Yoshie Fruchter
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Yehoshua Fruchter |
| Born |
1 February 1982 Silver Spring, MD |
| Genres | Jazz, klezmer, world music, rock, heavy metal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Guitar, bass, oud, mandolin |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Labels |
Tzadik Records Blue Thread Music |
| Associated acts | Pitom Schizophonia Asefa Willamette Jon Madof Deveykus Yiddish Princess Moshav Shanir Blumenkranz Soulfarm Eitan Katz Joey Weisenberg |
| Website | yoshiefruchter.com |
Yoshie Fruchter (born February 1, 1982) is an American experimental jazz guitarist, bassist, oud player and composer.
Fruchter was born and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland, in an Orthodox Jewish household, singing and playing Jewish music in his youth. His father is a musician, and his sister Temim is the former drummer of the indie punk band The Shondes. He studied jazz in the music department at the University of Maryland, and moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 2005.
Fruchter's debut solo album as composer and guitarist, Pitom, was released in 2008. The Wall Street Journal called it "a dazzling debut" and JazzTimes called the debut "audacious," describing it as klezmer music with a punk sensibility. "Pitom" is Hebrew for "Suddenly," and the album was named after his band, which, along with Fruchter on guitar, includes Jeremy Brown (violin), Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) and Kevin Zubek (drums).
Pitom's second album, Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes, was released in 2011. Fruchter again composed and played guitar, with the album further exploring Jewish music along with surf and sludge metal influences. The album was chosen by The Forward as one of the newspaper's 2011 Forward Fives, an annual list honoring five of the most important Jewish music releases of the year.
Fruchter's music combines elements of jazz, klezmer, rock, surf and heavy metal, while exploring themes of God, religion, repentance and redemption. Both Pitom albums have been released on John Zorn's Tzadik Records label. Fruchter has been described as a member of the "Radical Jewish Culture" scene, a term coined by Zorn.
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