Between sitting in zoom and preparing a meal to play with the kids, you need some culture for the soul • Get five new Israeli albums that you should spend time listening to.
"Stage, audience and love" / Yishai Ribo
In the not so distant past every artist had to have a live album in his repertoire.
For the musician, it was another product that hit the market, satisfying the hunger of the fans and on the way promoting the show itself.
Since then, the show has become the main source of income, and the concept of the live performance album has somewhat disappeared.
And here Yishai Ribo is now releasing a triple album (!) And emphasizes that this is not a live album but a live album.
Ribo's best live clips from recent years are concentrated here - from performances from various amphitheaters in 2017 to performances at the Tower of David Museum last summer.
The first album is dedicated to selected performances, the third contains commentaries on texts by Rabbi Yonatan Zacks and Sivan Rahav Meir, but the second is on the second album, which includes stage collaborations with names like Shlomo Artzi, Omer Adam, Ehud Banai, Shuli Rand, Natan Goshen and others.
"Cleanliness", "Hands" / The second wave
It is no secret that most musicians in Israel found themselves inactive and incomeless during the Corona period.
Losing a frame can lead the artist to bad places, but is also able to bring out bursts of creativity.
This is the concept of "The Second Wave", a project under the artistic direction of former collective member, Roy Rick.
In two albums - "Cleaning" and "Hands" - the best Israeli indie artists joined a supergroup that includes Gilad Kahana, Doron Talmon (Jane Bordeaux), Maya Belzitzman, Yael Shoshana Cohen, Rotem Bar Or, Yossi Mizrahi, Mika Sadeh, Tomer Yeshayahu , Gon Ben Ari, Idan Rabinovich and many more good ones.
The songs are intertwined with passages from the best radio voices of the scene, including Kwame, Saar Gamzo and Leon Feldman, which give the whole business a sense of "Radio Bella Bella" for the days of the Corona.
"Re and clean" / Sharon Holtzman
Sharon Holtzman, a former member of the former prototype band, had a difficult year.
Mental and physical crises led him to difficult and complex personal and professional places, in a kind of not very photogenic rock'n'roll self-destruction campaign.
Today he is in a better place, and he describes the process of cleansing and maturation he went through in "Renewable and Clean", an album whose name speaks for itself.
Among all the hustle and bustle, we almost forgot that Holtzman is a talented rock and pop writer, who has signed hits such as "Good Morning World", "What I Want" and "On the Way to Milwaukee" by Iggy Waxman.
The new album also contains quite a few beautiful songs, including the ballad of the theme song that tells the whole story.
"My life is too short and terribly long" / Aya Zehavi Feiglin
A different kind of crisis is the one experienced by Aya Zehavi Feiglin, a former (and in fact occasional) lead singer of the band "All My Studs".
A creative crisis, a writing barrier, they called him whatever you wanted, but the musician decided not to give in to him.
Over the past year she has initiated small performances under the title "Let's Hear the New Songs" (though there were not many), and has actually used her audience and stage as a means of examining new and emerging material.
The method turned out to be effective and spawned an album full of songs about anxiety, self-confidence and love.
That is, the content that usually makes up the textual and musical world of Zehavi Feiglin.
"en Casa Limón" / David Broza
Given his playing abilities, which go before him, it's hard to believe that David Broza is just releasing an instrumental album.
This is a collection of clips recorded at Casa Limón Studios in Madrid, with Broza teaming up with Grammy-winning producer Javier Lemon, and demonstrating the virtuosity that made him an Israeli guitar hero.
The connection with Lemon, who has worked with names like Paco de Lucia, Caitano and Luzo and Elisha Keys, seems to have brought out the best in Broza - a musician who understands a thing or two about the capillaries of emotion and rhythm.
Flamenco and Spanish guitars meet other musical influences, on an album that those who miss the singer's famous sunrise performances will love.
By the way, Broza says that the materials for this album were also written under the auspices of Twilight Dawn.
Maybe he should check out this insomnia thing.