The Israeli Composer Who Writes Indian Muslim Music and Collaborates With Radiohead's Guitarist

Shye Ben-Tzur had been composing Indian devotional music for over a decade before he was a subject in the Paul Thomas Anderson documentary 'Junun.'

Gabe Friedman for Haaretz

JTA - For most musicians working in the underappreciated genre of world music, recording an album with Jonny Greenwood, the guitarist of the famed English rock band Radiohead, would be something of a pipe dream.

And what about having that experience filmed by acclaimed director Paul Thomas Anderson (“There Will Be Blood,” “The Master,” “Boogie Nights”)? That would be the icing on a very delicious artistic cake.

Israeli composer and singer Shye Ben-Tzur was lucky enough to make this incredible cake — and now he’s eating it, too.

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