Between the devouring of a small bag and the unicorn craze, it's nice to get a surprise out of nowhere in the form of a new IP by Gidi Gov. And maybe the word new doesn't really fit here. Because the three "Look What I Found" songs, as their name implies, were discovered by Gov after a phone call from Yoav Shadma, the recording engineer who worked with him on the album "At the End of the Mountain".
In the phone call, he informed him that he had found recordings of demos in his studio that did not make their way to the final record. Gove and his associates decided to release the treasures they found without any changes, just as they were recorded between 2005 and 2004. In all of them, the singer deals with themes related to growing up, disillusionment and acceptance – a process that Gove and his writers seem to have begun to go through almost two decades ago. And if one is impressed by their words, it can be assumed that they are gaining more validity today.
Gidi Gov, Photo: Ilan Bashor
"That sadness is like nails, it always sticks in you," Gov sings in the (relatively) optimistic and essentially country "Song of Hope," written and composed for him by Hemi Rudner. "Not once or twice did I despair of a path and a galloping path," he continues. "And then in Lima you came home, and instead of conquering the country you took notice."
Where and who else writes such songs? Sobriety rises to a level and a comic quality is added to it in "We Thought" written by Ali Moher and composed by his friend from the beehive, Alon Oleartchik. "We thought we'd be young forever, so we thought. We thought there would be peace coming, so we thought," Gov sings, this time in a jazzy atmosphere somewhat reminiscent of "Dance of the Moon," his 2003 cover album. "We thought what fun, winter rain, but hot and summer," he adds. A line that is more relevant than ever, and also one that corresponds with past songs of the singer, who once sang about rain dripping on the back of his neck.
In "When I Was a Young Man," written and composed by Shlomi Shaban, he looks back - less with rage than with longing. "When I was a young man, I knew better. I didn't know who I was, I was who I would be... I didn't believe I would wander, I thought I would come."
True, this isn't just another of the tragic icons of "Booty Shrab," the light magic of "I'm falling in love again," or the loss of "Clinging to the Air." But when everything around feels like Khamsin, TikTok and chaos, there's something comforting about the familiar voice of one of our favorite artists here. And now he'll record an entire album.
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