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Nathan Goshen celebrated with guests and countless hits, but what stole the show was not on stage
The musician, who yesterday celebrated a decade of musical activity at Zappa Live Park on Sunday in a show saturated with guests and songs, provided full consideration to his fans.
Goshen has a voice, has charisma, and he knows how to hold on.
But for those who are not among the burnt crowd, this huge load worked a bit like a boomerang
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Nadav Menuhin
Thursday, 23 September 2021, 10:37 Updated: 10:44
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In a song that broke his way sometime back then, "All I Have," Nathan Goshen mentioned a singer who would soon be gone and would do anything to make us remember that he exists.
That was not his case: ten years later and Nathan Goshen is still here, with an almost endless string of hits.
Last night (Wednesday), as part of the events of the Rishon Lezion Festival, he mentioned this in a long, guest-filled show, entitled "The Decade Show".
Admire him or despise him, ten years is a significant period of time.
Very few survive so long in the center of things.
But if so, it is important to try and understand what path has been taken throughout this decade.
After all, in many ways, Goshen, for his sweet but dramatic love songs, and the soft rock transformed to glory, remains more or less the same artist swimming in the same water as the young man who broke out then with "That's All I Have."
Many of his hits sound almost identical, and except for the same first song - it's hard to say that any of them really became a milestone across audiences and tastes.
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Goshen (Photo: Orit Pnini)
So where does this critical mass actually accumulate?
It can perhaps be said that Goshen's great influence on music in Israel is mainly lateral: as someone who is the middle of the middle, he has become the ultimate representative of several phenomena, chief among them the new wave of sensitive male ballads, into which touches of faith pop have flowed.
If you put all this sequence in a blender, you will get Goshen juice, for better or worse.
And it's a pretty popular juice.
The Zappa Live Park in Rishon Lezion was slowly filled with a fairly young crowd.
Girls and boys who may have been in middle school or elementary school when Goshen's first songs scorched the radio, recognized the songs from the first sounds, and knew every word.
Their enthusiasm held the show no less than the man for whom we have gathered here.
They received full consideration for the ticket, and the considerable enthusiasm in the stands throughout the show only proves it.
No less than 31 songs, almost all of them big hits by Goshen or others, with four guests, over about two and a half hours of music.
For Goshen it was a show of strength aimed at showcasing his extraordinary power throughout this decade: from "I came to dream" to "It's ours", from "Where are you" to "Today will be happy".
The same pool.
Goshen and Dadon (Photo: Orit Pnini)
Goshen has a voice, has charisma, and he knows how to hold on. But for those not included in the burned-out audience, this huge load worked like a boomerang or self-goal: instead of distilling the better songs into a sharp, focused performance, viewers were given an almost tedious mask of very similar songs that highlighted how much Goshen struggles to break through. himself. The division of the show into a first half quiet and almost dormant, and a second half bouncy to the point of being loud - did not help the task of creating a balanced show either. And when things were so monotonous, it was really hard to get carried away or get excited - unless it was the soundtrack of your life, as in the case of the enthusiastic bunch sitting two rows behind me.
And there were guests, too.
The first surprise was the emergence of Liran Danino, who was a member of one of the joint performances of "Still Empty" that Goshen wrote, in what was one of the most successful parts of the show.
Later, Yishai Ribo reached four songs, including the weak duet "We will wait for you", as well as joint versions of the hit "My Heart" (in a strange arrangement with an accordion) and "The Cause of the Causes".
And after a few songs - Amir Dadon also for four songs of his own, including a joint version of "A Different Story", for Goshen's best song, and also "Choose Right", "Every day like a miracle" and "Big Light" by Dadon for whom Ribu once returned Added to the stage for a triangular performance.
Ribo and Dadon are both great superstars and singers, but they also swim in exactly the same pool as Goshen - and although the joint performance was good, it's hard to say that it also diversified the evening.
A beautiful show of strength.
Goshen (Photo: Orit Pnini)
The one who saved the situation was Eden Ben Zaken, who came up right at the end of the evening, when some of the spectators had already made their way in a panic back to the cars to escape the traffic jams.
With her natural grace and humor, Ben Zaken introduced new colors to the event.
The two performed "Happy Life" together, and then Goshen cleared the stage for her to perform a solo of "In the Streets of Tel Aviv", and the evening closed with the huge hits "26" and "Missing".
Goshen and Eden Ben Zaken (Photo: Orit Pnini)
And in the end, while this show did not rise to the heights, it was fascinating to look again at the other side - at this audience, who grew up on Goshen and dedicated to him with all his heart, who sang with all his might.
More than once throughout the evening, it seemed to me that they were the ones who really stole the show.
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