Music that raised an entire generation, in my progress towards the hall I saw the swarm of crowds rushing to the bleachers - mostly women, in their early forties, and I saw everyone who is just me - when I first heard Lider in high school, in the 1990s CDs "Caressing and Lying".
It was unlike anything I knew, very sensitive and soft, a text that touched a wound, and over the years something developed in it that was unlike any Israeli artist, a sub-genre of its own: professional, innovative and delicate.
The show was opened by a sonic light show somewhere between a nature party and a star trek, was a bit bizarre to me but it prepared the audience for the fact that we are going to watch a super invested and super tight show - which is perhaps what is best to say about it - Ivri came to work.
He takes the stage from the center of the audience, opens burners with the "Middle East" in the sound of a party of an absolutely international standard that washes over everyone like a tsunami wave of burning in the body.
Ivri started the show by telling us - "the truth is it's not me - it's you" and it's true - because everyone felt we grew up in it, there is something in his music that everyone thinks is alone in this deviation of "Ivri Lider's ardent fan" and yesterday it was clear There is a reward for a battalion of ardent fans like 12-year-old girls in a show by Noa Kirl, whoever is connected to him is deeply connected to him and we were as a hypnotized cult only with the most humble leader who does not know how it all happened to him.
Let's start with the bottom line - Ivri held the audience for two hours that felt like a quarter of an hour.
The whole range of human emotions took place there - he spoke in "we" both about his band and about the audience - we together created this phenomenon, and we all felt partners in his journey and that his music is the journey of each of us individually and together.
He was excited, sharing on the verge of tears, a one-off combination of excitement and intimacy alongside a crazy electronic party.
Ten thousand chairs in Nokia Hall and we all felt it was a private performance, we were one, three times came down from the stage to the audience, touched and made us feel close to both him and each other.
Leader has a rare combination of everything that is true and up-to-date and brings the second gospel before it happens and something super warm, humble, as if he is overwhelmed that we even got here and all this thing is happening around him not because of twenty-five years of hard and accurate work.
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Ivri Lider, Photo: Yosef Yehoshua
Swept the audience, Photo: Yosef Yehoshua
Get drunk and do nonsense but not at a performance by Ivri Lider: everyone was fascinated by him and fascinated, well, also for the chairs: someone has to ask the question of the evening and it is - why - the guards of Menorah Hall did not let the audience get up from the chairs ??
Throughout almost the entire performance the audience was clearly instructed to sit in a chair and we were left nailed to chairs as if it were a show at the Cameri, the most potential show that has become the saddest gathering in Israel, I did not know if I was at the show
The poignant lyrics, that every word and every character is accurate to each other, are lyrics that need to be sung while standing, burning all over the body.
Is "it's so good for us to sing together now" - when we sing it like the anthem of hope in attention?
What saved the evening was that for the past half hour the guards released and let us discharge energy, like a daily round of a prison inmate.
You can see that every character and every comma worked and thought endlessly, but it also seemed that he wanted to load up on innovation at all costs, pushing in a cardboard box of four flavors at least ten.
Unnecessary clips, like a country version for the new people or such live videos from host Shilon.
A cute idea for a Saturday in the garden, but Hebrew - you came to work - will bombard us with a dreamy sound and let us feel at a party raised by the people of Europe that you are the only Israeli who knows how to do it right.
Bottom line, Ivri Lider is a wonder that does not belong to any group, he is a sub-genre of his own, he knows how to combine a heartbreaking ballad like a whale woman and a second brother to pick us up with Mary forever in a crazy sound, with video art and Tomer Meisner who is the example of how a DJ Need to hold 10,000 hypnotized people.
The show ended with a crazy electronic party with a tribute to GOD IS A DJ combined with LOOSING MY RELIGION and it was the closest to happiness the audience at Nokia Hall has had in the last twenty-five years.
Thank you for coming and thank you for working hard, it was worth every penny, I would go to this show every night, just with a break for a drink outside in such talk of life.
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