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Miri concludes with a really impressive conclusion, but she must get out of the comfort zone already

Miri Mesika's new album is a very good one, but if she wants to recreate her explosion when it was discovered 15 years ago, she must really challenge herself.

And also: Abigail Kovari is the best rock singer in Israel - and her new album is no less than excellent

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• Miri Mesika

• Abigail Kobari

• Yankele Rotblit

Nadav Menuhin

Thursday, 11 February 2021, 08:26

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Miri Mesika in the clip for the song "Mark Tzach" (Performer: Miri Mesika, lyrics: Dikla, Mor Shlomovich, Composer: Dikla, musical arrangement and production: Uri Zach, still photography, direction and editing of the clip: Aya Zach, music video: Yonatan (Johnny ) Rays)

1. Miri Mesika - Ocean

If there was no Corona, last April we should have celebrated 15th for Miri Mesika's debut album.

With hits such as "Come to You", "Leshem", "November" and "Nobody" Mesika burst into a storm, and suddenly entered the top floor of the Israeli mainstream.

Singers are coming and going, but Mesika's status has not been undermined, even if for several years now her television persona, as a reality judge and actress, has been more prominent than the musical one.

"God of Little Things", her previous album, was one of the best she's released since that debut album, and "Ocean" also maintains a high standard, with very few fillers.

Although it is scattered among different producers and styles, and in fact includes singles that have been released over the last two and a half years, "Ocean" still sounds like a very cohesive album in terms of identity, and everything in it shouts "Miri Mesika": from minor ballads ("how many") to pop with Oriental touches ("Afraid of you" with Izzy), from the anthems of empowerment ("You have you" with Mika Moshe) to winks to the Israeli tradition ("Hava" and also "Moshe" together with Narkis, perhaps the singer who was most influenced by her), and a lot of combined pathos Theatrically presented - all brand values ​​combined.

And yet there is a novelty here: there are four songs here that concludes an article itself, more than in all the other albums combined.

Along with less pointed lines (there are some), Mesika also has some original flashes (in a twist on the story of the Tree of Knowledge and the expulsion from heaven, she sings to the farm: "Now you know, you caught the pace - you go to the grocery store and give birth sadly").

The choice of materials is also good, and any of the songs here could have been easily integrated into the radio.

In general, everything here is made according to the book, but probably too much: "Ocean" is a fairly predictable album, with very few surprises and releases, and one big drawback - a really big song, which will unite all these songs under a common meaning.

If the previous album had "Zahara", in this album none of the songs stand out above the others.

Mesika has long been established as a great and beloved singer, but to recreate that explosion from about 15 years ago, she needs to step out of the comfort zone, with something that will really challenge her.

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2. Kubari - one of one

I noticed that I was a little hesitant before listening to new material from Abigail Kovari, perhaps the best rock singer in Israel today.

The reason for this is simple: her albums are so good that I'm afraid my expectations will be too high.

But time and time again this fear is dispelled: even "One in One", the band's fourth album (!), Bears its name, is no less than excellent, and even shows progress and refinement.

You can continue with the superlatives, but really everything is true.

Kubari's creative collaboration with producer Ziv Zack, which has lasted since 2013/4, evolved conceptually from a pretty basic rock band with healthy rage and almost punk energies to a much more colorful picture in "One in One", with groovy touches, strings and puffs, and even a bit of aroma From the eighties.

Also as a singer, it seems that Kubari - an excellent performer in advance - has gained more confidence, and feels even more comfortable playing with her voice, between hoarse speech and singing out loud ("Goa", for example).

As in her previous albums, here too Kubari focuses on personal and exposed depictions in the shadow of national symbols ("We all seem to know: this is the last morning of this winter, this time everyone is waiting to sweat even if the battle missiles are above us", in "Frog Muzzle"; Yours is not a choice "in" 94 "), and this time the spirit of the period is more present than ever: in the opening song" Stencil "you can hear shadows of corona closures, as the light rail works and election broadcasts sneak into another song.

In the theme song, which closes the album, it's already the MeToo that's on the table, in more explicit and less explicit revelations, culminating in the stinging line "and still walking around whistling at me, hoping there's a judge around."

And this is not the only stabbing on the album, which is full of great sentences.

3. Taken out of context - sing Rotblit

Yankele Rotblit, the greatest songwriter of Israeli rock, has enjoyed a boom in the last decade, thanks in part to his fruitful consistent collaboration with the "Backyard" group.

Now Rotblit, who will mark his 75th birthday in two days, is receiving an extraordinary gift that fits in well with the corona wave's cover wave: "Out of context", a collection of 23 cover versions of his best hits.

Performers: A host of alternative and punk rock artists, compiled by the "end" station man, Kwame, who himself is not participating in the project.

Among the more familiar names that do participate, can be found the brothers Tsabari, Dan Toren, Elliott, Yuval Mendelssohn, Omer Moskowitz, Renna Ne'eman, Shiloh Farber and Ram Orion and others.

This is, of course, a line of very familiar classics, from "Things I Wanted to Say" to "Mother Earth", from "Contract to You Flee" to "Coming from Love" and so on.

Some of the songs in the collection even have familiar cover versions in their own right (for example, "I'm all right" by Mika Karni, "What's with me" by Roquefort, "Sun Blow" performed by Noam Rotem, "Ballad Between Stars" by Adam and more and more. ", A song that won one of the most successful Israeli covers ever, is conspicuous by its lack), so the joy of discovering remote songs is almost non-existent here.

Indeed, the name of the collection befits him: the songs do go out of context, and take on new and original forms.

Thus, even if most of the performances are lukewarm or strange, it is interesting to imagine them in a completely different attire.

This is how a semi-humorous punk version of "Song of Peace" appears here - a fascinating release from the context of a song that is all abysmal seriousness and immersed in the remnants of pathos from a variety of different places.

Presumably this is not what the poet meant, and the result is funny, but also childish and arouses some discomfort.

So is a slow, depressing, and rough rock version of Tislam's "Morning of Fun," which sounds closer here to "waking up in the morning and hating yourself" than to "Morning of Fun."

This is not necessarily bad, but often strange.

Outstanding versions: "I have a weakness for dancers" by Not on Tor's punk, the fragile "Wooden Horse" performed by Tal Oren, "The End of the Story" by Sheila Farber and Ram Orion, "Instead of a Booklet in Memory" by Dan Toren, "On the Death of the Empire" by Yuval Mendelssohn and Malux, "Get Out of It" by Ranna Ne'eman and Itamar Finzi, and "Then Like Water Streams" by Tamar Afek.

4. Gon Ben Ari and the Other Choir - Ceremony

There are people who can only be envied by their suppliers, and Gon Ben-Ari is one of them.

He is only 36 years old, but behind him are books, comics, commercials, clips, web series and also a career in the press.

A name you've come across, probably, if you've been following cultural sections for the past decade or so.

Now he also has a debut album, more unusual really.

16 tracks of stellar-hipster-acoustic hip-hop on mental struggles, depression, OCD, post-trauma and some cultural criticism.

And if that doesn’t sound far-fetched enough, there’s also a chorus in the back.

As weird as it is - and quite surprisingly, it must be said - a "ritual" is quite enjoyable, and mostly interesting, even though it is too long and monotonous, and easy to lose concentration in.

Ben Ari is not exactly a rapper or a singer, nor are these exactly songs in the conventional sense, but rather confessions-contemplations-monologues on the verge of musical performance.

In a trembling voice, he places the confession at the center of the passages, with the choir doubling it and responding to it, as a collection of inner voices responding to each other.

Together they dance, cry and laugh as therapy.

Accordingly the listening experience is also such that there is something between laughter and comfort.

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