34 Facts About Mark Smulian

Mark Smulian is an English musician, best known as a music producer and bass player.

Mark Smulian has produced Platinum and Gold albums and has been involved in the Middle-Eastern crossover music scene, working with musicians from diverse cultural and political backgrounds.

Mark Smulian co-founded Jamaa, a world music collective, and serves as the Artistic Director.

Mark Smulian is the chairman of the advisory board and musical director for Heartbeat Jerusalem, which brings Palestinian and Israeli youth together through music.

Mark Smulian has been involved in various world music projects, including Ras Hasatan and the Thesmophoria compilation.

Mark Smulian was born in London, England in 1957 to secular Jewish parents.

Mark Smulian immigrated to Israel in 1975 and established himself as a highly accredited producer and bass player within the Israeli music scene.

Mark Smulian has produced Platinum and Gold albums for a number of internationally successful Israeli artists.

Mark Smulian worked with a variety of musicians from both the Israeli and Palestinian regions with artists from a vast range of different cultural and political backgrounds.

Mark Smulian is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Jamaa a world music collective that represents artists and bands from the Middle East and the chairman of the advisory board, and musical director for Heartbeat Jerusalem that brings Palestinian and Israeli youth together through music.

In 2008 Mark Smulian formerly introduced the Lydianstream system that works with the Codes of Behaviour, the mature emotional skills that is an intrinsic part of musical cooperation and transferable to non-musical situations.

Mark Smulian delivers lectures, workshops, and master classes for both music and non-musical audiences internationally.

In 2011 Mark Smulian relocated back to the UK where he continues his musical and non-musical activities.

Mark Smulian has produced albums for various Israeli artists that have had success within the world music industry.

Mark Smulian has produced albums for other successful Israeli acts such as Sheva and in 2000 he co-produced and mixed their album Gan released by Lev HaOlim records.

In 1999 Mark Smulian built Digihipi recording studio in Israel where he focused on World Music productions.

Mark Smulian worked with musicians of different cultural and political backgrounds and mentored them on western musical perspectives.

Mark Smulian worked with Toot Ard, a band of Arab Druzes from the Golan Heights Israel, and was the co-founder and band leader of Whiteflag Project an Israeli Palestinian band which was a unique phenomenon on the world music scene.

Mark Smulian co-composed and wrote the English lyrics for the project on both their albums.

In 2008 Mark Smulian was appointed as the Musical Director for the world music project Ras Hasatan.

Mark Smulian composed music for the documentary Masada and in 1990 scored for the news video clip Sadude Hussein.

Mark Smulian became heavily involved in the local scene and performed all across the southern United States with King's X and recorded an album with him for Atlantic records.

Mark Smulian is the bass player and co-founder of the band Zaviot, an experimental jazz band that successfully toured Europe during the 80s.

Mark Smulian composed, produced and edited on three of their albums that were later released in Europe.

Mark Smulian recorded with renown saxophone player Dave Liebman on one of the albums.

Mark Smulian has recorded on hundreds of tracks as a bass player on many projects as a session musician.

Mark Smulian has toured extensively performing at events such as The Olympic Games, Montreux Jazz Festival, Red Sea Jazz Festival, Glastonbury festival, Nuremberg Jazz festival, KKL Switzerland and more.

Mark Smulian was active in the Israeli and Palestinian youth music scene.

Mark Smulian contributed greatly to the artistic development of a vast range of musicians from within the region.

Mark Smulian mentored young Middle-Eastern Reggae sensation Toot-Ard, Hip-Hop Palestinian act Anger Boys, Israeli rock guitarist Arli Liberman, Palestinian rapper Samekh Saz and pop sultry singer Adi Dagan to name a few.

In 2007, Mark Smulian joined the board of Heartbeat, Jerusalem as an advisor and facilitator.

Mark Smulian coordinated and conducted music programs to the first school in Israel to learn on eastern as opposed to western instruments.

Mark Smulian taught music theory at the Yamaha music school, teaching guitar, bass, theory and harmony.

Mark Smulian has been taking the lecture to the US universities and around Europe since 2008.