The last time Shlomi Shaban released an album was in 2014.
"Exercise in Awakening", the album's theme song, easily became an instant classic and a song for the pantheon.
Shaban, who was then nearing the end of his 30s and relatively newly married to actress Yuval Sharaf, with the help of that song and album further strengthened his status as one of the top songwriters and performers in Israeli music.
All life was no longer before him as it was life itself, at the height of its glory and self-fulfillment, which he experienced then.
Eight years later - and Shlomi, still one of our top creators, releases a new song, "Money Time", and tells himself how much has changed in his life. Two weeks before his 46th birthday, Ben takes his listeners on a journey into the soul of a man who is at a stage that is defined as "age The standing" - about his frustration, his guilt and his regrets.
Yes, even Shlomi Shavni, the successful and successful son, it turns out, is taking stock of the path not chosen.
And he does it with two children on his shoulders, time running out like sand through his fingers and a mother who is increasingly being forgotten.
If it weren't for a fun electronic pop song, it would still be possible to assume that this is a person who is in danger of collapsing.
As expected from a song by one of the best lyricists we know, "Money Time" is full of antics for textual juggling.
"The children grew up slowly," he sings.
"You love them almost as much as you loved free time. As you loved not knowing the nature of the relationship between fatherhood and narcissism."
In another moment he looks his impermanence in the eyes and says: "Your beginnings are still there, but the end is around the corner, and everyone with a mind, everyone with an eye, understood that something has changed."
With words wrapped less piano and more electronics, Ben shoots a nim-dropping of who could have been - from Picasso to Dunedin, and finally settles (if you can call it that) on "Shlomi Shaban, Cockhead Shmookhead is stupid".
It is hoped that the album on the way will also present an interesting snapshot of a successful musician in the crisis of his life, or at least be as captivating lyrically as this song.
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