AND THE ORIENT HOUSE ENSEMBLE

THE REFUGE TOUR - AUTUMN 2007