Amdursky: Keep the protest out of the music Israel today

Assaf Amdursky's new song is a simple, drama-free love song, and has no expression of the critic's criticism expressed during the corona

• Gifted songwriter.

  Amdursky

  Photography: 

  Michael Topiol

One of the few Israeli musicians who made up here directly and clearly with the government during the Corona crisis is Assaf Amdursky.

True, Tuna, Shalom Hanoch, the Snake Fish and Teapacks also recorded protest songs, but rarely or did not speak their voices.

They enlisted their music to convey the message.

Amdursky is a kind of mirror image of this conduct - he appeared on television and expressed his protest and that of many in Israeli society, but did not open a door to his music. 

His new song, "You and I Travel Slowly" does not deal with the situation or the crisis, does not connect to the spirit of the period and does not contain a sensational or critical statement.

Is a love song.

simple.

Almost prosaic.

Free of big dramas, also in terms of adaptation and production.

If we have become accustomed to receiving from Amdorski layered and rich productions, varied and large, this time he is moving in the other direction.

The song is presented almost naked.

It is abstracted from all that is superfluous, from all that is not absolutely necessary for its existence, from excesses that could have burdened it and prevented it from moving.

This minimalism not only helps to see again how gifted Amdursky is writing songs, but how well this song, subtly and lyrically, does manage to capture the spirit of the period.

In recent months, we too have been forced or chosen to confine ourselves to the only necessary, to the essential, to the things without which it is impossible to sustain life.

In this new reality, what is more essential than love?

What is more necessary than a mental connection that will confirm to us that we are not alone?