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The mournful singers, the chaotic comeback and Neta's office: 8 albums to go through the closure with
Shai Nahaysi breaks forward, Aviv Bachar returns and this time as lead singer, Vardi and Roni Bar Hadas come up with perfect albums for winter that refuse to come, the Eurovision winner is looking for herself, Miki Gavrielov is more relaxed than ever and somehow Tova Gartner is the one who takes everyone on a walk.
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Shai Nahisi
Mickey Gavrielov
Neta Barzilai
Order of the hour
Aviv Bachar
Nadav Menuhin
Sunday, 10 January 2021, 08:58
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Modern Spirituality: Shai Nahisi - Between Plots
Nahisi is a name that has been around for a long time - a singer-songwriter who defines himself as a combination of Boaz Sharabi and Michael Kiwanuka - which is already original.
More importantly, Nahisi is also part of a wave of musicians who refuse to enter the usual drawers of Israeli music: there are pop ballads, oriental touches and a bit shanty, spiced with social awareness and a stable worldview, or in short: something that can speak to almost anyone, mainstream and indie .
The production is signed here by names such as Adi Rotem, Einav Jackson Cohen and Nahisi himself.
This is not a premiere, but still the beginning: this album is not yet fully mature - it seems that Nahisi is still looking for himself among the many identities he wears, and something in the arrangements here is a little too polite and peaceful for a young artist who wants to conquer the world.
Either way, whoever opens his heart to it will discover an original, sensitive musician with a great, high-pitched voice that is a bit reminiscent of Meir and Noam Banai.
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Worth to hear: "Tunis"
In the same sector: Aviv Bachar - debut album
After two successful albums with his traveling companion, Hadas Kleinman ("Sailing Boat", "In the Days That Will Pass on Us"), the prominent musician of the Israeli musician of the last decade is trying this time alone.
The change is not dramatic: this album is very reminiscent of its two predecessors, to be honest, and still very beautiful - with a host of melancholy ballads, wrapped in rich arrangements of strings and wind instruments, and even correspondence with Leah Goldberg's "Songs of a Loved Land".
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Worth to hear: "Move"
Indie Caresses: Kama Vardi - Moonticket
Vardi's name has also been on the sidelines for several good years as a big promise.
This is actually her third album - a fine folk gem, all in English, and full of songs that you can cuddle with when winter finally arrives.
Vardi half sings and half recites, and the combination of the two captures the heart.
Although the original songs are great one by one, a cover version of Nico's well-known song, "These Days", distills the essence of the album - if only because this song as written about 2020, the age of closures, social distance and the death of programs and meetings, and all that remains is to remember In what was once, and vanished.
True, this song has sand-like cover versions.
Vardi's performance is very much justified within the song sequence of "MoonTicket", and very successful regardless of it.
Worth to hear: "These Days"
Also in the same category: Roni Bar Hadas - Calm the Beast
Those who are looking for something more from the same areas but a little more polished, will be able to find what they are looking for in Roni Bar Hadas' album, which she co-produced with Tzach Drori (Eviatar Banai).
Bar Hadas' pleasant voice - she also writes and sings in English - is wrapped in slow jazz arrangements, the kind that flourished especially in the indie of the first decade of the century.
Highly recommended - also for the cold season.
Worth to hear: "Wasting My Breath"
Extreme Covers: Neta Barzilai - The Best Of Netta's Office
Towards the end of 2020, Barzilai, one of the biggest puzzles of local pop, released a mini-album of six intense covers that she recorded and shared throughout the year.
The main mass is of huge trash hits from the nineties: songs like "Blue" by Eiffel 65, "Barbie Girl" by Aqua, and even "Coco Jumbo", and next to them a somewhat hyper-version - in the procedure - for "SuperCaliferJalisticExpialidos" from "The Sound of Music" ".
Barzilai has been looking for herself since winning the Eurovision Song Contest, trying to overcome "Toy" and create a more or less stable pop career for herself.
In this respect, one can read "The Best from Neta's Office" as a kind of self-digging, an attempt to rediscover what she loves and what interests her.
There is no doubt that in her home turf she introduced herself to each of the songs she renews, and borrowed songs that are almost always fun to hear - but also not hidden here far beyond the pan.
Where is she going from here?
"The best from Neta's office" provides very few answers.
One that can be deduced is related to the last song on the album - and the best of it - a cover for "The Times They Are a-Changin '" by Bob Dylan.
This version takes Barzilai to a much more introverted and much more beautiful place - proof of versatility, and perhaps also a hint of the benefits that slightly less shiny and slightly more serious materials have.
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Worth to hear: "The Times They Are a-Changin '"
In the same sector: the order of the hour - a third order
The third release in the series is without a doubt also the strangest, and it's hard to say that it's exciting - but even there you can find some beautiful exits like the delicate version of Moshe Peretz for "I'm Guitar", the bizarre but fun cover of Arkady Duchin and Nofar Salman for The charming connection between Noam Banai and Leah Shabbat to Erez Lev Ari's "What will I do", and the rare opportunity to hear Esther Ofarim and Yoni Rechter again with "A Second Bird", as a final tribute to Natan Zach.
From her sons Barbie and Daniel Zamir ("Confession"), Eran Tzur and Efrat Ben Tzur ("The Next Day"), and Tamir Bar ("Voice of a Wheel") we expected more.
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Worth to hear: "What will I do"
Veterans coming back: Tova Gartner - reality peddler
The surprising album of recent times is hiding in the corner.
Gartner (the hit hit "Yesterday"), as someone who has been following her rules for over 30 years, has released here a particularly gloomy and theatrical collection of songs, which has sighs and shouts and casual talk, and great chaos.
You can really hear how this crazy year has been translated into this album, to the lyrics ("It's not an easy time now", for example, but also in almost every other song) and of course to the music (the theme song, for example).
It ends with a connection between "What Has Changed" and the Book of Lamentations, which concludes with a whole range of emotions in this short and fascinating album.
Worth to hear: "Okay" (and there is also a beautiful clip created by Gil Alkabetz)
In the same sector: Mickey Gavrielov - Such are the times of 2020
If there is one thing that stands out in the new album of one of the giants of Israeli rock, it is clear that those who do the craft enjoyed it very much.
Gavrielov sounds relaxed and leads with his guitar all the happening, picking up new songs, mostly slow ballads in the spirit of "Daddy Story" and "It Was a Winter Story", and hosting old and new friends, like Corinne Elal (the contagious "Stephanie") and Esther Rada (" If there is no "pleasant love").
Alongside these, the best song on the album is actually the more aggressive one - "The Poverty Line in the Twenty-first Century", which one does not have to guess what it is talking about.
When Gavrielov allows himself to shout in a chorus, something a little different, a little dirtier, and very loud comes out of it.
Interestingly, Gavrielov has once sung a song called "The Poverty Line" written for him by Yankele Rotblit - how there is no connection between the two.
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Worth to hear: "The poverty line in the twenty-first century"
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