The Tripoli band's album is so far from the records of Eran Tzur, Shlomi Bracha and Danny Makov

Eran Tzur, Shlomi Bracha and Danny Makov could have just continued to rest on their laurels, but they decided to join forces in favor of a new super-band, and accordingly the expectations from it were sky high.

It is therefore unfortunate to find out how weak their joint album is.

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Nadav Menuhin

22/11/2021

Monday, 22 November 2021, 10:33 Updated: 10:40

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The tone is more childish than amused.

Tripoli Band (Photo: Orit Pnini)

Opens of course: behind Eran Tzur (Tattoo, Carmela Gross Wagner and a glorious solo career), Shlomi Bracha (as a leading member of Mishina and as a soloist) and Danny Makov (among others as a member of Revenge of the Tractor and Dollhouse, and who played on the masterpiece album "Touches") there is an almost unreasonable amount Of classics. These are three elephants who have been partners, each in his own way, in songs that excite anyone who loves Israeli rock and has grown up in Israel in recent decades. In short: these are people who can casually overlook their careers, pat themselves on the back, continue to perform with their hits forever and win accolades from time to time.

But they chose differently.

For those who missed it, the three decided not to freeze on their heels and form a new band, Supergroup (a fairly rare interest in Israel): an alternative and energetic trio rock called Tripoli.

The band, which was launched last summer, also recently released their first album, bearing the band's name.

While this hunger is commendable, but because these three have so many rights, expectations are high accordingly, and so is disappointment.

This is a very weak album, so far from the records of the band members, and sometimes even puzzling.

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The mood of the album is amusing, but seems childish, which is mostly expressed in the lyrics. A representative example is "Sodom and Gomorrah" - a so-called description of nihilism, swallowed up in the silly pun that became the name of the song. "Fifty Sixty", the second single, actually has potential - a cool guitar section, a punkish scent, background sounds that are somewhat reminiscent of those of the mythological "Rooster Battles", but the song simply collapses under a sequence of obscure and meaningless lyrics ("Ismail Haniyeh came to me with Torya "- where the hell is this going?). The most frustrating example is the silly "feminist", seemingly humorous, but actually musty and old-fashioned ("I wanted to kiss behind the wings, but she smeared snow against mosquitoes there"). It's probably the most boomerang song of the decade.

Among these there are too few songs that are fun to return to.

The trio works - the rock is happy, the guitar dances between the bass and the drums - but there are almost no sparks.

The highlight of the album is "Snake", a capsule from the mid-nineties, long relative to other songs on the album (05:33).

It's a dark and a little less comical legend, somewhat reminiscent of witches, but it has everything we hoped would be here: a fusion of talent and accumulated experience, crystallizing into a musical punch in the stomach.

How unfortunate that there is no more than that here.

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Why not - "?"

This is not the only project that has been formed by Israeli rock recently. Earlier this month, Lahmala's album was launched - led by Adam Ben Amitai ("You Do Not Know", "12 Reasons"), which brought together experienced musicians such as Hadar Green (bass), Matan Efrat (drums) and drummers Idit Minzer, Shachar Ziv and Tal Ben Rei . The band's album, launched that week like Tripoli's, is called "?".

Lahmala's album is the musical version of Blanket and Chocolate on a Rainy Day. This is a soft and pleasant album, somewhat sweet, even if it does not shake in any way.

After a relatively lukewarm opening, from the middle of the album things start to get interesting, starting with the cute duet with Aya Zehavi Feiglin, "I want to be with you";

The adolescence ballad "There is a thousand like you" (lyrics: Aya Korem; piano: Shlomi Shaban);

And especially "On" - which is simply one of the best rock songs of the year, with great and addictive momentum and exciting guitars.

It was the first single from the project, which greatly raised expectations from him, and one can only regret that the rest of the songs here do not go his way and are much softer in character.

At the end comes the touching "People Need People", and it seems to sum up well the spirit of the album and the partnership behind it, and on top of that it is also contagious.

Save yourself for the next storm.

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