Aviv Geffen's performance last night (Monday) at Zappa Herzliya was exciting and full of good energies • The audience, all in masks, missed the status of a live performance
Geffen at Zappa Herzliya, yesterday
Photo:
Coco
"Israel is back to life," shouts a caption on the large video screen at the Zappa Club in Herzliya.
Apparently there is a double meaning here: on the one hand, Israel is beginning to show signs of normal life.
On the other hand, the intention is to return to the live performances, the ones that have been completely absent from our lives in the last damn year.
And no, the zoom did not provide a suitable solution.
When Aviv Geffen takes the stage, the audience cheers.
It's an audience that has missed it, missed performances and missed itself of yesteryear.
"Good evening at last, Zappa" greets Geffen, and finds it difficult to hide the fact that this is a special class for him and all those present in the hall.
"It's a very exciting evening. I got up very early this morning. I said 'today is a regular show in Zappa! No zoom, between people really living'. What is happening here today is a miracle. We are witnessing a big thing and I am very happy. I have been waiting for this for a very long time." .
Then comes a whole host of hits, time and various albums, as you would expect from a coach with a rich repertoire like Geffen.
"A Billion Mistakes", "Mexico", "Angel" that becomes public singing.
A moment after "I miss you here" and "The letter".
The show goes up in gear with "Tomorrow."
True, this is not yet a complete return to normalcy.
The beer is served in bottles only, the masks remain on the face throughout the show.
Even Geffen, once a bad boy, apologizes for the bad cop hat he wears for a moment and reminds them to keep wearing them, lest the culture be closed here again.
The composition that accompanies Aviv is thinner.
It includes Eran Mittelman on keyboards and Omri Agmon on guitar.
Until everything really comes back - you do not need much more than that.
The corona taught us to live with minimalism, and the piano-keyboard-guitar arrangements sound rich and full.
Photo: Gil Kramer and Ami Friedman
The hits keep coming in bundles: "Our Song", "Skin Skins", "" Spinning "," Moonlight "," We Loved "," Thorns "." Seasons "is a moment of euphoria, no less. In between Geffen, an amusing man As usual, disagrees Andkotot little strange period passed. here sound system full of dust, where guitars were abandoned and became home to rats and ants. there was also an evening surreal something, he says, I got a call from the prime minister, then another call from Simon Cowell.
evening progresses towards its end with "song of hope", which sounds comforting than ever. the "diary" dedicates song to medical staff before he left the stage and returned to her performance of "We're both equal." finish, of course, comes in the form of "end of the world", the almost inevitable here.
moment Before thanking the audience, against the background of thunderous applause from those who have long avoided basic human need, he sings another line that was written in 1997, but gained relevance this year. "An epidemic lurks in every corner, waiting for us to sin in contact.
We've already forgotten what love is. "
Yesterday (Monday) at Zappa we received a beautiful, even moving reminder. It's inconceivable how performance class - acoustic, basic and devoid of gimmicks - can remind us what it's like to feel alive. Without the slightest hint of cynicism - we missed it.
