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"I'm aware of the criticism that I don't do hip-hop, it doesn't interest me": Mookie releases a new album | Israel today

2022-12-06T16:16:04.920Z


The work on the album "Strong with the heart and close with the body" was different from anything he had done so far • With the help of guest artists (Bari Sakharof, Evri Lider, Aden Hasson, Shekel) and various producers, a mix of diverse styles was created, which he says allows "to reach other depths" • On the background of the reunion show with Shabak S, he reveals: "I'm sure we'll record new material together"


On the face of it, the five years that have passed between Mookie's last studio album "Walking on Water" and the new one released today (Tuesday) are puzzling.

The corona period, which kept musicians away from the stages, also created for many artists an opportunity to write new material and release it quickly - a result of a freed up schedule and creative time that was used for the purposes of thinking and formulating a statement.

But Mookie's case is a little different - not only because he invested his time in recent years in the game as well, but mainly because the nature of the work on "Strong with the heart and close with the body" (a title that is heard only by chance - and actually also for Mookie himself - is similar to that of "at an even pace in the movements of the body" by my colleague Ivri Lider, who will come back to us later in this text) was completely different.

12 songs make up the singer's eighth solo album, and the vast majority of them include collaborations with different artists or producers.

"Tie" was produced by Yanon Yahal, while the rapper Amon Shekel was responsible for the production of "New Day".

In "From Your Neck" he entrusted his creation to Stav Begar, and in songs like "Remember Everything" and "From Sadness Like This" he sang with Ivri Lider and Barry Sakharof - respectively (when you were the producer, Johnny Goldstein took over this time).

Many of the songs have a different character from each other, and some are considered almost foreign territory for the musician.

In the song "Like Everyone", which was composed by Eden Hasson, he even turns to uncharacteristic Mediterranean directions for those who are mainly associated with hip-hop and rock.

(Prod. by Johnny Goldstein) Moki and Barry Sakharof - from such sadness

"I really never got to be that long between albums, but in my eyes it was worth it and I like what came out," he says.

"It wasn't a matter of a writing barrier, even though in the first six months of the corona virus I had no desire, desire or energy to sit down in front of a notebook. This is what I've been doing all my life: enter the study and write. Suddenly there were six months when I didn't do it And it disrupted my systems. But this is only one situation out of these five years. In all the previous albums there was always one producer, and when you work with one producer you go into your own bubble, collect the materials and then go into the studio and record. That's what I've always done, with Filoni and Uri Avni, for example.

"This time it was different. On the one hand, it's possible to go into other depths with each track. On the other hand, it takes time, it's not something that happens in two months. This collection was done consciously because I wanted to do something as broad as possible and touch all kinds of colors that I touched before. For each song Here it has its special color and all these are part of me."

Mookie and Ivri Lidar - remember everything

It also sounds like you went in the directions of your guests.

The songs with Lider and Sakharof, for example, sound like their songs.

"I have to say that maybe it sounds like that, but it's really not like that. 'Remember Everything', the song I sing with Hebrew is my song. Me and the producer Noam Akrabi were looking for a twist in the studio, because something didn't work out for us in the transition of chords in the song. , because we both worked with him in the past, and maybe he will help us solve this thing. He came, recorded a vocal take and then I said to him: 'You know what? Do you want it to be a duet?'. So I entered the song when it was already almost finished.

Also the song with Berry - although I imagined it with Berry's guitars and painted it in those colors, but it's a song that I sang at first.

So you're like, 'Oh, that sounds like a spinster song,' but Berry dropped his vocals on it.

Maybe it's the ability I have to give space to whoever I'm with and do something together.

I know how to give people their place and I really enjoy it."

By the way, do something together - in the last few months, those who followed the singer's career from its beginnings in the mid-90s received a heavy dose of nostalgia.

The reunification of Shabak S, the group he broke into, seemed until a few months ago like something that was not going to happen in one way or another. Not least due to the musical direction taken by Mookie, from a reckless teenager who shoots rebellious and critical content a la NWA to a family man who writes Texts that deal with maturity and fatherhood, materials that also brought him quite a bit of criticism from those who remember him in the more rebellious version.

By the way, he is not deaf to criticism.

"I'm aware of this talk of 'Why don't you do hip-hop?'" he says.

"I do what I fucking want to do and what I feel like doing. I am not obligated to anyone but myself, because the day I am obligated to others I will work in something else. I am always true to myself."

Now that you have returned for a moment to perform and sing with the Shin Bet, the contrast must have been felt.

"It depends on which Shin Bet materials we are talking about.

There are materials we did with Shabak and I'm very proud of them, but there are materials we wrote at the age of 15-16 that are true to Laz but I still enjoy singing them. It's not that I'm saying how does it connect with 'father's child'? I live in peace with all the things I've done As a musician. The rather wide range of things I've done in my life are all me, so I'm comfortable with that."

From the Shabak S. Union show. "There is a common desire to create together", photo: Koko

Were there people who argued to you that these are problematic texts that do not fit the spirit of the times?

"Very little and marginal. I do not apologize for anything we did in the Shin Bet in the past.

We didn't do anything bad to anyone, there are texts that sound out of place today, but that's because things are different today socially.

I sing songs that I sang at the age of 16 and I have nothing to explain now.

I have to admit that I have no strength for the righteous and troublemakers.

Let's browse further, Next".

Did the union make you want to record new material together?

"It's something that can happen, that's for sure. It's too early to say when it will happen, but I'm sure it will happen. Shabak is a band of guys.

If the stars line up again, as happened to us with this union, and everyone will have the time and space - both mentally and on the schedule, and everything will come together, then I'm sure something will come out. It's very not easy. They've been my best friends since the age of eight, but all kinds of things We need to connect first. If that will happen? Time will tell. There are new materials for the Shin Bet, after all we have released one song and there are many more sketches that we have started working on and ideas and thoughts.

Above all, there is a common desire and that is what is most important."

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Source: israelhayom

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