Shotnez - Dose A Nova (2022)

Two decades since they formed in New York City and over ten years since their last album, Tel Aviv based quartet Shotnez are back with Dose a Nova, an album of 10 exhilarating jazz filtered jams, with vibrations indebted to tuareg desert blues, Ethiopian-jazz, 1950's Afro Cuban recordings, surf- rock and folk from across the East Mediterranean basin.

Dose A Nova is a smoky affair with jazz the common denominator through its ebb and flow. Oozing in globally recognisable grooves from Afrobeat (Contagious) to Afro Cuban (Shemesh), its chord structures and scales from east and west insistently interweave rewarding the record with dynamic mood swings. There is a punked out, baritone sax inspired workout in Gina, Middle Eastern traditions, claps and vocals combine on Marhaba and guitar and a heavy sax lick drives the surf sound of Last Straw.

Ori Kaplan - Alto Sax, Baritone sax, Clarinet
Uri Brauner Kinrot - Guitar
Itamar Ziegler - Bass and Percussion
Tamir Muskat - Drums and Percussion
Assaf Talmudi - Keyboards on “Last Straw”
Hassan Ben Jaafar - Vocals on “Marhaba”



Tracklist:
1.01 - Shotnez - Last Straw (4:34)
1.02 - Shotnez - Dose A Nova (5:40)
1.03 - Shotnez - Marhaba (3:52)
1.04 - Shotnez - Quadro Life (4:18)
1.05 - Shotnez - Contagious (4:40)
1.06 - Shotnez - Shemesh (4:03)
1.07 - Shotnez - Gina (3:46)
1.08 - Shotnez - Botz (5:11)
1.09 - Shotnez - Very Good Year (2:59)