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The files were deleted, Facebook was blocked, the laptop was lost on the train. But in the end an excellent album came out

Israeli musician Noam Ackerman works in Berlin as Noamle and together with her French partner released a new, excellent and surprising album. In an interview, she tells how the series of mishaps on the way to it only helped and why we should be jealous of the Germans during the Corona

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Avner Shavit

When the Israeli musician Noam Ackerman was in the advanced stages of working on a new album - it was simply deleted for her. The French producer she has been working with since moving to Berlin, a programmer called ATN Soul, cleaned up her computer in the middle of the night and inadvertently made an irreversible human error that resulted in the loss of the files. In real time, it probably seemed like a tragedy, but in the end Dare came out sweet.

"Somewhere, this deletion opened up something," Ackerman says in an interview with Walla! culture. "As a producer, she allowed ATN to come fresh and change things he would not dare to change, get rid of inappropriate songs and release a stop. Such things happen for the better. When I moved here I forgot the laptop on the train and lost all the sketches I worked on. It was the best there was. "The next day I did a song that was completely different from the vibe I had before. When you develop, you have to know how to let go."

This release spawned "Amarela", Ackerman and ATN's fresh second album - an album I came across by chance through a shared company story and grabbed me from the first moment. As befits the singer's first name, he is pleasant, but in addition he is also dreamy, true and up-to-date and sounds like something that is happening right now everywhere. If I did not know the origin of the singer, I would not have guessed it, since the sound in it is much more reminiscent of contemporary American or British music.

"I think the music here belongs to a new genre that will probably only be there in the future," she says. "It's electronic jazz with touches of hip-hop and neo-soul. Right now there's no other way to define it other than bending genres, and there's no doubt that the center of his scene right now is mostly in the United States."

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The artist was born and raised in Gedera and began her musical career in Israel, when she was still called Noam Ackerman. "I had a period of network stars, when I was in a very different place from where I am now, and then Facebook closed the page for me," she says. "It made me change and when I got here I felt I needed a different stage name, but not one that is very far from who I am. It started with a nickname on Instagram and then I went for something short and sweet - Nomale. To Israelis it sounds familiar, but to those who don't - it sounds more foreign "Because they do not know the name 'Noam' nor the suffix 'La'. I felt it was my private joke."

Everything is happening today on Instagram and there you also met ATN. "We had a very significant year. We were good friends working together and we had a very intense dynamic that the album actually tells its story," she says. "We were debating whether to become a permanent lineup or leave it as a collaboration and we came to the conclusion that we would leave it that way, and from now on everyone would go on with their things and personal development."

Through Instagram, the two also met other musical partners, including a saxophonist named Alfredo who lives in New York, who plays on the album but she has never met him in person. "We planned to go to it in April, but it didn't come out because of the corona," she says. "Of course I prefer to work with someone when he's with me in the room, but when there is no choice there is no choice, and it also worked at long distance. I love the saxophone. It's a tool that can express such a wide range of intensities and sounds. It's much more versatile than other instruments. throat".

The whole album is great, but my favorite song from it is "When The Light's Off". Can you tell about it?

"This is an example of a song we were stuck with without knowing where to take it, and precisely when we had to record it from the beginning it got the right direction. It talks about an unhealthy relationship. The songs on the album are about my life. They are quite sensitive and revealing and I never know What to say about them, because I feel that everything has already been said about them. "

In it and in other songs there are many such dreamy touches. Where does it come from?

"Yeah, we have such musical outputs. I'm not a great singer myself but I grew up on those great singers, and when it comes to melodies I love those dreamy outputs."

Listen to the album

It's a relatively short album, 36 minutes, but it has 15 tracks.

"A lot of them are on the standard of transitions. It's not that there is single after single. I like long albums. When I sit down to listen to music I definitely sit down to listen from the beginning to the end."

Why is it called "Amarela"?

"It's yellow in Portuguese. Our previous album was called 'Bleue' which is blue in French. It was very blue and wintry and this time the album is more summery so we looked for a suitable color. We checked how to say 'yellow' in different languages ​​and in Portuguese it sounds most beautiful. Maybe the next album is called red and so on. We will complete the base color trilogy, but we really do not take the matter of the name so seriously. "

How is life right now in Berlin in the shadow of the Corona?

"We finished the album before the outbreak of the plague and it's good because I had a hard time working at its peak. Right now Di Chill is here. People have gotten used to the new routine and are returning to work, and people are not hysterical. On the other hand, before Corona it was a non-stop city. Back to herself. "