culture
Music
Very attentive
Not just "Johnny Like Me": Not every day you hear a debut album like that of Bar Tsabari
"Rock'n'Roll at Lunch" is a fine showcase of great, self-confident talent, and it's amazing to think this is just the beginning.
And also: Stella Gut's album is one of the sweets of the summer, filled with a world of melancholy, dim and disturbing sounds, and most of all wonderful.
Two new Israeli albums not to be missed
Tags
Sabri Bar
Stella Gutstein
Nadav Menuhin
Monday, 19 July 2021, 09:11 Updated: 09:26
Share on Facebook
Share on WhatsApp
Share on general
Share on general
Share on Twitter
Share on Email
0 comments
Sabri Bar - Rock 'n' Roll at noon
We've been through a year, two closures and one election since then so it's easy to forget, but around this time of year in 2020 we all started humming "suddenly Johnny like me", following the man who was exhausted from his materialistic life and decided to see landscapes and world.
The relatively anonymous name behind this hit was Bar Tsabari, a graduate of "Eyal Golan Calls You" and the musical "It's Me" - not a familiar figure to too many Israelis at the time.
But the connection between the all-Israeli story about the desire to escape from the routine and the effective fusion of the guitars and the ripples into the addictive chorus did their thing.
There was no denying it: Sabri managed to score something bigger here than just another regular pop song.
Now, a year later, his debut album is finally coming out.
"Rock'n'Roll at Lunch" is his name, in arrangements and production co-produced by him and musicians Adi Levy and Ron Bakal, and he keeps his promise in full.
It is a purposeful display of great and special talent.
There's something really exciting about him at Bar Sabri: it's rare to hear a debut album by a musician so confident in himself - and that it has a cover;
That he has a distinct and fascinating personal identity;
And that makes it all sound so easy.
More on Walla!
If this is what Noa Kirl has to offer the world, why should Los Angeles wait for it?
To the full article
You can hear in his album a variety of traces of the great oriental musicians of recent generations, from the celebrations in the Yemenite vineyard through Margol to Kobi Oz, but it does not sound outdated at all. On the contrary, he plays with this tradition, making it sound completely natural in 2021, mixing rock'n'roll at lunch with winks to Shlomo Artzi and Shalom Hanoch, to something new and interesting. In doing so, Tsabari continues a wave of musicians such as Shai Tsabari, Liron Amram, Shai Nahisi and are today at the forefront of new oriental music, challenging the increasingly perforated definitions of styles that were once considered rivals.
But it's not only the cohesive style, but also the lyrics of the songs.
Sabri does not hide behind vague words and depicts concrete figures without a pose - young people, who do not quite find themselves, perhaps from the periphery or with their eyes there ("Missiles like rain in an envelope and bombs in my head", for example. When he sings on a Leah Goldberg bill (theme song) ) Or when he prays (sparks), believe him.The urban love-hate song "Hadera" embodies this character wonderfully, with humor and a fine description of a place that no one will write more words like.
It should be said clearly: this is just the beginning.
"Rock 'n' Roll at Noon" is not a diverse album in terms of its themes or its view of the world, not all songs are uniform in their level and there is no other winning song in Johnny's levels.
But if this is the beginning, a star may have been born here.
And also: Stella Gut - that's how you heal
Stella Gutstein, in short Stella Gut, is perhaps best known for indie mice from bands like Bill and Murray, as a player in Assaf Amdursky's band.
After a decade of making, she presents for the first time an album in Hebrew, which turns out to be one of the sweets of the summer.
More on Walla!
Exclusive: Stella Gutstein makes Roquefort
To the full article
"How to Heal" is an excellent collection of songs, most of them love-longing-disgust songs, some with nineties guitars ("Take It All"), others are synth hymns from the eighties ("Maariv Bridge"), others with electronics from now on ("Wrinkle") , And touching lyrics to the heartbreaking (e.g. the theme song, which tries to hold a family bond in a complex emotional reality).
Gutt, herself a sound designer, engineered a world of melancholy, dim and disturbing sounds, and most of all wonderful, and you want her album in your headphones.
Share on Facebook
Share on WhatsApp
Share on general
Share on general
Share on Twitter
Share on Email
0 comments
