Orphaned Land Sahara

Orphaned Land is a progressive metal band from Petah Tikva, Israel, formed in 1991. They combine oriental elements and traditional Jewish folk music with extreme progressive metal sound.
Their album Sahara (1994) was the first to include a combination of death metal and traditional oriental music. In their second album El Norra Alila (1996), Orphaned Land elaborated the combination of metal and oriental music, including the addition of song with traditional oriental Jewish piyyut and Arab melodies. This album conveyed a message of co-existence between Jews and Muslims…

Yossi Sassi is a veteran producer, composer and musician in Israel, perhaps best known for being a founding member of progressive metal band Orphaned Land. Come 2012 and Sassi expanded his career further by recording and releasing his first ever solo album "Melting Clocks". A production where he continues his habit of exploring music crossing cultural and stylistic borders. It is a conceptual album about the daily routines of life and choosing between the path that is known and the path you truly desire inside your heart. Guitar-oriented oriental rock with prog leanings: this might be the best way to describe Yossi Sassi's first solo album.