Udi Shlomo

Udi Shlomo is a drummer, composer and arranger, living and active in Norway (Trondheim) since 2010, originally from Kibbutz Nahshon (IL), with roots from Iraq, Poland and former Czechoslovakia. This diverse background is being expressed in Shlomo's music, that combines original compositions that are inspired by memories, pictures, stories and nature from his early life in the kibbutz, together with new arrangements of traditional Jewish music, and colored by the experience of life in Norway, away from the root, in the diaspora. This blend of cultures creates what today is called "World Jazz"

"…Shlomo's percussion is in fact one of the most compelling aspects (...) he is all over his kit, splashing and clicking and ticking and thumping and rattling, sometimes with clear timing and patterns, sometimes just adding percussive color, and other times just flailing about even though he always remains purposeful and very, very clean. There are moments where his ability to produce what we hear with only his two hands and feet is shrouded in mystery...” ~ Brian S. Lunde - jazzreview.com