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With their sixth album, What We Are Made Of (ACT, 03/2026), SHALOSH turns inward while sounding more expansive than ever. The record is a deep dive into the trio’s musical DNA, tracing the influences, instincts, and emotional forces that have shaped their shared language over years of close collaboration and relentless touring.
Blending original compositions with boldly reimagined cover versions, the album moves fluidly between raw groove, lyrical introspection, and moments of unrestrained intensity. Jazz is present not as a genre boundary but as an attitude — open, physical, and constantly in motion — allowing elements of rock, classical music, and popular song to coexist naturally within the trio’s highly focused sound.
Recorded with the immediacy and risk-taking that define SHALOSH’s live performances, What We Are Made Of captures the band at its most direct and personal. On stage, the material becomes a living organism: elastic, volatile, and deeply communicative, driven by the rare chemistry of three musicians who think, react, and breathe as one. In Berlin, SHALOSH presents this new chapter as a powerful live experience that blurs the line between concert and collective release.
Press
Exhibiting influences as far flung as prog-rock to their Middle Eastern roots, the trio’s collaborative story moves with a distinguished and dexterous fury!”
– All About Jazz
“Heavy Jazz!”
– Rolling Stone Magazine, DE
“The power of rock spiced up with pop appeal and the dexterity of excellent jazz musicians”
– JazzThing, DE
“It’s all beautifully played with moods and melodies allowed to develop and unfold gradually with repeating elements building intensity, the group dynamic as important as overt solo sections.”
– London Jazz News, UK
“I really fell in love with Shalosh”
– Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2, UK
“Shalosh are full of promise. * * * *”
– The Times, UK
“Israeli piano trio Shalosh’s virtuosic Onwards and Upwards vivaciously taps the Bad Plus, Ahmad Jamal, the hooks and rock crescendos of Esbjörn Svensson Trio and more.“
– The Guardian, UK
“The music is so perfect that it’s almost enough to make you reflect on fate and destiny.”
– All About Jazz, US
“Shalosh’s repertoire draws on rock, classical and world music. This eclecticism plays out intriguingly in their work. Pianist Gadi Stern, bassist David Michaeli and drummer Matan Assayag give as much attention to form and building tension as their rock and classical brethren but don’t sacrifice improvisatory ethos.”
– Downbeat, US
“For more than ten years, the trio Shalosh has been one of the most internationally acclaimed figureheads of the dazzling Israeli jazz scene.”
– Likehifi, DE