A shaky year passed for Maor Edri • He fell ill in Corona, got married and lost his father a few days apart • "Maybe the soul knew" • Listen to "Slip" with justice
Maor Edri finishes putting on tefillin, prepares to go to rehearsals and fails to hide his excitement.
It can be understood in its entirety.
After a year without performances in front of an audience, he and the band that accompanies him could no longer wait for the reunion with the audience and applause.
Indeed, as soon as the stages and events returned to activity, Edri and the staff filled the schedule with all goodness.
When was the last time you showed up?
"The last time was in March of last year, on Purim. A year ago stamp. In between there was a 'Zappa to the House' performance but it's not in front of an audience, so we'll call it a 'performance'. It was mostly for the soul. But today (Tuesday) I "He will perform again at the wedding and tomorrow there will be another wedding, and on Friday afternoon a performance in Eilat and on Sunday another wedding. It came back big time."
Are you not afraid of some rust?
Still, it's a lot of time not to show up.
"Absolutely not. It's not rust, it's gold. The team and I have that spark in my eyes. The musicians are already dying to return to the stage. I always said that the first to get married when allowed and perform at their wedding will get the best performance ever. I said to my band 'Guys, "We go up on stage, take off our clocks, there is no time. Now they come to fly, they come to make merry. Rust is not in our school. We have built a new show."
And this is not the only new thing in his life.
Today (Tuesday) he also launched a new single called "Slip", a duet with the singer Shifita.
It is a hit that seems to be tailored to the return of clubs, clubs, dance floors and parties, which also carries with it a message and a clip in the spirit of the period.
If for years we have been accustomed to songs about men who want to keep celebrating and attracting wild nights out while their spouses nest at home and cultivate frustration, "Slip" presents a different picture.
The song is actually a dialogue between a man who prefers to spend his time within the walls of the house, while his partner wants to act like a Cindy Laufer article and just have fun with her girlfriends.
The idea for the song and the idea for the clip, like almost everything this year, originate of course in the situation.
"My father and mother were there, we ate, we drank and we talked. The next day they called me and told me that Dad had fainted. Later I was shocked to find that he had not really fainted."
"In the Corona year I sat in the studio and wrote a lot. I have material for four years ahead," Ha recounts of the song's roots.
"I was writing material along with a clip of Winon and Yahel and not aiming for a duet with a judge. Suddenly, while singing, I said to them, 'Come on, you know? A judge here will rarely come in a box. I hear her all the time.' They said, 'Wow, where? "Did you bring it? ', They went out and picked up her phone. They made her a small sound, she flew over it and within an hour and a half she came to the studio. It all happened naturally and quickly that there was no time to think about it. Everything settled down."
And you also got a song in the spirit of the period.
It is refreshing to see such a gender reassignment.
"This year I learned something new about myself, and that is that I want to check my musical boundaries and get out of the box, to do things I did not do before. In this song I chose to come upside down. I am the one who sits at home, does dishes, folds laundry and bars and she goes out and spends time with membership".
This is a bit of what happened to you in reality.
From live performances you have become a domestic animal.
"Before I got married, fun with my wife was not in sight. Suddenly it turned upside down. She is the one who goes out to work and you are at home. When you are at home you discover your relationship. Suddenly I found myself an assistant at home, doing things I never thought I would do. "The bed. I do not think it is a bad thing. It could be that the clip was born out of this, out of the subconscious."
"Fatigue continues to accompany you for several more months. The taste and smell are back, but not as they were"
This is probably not the only thing that happened to him, in a year that even without live performances was for him an emotional roller coaster.
Even sensory, given that he himself contracted the virus.
"We were a few people in the studio, a closed place without windows," he says.
"One of us was sick and did not know it. Out of four other people who were there only I got infected. Excerpt. The next day we did the fire with the small family. I stand on the barbecue with smoke on my face and suddenly realize he is not bothering me, I do not choke "I took a piece of meat from the barbecue, I ate and it has no taste. There is no point in pita with the chickpeas either. I read that loss of taste and smell is one of the symptoms of corona, so I put myself in isolation. And after a test my wife and I found out we were positive."
What symptoms of the disease have you experienced?
"I had chronic fatigue for two weeks. I would go out on the porch, go to bed for two hours, get up and then go to bed again for another four hours. You feel tired as if you have not slept 24 hours. The fatigue continues to accompany you for several more months. The taste and smell returned but not as they Say, every type of perfume smells the same to me, like lemons, and I have a strange taste that accompanies me in every dish. We were in a B&B this week, we ate breakfast and a friend asked me if there was a stone on the table or if it was white cheese. I did not know what to answer. "Everything's blurry. It sucks, because I'm a man of food, sick of food. And the tastes are not one hundred percent."
Among all these he also managed to get married.
His and his wife's original 1,500 original guests, Naor Pony, were reduced to 250.
Only close family and good friends.
They did not want to wait any longer, certainly not because of external factors.
In retrospect, this seems to have been a wise decision.
Such that he would be comforted by her for years to come, since only four days after he got married Maor lost his father.
Within a few days he went from a peak moment to a pain that even time would not heal.
Tell us a little about your wedding week.
"We got married on Thursday. Four days later, on Sunday, we made seven first blessings with the small family and sat together until late. My father and mother were there, we ate, drank and talked. The next day they called me and told me Dad had fainted. Later I was shocked to find out he was not really Fainted. Dad had a lot of problems, he had four strokes and heart problems, had bypass surgery and open heart surgery. But my dad was a very strong, independent man. Even when he became paralyzed in half body he always got up on his own, went back and forth. "He was not ill but not at the peak of his health."
Do you think somewhere it was important for you to get married so that he could be present?
"It's not a thought that came up at all. It could be that the soul knew and felt. We, in our minds, did not watch it, it is not something that came up at all. It is not an easy thing to lose a father, no matter what way and at what age. It accompanies you for life. "Leave you, time does not really heal. But we move on with life, because there is nothing to do. It is difficult. We go from joy to extreme sadness."