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We were angry with Ehud Banai who stopped going to war. Today we understood why - and were convinced - Walla! culture

2020-02-05T07:28:09.545Z


Ehud Banai's new album is not an exciting album, but full of heart. The tempo is slowing down, and this is also evident in the music. Bringing out a few songs, a builder sings slowly, savoring guitar strumming and chanting him ...


We were angry with Ehud Banai who stopped going to war. Today we understood why - and were convinced

Ehud Banai's new album is not an exciting album, but full of heart. The tempo is slowing down, and this is also evident in the music. With the exception of a few songs, a builder sings slowly, savoring guitar strumming and singing the songs to him as if they were synagogue poems sometimes, and other times like recitations. How well he came home

We were angry with Ehud Banai who stopped going to war. Today we understood why - and were convinced

Lyrics: Miriam Banai, Composer: Ehud Banai

Ehud Banai has his own pace. It's been about a decade since his previous original album, which he himself came after a respectable break of several years. Anyone who used to sing on a running movie today prefers walking. So his lead single is called "I'm Going", this album is already called "Going Up".

Approaching where? whom? Among the albums Banai has repeatedly returned to old sounds, songs from time to time, old folk memories and Ladino stories. And here, too, is a builder, the man of travel and excursion, who is actually returning closest to home, to the private and musical family.

This is not an exciting album, but full of heart. The tempo is slowing down, and this is also evident in the music. With the exception of a few songs, a builder sings slowly, savoring guitar strumming and singing the songs to him as if they were synagogue poems sometimes, and other times like recitations. The album was produced by Gil Smetana, once one of the refugees, but "getting closer" sounds less like "City of Refuge," perhaps a bit like "Melancholy."

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Still, the most beautiful song on the album is dedicated to another member of the same band. "Jean Jacques Mont Emmy," farewell to refugee drummer, clicker and Fortiserhoff Jean-Jacques Goldberg, for his collection of hats and pens, which died of cancer until his death a few years ago. It's a wonderful lament for friendship and decline, and its power lies in the torment of a builder. His sobbing cry before the end of the song, "I'd Like to Stop Time," is impossible to fake.

He is not the only dead person on the album who misses what Builder calls the closing song "The Quiet Neighborhood," where his "brother-in-law heroes dip in the ocean of quiet." Thus, in the song "In a Persian Restaurant," a sequel to "Pear Street 1," the smells of food and the hum of the cooks throw him into his grandparents' house, a kind of "Charlie Chaplin Persian lost in the neighborhoods of the Land of Israel." This song also includes the combination that bears the name of the album. "A day that is neither a day nor a night is approaching," is the dim line.

In the same family context it is also worth mentioning the two singles that determine the family inherent here. The love song "needs forgiveness," from the beautiful constructor of the late author who wrote precisely his daughter Miriam, who emphasizes small intimate moments: eating together, going to the sea, between sanctification and prayer and clogging. The moment a constructor goes out of his way from longing for the old disc, it is particularly touching. The rhythm of the second single, "Dad Give Me A Hand," is truly reminiscent of "Runner Movie," and connects through it to the parenting experience, no less intense than any wanderlust he previously described.

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I have often criticized the builder, both the rhythm and the attitude: Why not one of the greatest musicians in Israel, and the man who shared some of the most kicking protest songs that have been here, not embark on a new war? In this album, Builder replies in the war for family, for sanity, for memories. Maybe better: not war, peace. And to be honest, this time I was convinced: "Getting closer" is an album of peace, definitely.

A builder, the great Israeli draftsman, looks at the Israeli society that is divided, and we clearly do not intend to take part in this turmoil of God. On "Independence Day", he describes a performance as part of the festivities, with a mosaic of settlers and Bedouins, Eritreans and the kibbutz dance troupe, on a night of voices and languages ​​that sometimes coexist. In the humanist song of a builder they do not fight it, but add color. In the song closest to an emphatic political statement in the album, "The Cavalry Song," a builder describes a story about a senseless war and a compromise that prevents feelings of dignity and ego considerations while the losses pile in vain. "The battle was long and bitter, to this day it never ends, no one wins, no one wins, and the operation is still going on and on," he sings in despair of anyone who knows that this fight won't win a single horseman's guitar.

"Going Up" could also be called "Going Out" just as much: He is coming home, but away from the energetics that characterized his music in the past as well as certain deaths, and perhaps those two sides of the same equation anyway: old mason songs popping up again through To the new songs. In one of the songs here, he mentions "I'll Get You," and at his Independence Day performance, he wonders if those who yell at him for "your past" mean a song or something deeper.

But what seems to suggest more than anything about the solution to where a builder is approaching or moving away lies in another song. "Flaming Sword Turn" is one of the album's hiding songs. It's a short, minimalist ballad that doesn't stand out musically and sounds almost like a sketch of a song, perhaps on purpose. "Know that time is turning in a circle, to where we came from - to come back, that's fate." You don't need a hint of that to understand: a wonderful builder's journey must end at home. For those who started as a refugee leader, this is the best ending possible.

Source: walla

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