Bio:
Liron was born in 1985 in Jerusalem. As a child she studied guitar and piano, and after encountering Egyptian music and rhythm on vacations in the Sinai desert, she started taking private lessons for darbuka and djembe. At twenty she began pursuing Eastern music studies in Jerusalem, where she delved into the rich tradition of ancient Jewish hymns, and broadened her repertoire with the frame drum, the Riq, and other percussion instruments.
In 2007 Liron travelled to Europe for a year to volunteer in agricultural projects, where she discovered old traditions of Flamenco singing (southern Spain), and Tarantella music in southern Italy. She worked on a farm, learning different agricultural skills such as cheesemaking, shepherding, picking. During this time she first picked up the Swiss Hang drum. In this atmosphere of nature and seclusion, inspiration was abundant and Liron wrote, sang and performed, meeting local people, drifters and musicians on the nomadic circuit. These experiences were an important stepping stone in the evolution of Liron’s global musical identity.
The year 2008 saw Liron travelling to West Africa (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Conakry) for humanitarian projects with the Spanish NGO Pasos Positivos. In Guinea Conakry she spent two months studying traditional West African drumming and dance, she played weddings and other traditional ceremonies with a groupe of Guinean musicians.
Liron applied and got accepted to Siena Jazz Academy in Italy, specializing in world percussion with an emphasis on Jazz. She played ensembles and studied piano and trumpet. During her studies she discovered Afro Jazz and played with musicians from Griotte Dembele’, a family of musicians from Ivory Coast. As well in Italy she worked for a musical circus troupe (Cantiere Ikrea), performing Italy, Russia and Poland. Years of successive travelling and living in different location were continually shaping Liron’s identity as a nomad.
Liron returned to Israel where she received a scholarship for Outstanding Musician from the ministry of immigration, and began performing with her own music. Liron has participated in exciting collaborations with dance groups such as Bat Sheva , acclaimed Israeli musician Kutiman’s project “Through Tel Aviv”, Cafe GIbraltar , Etti Ankri, Maurice Almadiuni and others. As well, Liron has been active in peace and coexistence projects, performing as a duo with Palestinian female Oud player Helen Sabila from Bethlehem. As well, Liron has hosted workshops for Arab and Jewish children and participated in the Women Wage Peace marches ( 2016-2018).
In 2013 Liron toured the Czech Republic, taking part in a project called ‘’Gathering of Drummers”, as the only female performer. As well she represented Israel in “Women in Jazz” in Rome. In 2014 she launched “La Gitana” project, performing as trio all over Israel. In she 2016 toured Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, garnering a warm reception from the East European crowd. She performed solo in Italy - Rome and Florence, established female percussion trio “Malaika Trio” (Angel Trio in Swahili) and performed all over Israel and Switzerland, recording an album in 2016. Over the last three years she played and sang in Portugal, Spain,Italy, France and Croatia with the international project “Sois 7 Luas”, A Portuguese initiative uniting musicians from around the Mediterranean.
Liron recorded her first full length LP “La Gitana” in 2018. The album was produced by Yael Deckelbaum and includes influences from Jewish texts, African rhythm, Italian folklore and many more. The album was supported by a successful crowdfunding campaign and was followed by a tour of Italy and currently Israel. As well, over the last two years Liron has collaborated and recorded for Spanish guitar maestro Estas Tonne (for his “Mother of Souls” album) and celebrated Ecuadorian electronic artist Nicola Cruz.
In 2017 Liron finished her B.ed musical education studies in Tel Aviv university, with the specialist with disable people.
From 2018 till now Liron is touring Israel & Europe with her project as solo artist or trio.
In the summer of 2019 Liron toured Europe, the USA & Canada with the American singer Peia, as her percussionist.
Liron is the first Israeli percussionist to be endorsed by Meinl Percussion in Germany.
Lessons/Workshops:
Oriental Beats:
A Percussion Workshop by Liron Meyuhas
Goals:
Introducing percussion techniques from North Africa, the Middle East and Turkey. Participants will become acquainted with different percussion instruments from the Mediterranean basin.
Method:
Introduction to different instruments, technical practice, percussion ensemble
Equipment Requirements:
Each participant brings his own drum. Recommended drums: Darbuka / Djembe / Frame drum
Instruments brought by Liron:
Hang drum, kalabash, Riq.
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay. They paid.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).