Breaking the Cycle –

“The notes come to your ears as if they were from the hand of God. If there is music in Heaven, this has to be what it sounds like.”  5/5 stars

The Examiner – Roger Reis

“The interaction between guitarist Dani Rabin, and saxophonist Danny Markovitch is magical. Marbin is pulling the most sensitive melodies from the deepest parts of their soul, and it’s up to the listener to allow the music to reach the same areas within.” 5/5 Stars

69 Faces of Rock – Mark Kadzielawa

“Marbin’s “Breaking The Cycle” is a marvel of musicianship and imagination. Every original, thoughtful song on this CD is worthy of its own album, concert, and Grammy.”  5/5 Stars

The Examiner – Carol Banks Weber

“Breaking the Cycle is recommended for any fan of jazz-rock, or anyone who likes music.” 10/10 Stars

Metal is the Law (Brazil)

“Any track you select will hold you spellbound and totally in awe of the energy these folks project!” 4.98/5 Stars

ZZaj Productions – Dick Metcalf

“If this new group Marbin is indeed indicative of what MoonJune identifies as a “recently surging Israeli-grown jazz scene”, then we’re in for some fusion good times, boys and girls. Slammin.”

FAME – Mark S. Tucker

“Breaking The Cycle combines great melodies with deep rhythmic foundation and evocative environments, providing a record that the more you hear the more like it and more elements of enjoyment are discovered.”

Distrito Jazz – José Manuel Pérez Rey (Spain)

“I love this album, and the more I listen, the more I love it. Marbin perfectly combines great melodies, rhythmic foundation with deep and evocative environments. A great way to start the year.”

Discos Pat – Francisco Macias (Spain)

“Breaking The Cycle” is an excellent album. The combination of impressive musicianship and beautiful, melodic compositions is stunning: great melodies and great improvisations. It’s like they have never done anything else. I love it.”

United Mutations

“Breaking The Cycle is an album that will reveal many hidden treasures over the plays,  the melodies are very accessible despite their complexity (isn’t that the whole success of a work of art?). With every listening this album will bring  you  a smile, a memory, a plus for the day.”

musicwaves.fr – Mr. Blue (France)

“Breaking The Cycle more than lives up to its name with a set of songs that are humorous, engaging, technically brilliant and awe inspiring and more times than not all those things simultaneously.”

Modemove – Rob Hudson

“I was impressed with the array of music here, and I was happily surprised at the quality of the entire CD. You can order it  if you want a great CD with some superior musicianship and consistently moving themes. I felt refreshed after listening to it. ”

prognaut – Lee Henderson

“Markovitch and Rabin continue to blaze their own trail by creating a powerful merger of jazz, rock, ambient and world musical styles into a sound distinctly their own.”

Chicago Jazz Net – Brad Walseth

“Fantastic album!” 13/15

musikreviews.de – Jochen König (Germany)

“Marbin has created yet another stimulating and enchanting work that explores new and fresh musical territories.”

All About Jazz – Harayr Attarian

“The beauty of this album rests in color, in the sense that Marbin’s great originality, ranging easily between many styles. The music is especially lively, poetic and romantic. Breaking The Cycle is undoubtedly a wonderful surprise for the beginning of 2011.”

artistsandbands.org – Andrea Marchegiani -(Italy)

“There’s a lot to like here on Breaking the Cycle. Marbin have come up with plenty of memorable melodies and tasty playing throughout the CD. There’s really nothing wrong you can say about anything here. It’s a classy recording from a group of very talented musicians. Chalk up another winner from MoonJune Records!”  4/5 Stars

Sea of Tranquility – Pete Pardo

“The playing is tight, tight, tight…and the two bandleaders have a wonderfully fluid style that is instantly appealing. Housed in a super slick and colorful digipak sleeve, this is one classy collection of heady and intricate music.”

Babysue

“Magnificent! This is a gorgeous, beautifully balanced album.”

Moors Magazine (Netherlands)

“Marbin’s music is genre defying, and as was the case with their debut stands up to repeated listening. Here is a band who holds steady to their vision while avoiding repetition and allowing the audience to witness their growth.”

Our Man On the Coast – Maxwell Chandler

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“Both Rabin and Markovitch are master improvisers and superlative instrumentalists who have a deep compatibility with one another, both as composers and interpreters. The impeccably recorded Marbin, is a densely layered work of highly rewarding and enjoy able music that bends genres without ever losing its thematic unity. It is important to point out that both on their solos and on the multilayered group playing each has his own unique voice, a rare find on a debut album.”

All About Jazz – Hryar Attarian

“This self-titled, dynamic release clearing conveys the sense that these players are reaching towards the distances without losing contact with one another, without sacrificing heart and soul, and proving that emotion and abstraction are not mutually exclusive.”  5/5 Stars.

CDBaby’s Editor’s Pick – 10 Artists to watch in 2010

“Rabin and Markovitch have truly made an album that is exciting and relaxing all over the course of forty minutes.”

The Deli Chicago – Album of the month – August 2009

“Marbin’s album stands up to repeated listening and is a work of art, showing that the headphone album is alive and well.”

Jazz Police – Maxwell Chandler

“Marbin’s music is like stepping into a dream, and staying there.”

Examiner – Carol Banks Weber

“What appeals the most is the originality of the songwriting and the clearly-visible chemistry. It’s what makes this album so emotionally charged. Marbin is a strange but beautiful animal.”  4.5/5 Stars

69 Faces of Rock – Mark Kadzielawa

“There’s something beautiful about a band not anxious about using silence, and the silent, the quiet and the slow are here in ample quantities. The result is slow-building crescendos, and many of them; with each one seeming all the more powerful for the subtle ambience that precedes it.”

Pith magazine – James Hendicott

“The Israeli duo (now based in Chicago) has crafted some gorgeous, mellow mood music on its self-titled debut”

Jambase.com

“While not forsaking traditional jazz, Marbin has stepped into a new arena and introduced a dynamic collection of songs that should be welcomed by a vast array of both jazz and world music fans.”

Chicks With Guns (CWG) Magazine – Warren J. McCrickard

“Your ears need to open up and be graced with the music of Marbin.”

Buzz Magazine Chicago

“Markovich and Rabin have succeeded in updating jazz with a twenty-first century sound that still manages to nod to the genre’s twentieth century roots.”

This, A Literary Webzine – Lacey N. Dunham

“The instrumental work on Marbin is exquisite. It’s hard to imagine anyone not finding at least something to like here”

Wildy’s World of Music

“There’s no denying the duo’s musical capabilities. Dani Rabin’s guitar and Danny Markovich’s smooth saxophones complement one another no matter the listener’s cultural background.”

Illinois Entertainer – Andy Argyrakis

“Throughout, the two musicians create a layered sonic atmosphere that is quite an entrancing experience for the listener. A compelling debut.”

JazzChicago.net – Brad Walseth

“The quiet nature and perfectly still life of the music belies the poignant emotional underbelly that simmers constantly throughout the set. That this emotion is deeply personal is evident from the meditative—almost ponderous—nature of much of the music, but the conundrum is further heightened by the fact that what connectsMarbin to their music is also a seemingly universal longing for a oneness with all things past, present and future.”

All About Jazz – Raul D’Gama Rose

“An influence of Dave Gilmour and Al DiMeola can be heard within the guitar which are tough acts to duplicate in any kind of a way. On Saxophone the sounds of Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, and John Coltrane can be heard within the wonderful melodic runs. Together these two fantastic musicians make up the sweet group called Marbin.”

Examiner – Roger Reis

“Marbin (Danny Markovitch on sax and Dani Rabin on guitar) is an unusually effective pairing because both can easily assume lead or support role” 3.5/5 stars

Progression Magazine – Jason M. Rubin

“A very strong debut of a duo that give their own interpretation to jazz”

Folkworld

“Dani Rabin and Danny Markovitch are excellent musicians and their compositions are well packaged gems”

All About Jazz Italy -Mauritius Comandini

“Marbin, where strange guitar and saxophone combine to create subtle and colorful moods.”

Progressia Magazine (Italy) – Mathieu Carre

“There is a strong sense of peace, both inward and outward. There is the evocation of travel to open lands and solar and all very positive.”

Arlequins (Italy) – Roberto Vanali

“Quietly insistent and hauntingly melodic, but with plenty of room for both soloists to stretch out. It’s all very laid back, but the great musicianship will keep you intrigued.”

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