Some records document emotion; others document time. Sunrise to Sunset, the new 10-track concept album from percussionist and composer Liron Meyuhas, does both: mapping the soft topography of a full day through rhythm, intuition, and deep listening. Performed entirely live, the project moves from the stillness of early morning to the slow unwinding of dusk, capturing the quiet rituals that frame our hours.
Meyuhas was inspired to create Sunrise to Sunset based on the thought that each moment of the day holds its own energy. All recorded live, the session was an invitation for Meyuhas to experiment, improvise, and create within those shifting energies.
The album’s standout track, “8AM Morning Balafone” beckons the aftermath of the dawn. Meyuhas shares, “This is the second track, after the first coffee, stretching the mind and the body and getting ready for the day.” The track captures that liminal moment between rest and movement – complete with singing bowls, congas, udu, balafon, shakers, bells, and more.
Across the album, Meyuhas treats rhythm as a living organism, something responsive and cyclical rather than fixed. The project’s 35 percussion instruments become voices in a larger ecosystem: global, ancient, contemporary, and deeply personal. As day stretches into its golden hours, the music loosens, expands, exhales; by nightfall, Sunrise to Sunset becomes a meditation on release, closing the loop with the kind of quiet only reached through movement.
Meyuhas’ story is one of continual exploration. Known as Israel’s first female Hang drum artist, she has spent two decades travelling through the global language of rhythm: studying West African tradition in Senegal and Guinea Conakry, jazz in Italy, frame drum and darbuka in Turkey, Arabic drumming in Sinai. Her collaborations span continents and disciplines, from PEIA and Kutiman to the Batsheva and Yasmeen Godder dance companies. She’s performed everywhere from small community spaces to the Rome Colosseum, carving out her place as a leading figure in contemporary world percussion.
Sunrise to Sunset, released through Shoulder Tone Records Distribution / The Orchard (Sony Music), feels like a culmination and a re-opening: a return to intuition after years of global movement. It’s a document of time as a companion: a full day rendered in rhythm, breath, and the quiet revelations hiding between sunrise and nightfall.
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