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APPEARANCES ON STAGE AND IN THE MEDIA:

Festivals:
• South by Southwest
• CMJ
• Sephardic Music Festival
• 40 Days 40 Days Nights Tour
• New York Jewish Music & Heritage Festival
• Hip Hop Sulha
• Limmud Festival (Germany, Australia, Ukraine )
• Trinity International Hip Hop Festival


Highlight Shows:
• Irving Plaza (NY) with Idan Raichel & Matisyahu
• Roxy (Boston) with Hadag Nachash
• The East Brunswick Club (Melbourne) with Y-Love, Mista Savona & Curse ov Dialect
• Metro (Paris) with Yoni
• SOBs (NY) with KRS ONE & Funk Master Flex
• Central Park Summer Stage (NY) with Mosh Ben Ari
• The Babylon Cinema (Berlin)
• Canal Room (NY) with DJ Rekha & DJ Shotnez of Balkan Beat Box
• Drom (Moscow)
• Cargo (London) with Filistine


TV Appearances:
• BBC World TV
• CBS featured on "Faith Music & Culture" Documentary
• London & Kirshenbaum Talk Show (Israel TV Channel 10)
• NY1 about his Sephardic Music Festival


Radio Appearances:

• NPR (US)
• PBS (Melbourne)
• WNYC
• BBC

Selected PRESS:

* Jpost feature (read)
* Urb.com
(read)
* Jewish Week feature (read 1) (read 2)
* Time Out (read)
* Jewcy feature (read)
* Jerusalem Billboard cover story (read)
* Forward
Top 50
(read)
* Washington City Paper
review of Diwon's Shemspeed launch
(read)

* JTA interview with Diwon about "The Beat Guide" (click here to read)

QUOTES:


"His company has graced Billboard magazine and he has been featured from NPR to USA Today to name a few media outlets; A combination of sounds, Erez Safar known as Diwon has become the change that rappers, electro-beat and world music lovers have been craving." - Music International News

"Diwon is something else …in a profound kind of way. The New Yorker gets crafty when it comes to beats by extracting world music—mainly traditional Yemenite music-- and fusing it with electro hip hop; creating a titillating sound that’s juicy and for the ears. His musical influence developed from his migration from Yemen to Ethiopia to Israel. Among his myriad of aliases, he is better known as Erez Safar a producer/drummer/DJ/as necessary singer, who champions himself on representing Jewish culture to the fullest. When he’s not on the 1’s and 2’s, he’s busy running Shemspeed (music website) and Modular Moods (independent record label) and a couple of music festivals. Check out Idan Raichel vs. Kid Sister from his remix album That Yemenite Kid. Yeah, it’s fire." - Nicole Dawley, URB Magazine

"one of New York's hottest Jewish musicians;"
- London Radio's 104.4 FM

"as producer and DJ is among the most adventurous and banging on the new Jewish music scene;" - The Village Voice

"Jewish music's multimedia mogul;"
- the Jerusalem Post

"Top 50 most influential Jews" - Forward, 2007




Erez Safar
Shemspeed PR
erez@shemspeed.com
718.290.5372
www.shemspeed.com