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Now striped: Ella Lee is swallowed up in the words of Aviv Geffen

The joint song of the veteran musician and coming out of the next star is far from exciting, Shlomi Shabbat and Itai Levy are quietly moving, Raviv Fiddler repeats himself and Nemoka brought the first indie candy of 2022, which will play a lot in your headphones.

Singles Review

Nadav Menuhin

20/01/2022

Thursday, 20 January 2022, 07:20 Updated: 07:30

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Aviv Geffen and Ella Lee, "Brilliant Pink" (PR)

Aviv Geffen and Ella Lee - Shiny Pink

In the second line of "Bright Pink", the joint song of Judge X Factor Aviv Geffen and outgoing star Ella Li Lahav, the singer likens herself to a star shining above the city sky.

A star watching from above in a song by Geffen?

It sounds familiar from somewhere - we've met it before, as I recall, in "Moonlight", "Rotating", and "Seasons", for example.

This is not a particularly important anecdote, but it illustrates how "Glossy Pink" is a very vine-like song, especially in his world of images.

In his gloomy words, he is somewhat reminiscent of Geffen's work with another born star, Ninet Tayeb, somewhere almost two decades ago.

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This is certainly true musically as well. At certain moments in the song it seems as if "glossy pink" is what happens when you put in the blender the late hits of Geffen, increase the tempo and add programmed drums and the voice of a singer. True, he did not just invite a singer: Ella-Li Lahav is one of the most interesting pop stars in Israel. Contrary to what might be expected, the connection between the two makes a lot of sense - it's the engineered result that makes the whole thing artificial. Geffen's attempt to sew around Ella-Lee a rock song is interesting in principle and not self-evident, but does not live up to expectations on both sides, and is difficult to excite, easy and material to excite.

"Shiny Pink" corresponds with Ella-Lee's status as a born star haunted by gossip columns, and probably also with the early years of Geffen's career, about the makeup and provocations and the huge media interest that accompanied him then.

"I'm careful not to be Cinderella at midnight" is a beautiful line in this context.

But if Geffen wrote a story about Ella-Lee here, she herself is engulfed in it.

The singer, who has so far shown a lot of courage, originality and impudence in the best sense of the word and surprised in her choices, is not so successful in expressing in this song her abilities and uniqueness.

It delivers a solid, yet generic and lackluster performance - and that's how the song manages to take off.

The presence of Berry Sakharof, a third rib invited to the star meeting to play the guitars, is not even noticeable.

Shlomi Shabbat and Itai Levy - the wine that remains

There are few artists who like to collaborate like Shlomi Shabbat.

This song is also from a third duet album on the way, and this time it stars a star like Itai Levy, who is at the peak of his career.

Such a connection can, as is well known, amount to Tzelash or Tarsh, if the whole is not larger than the sum of its parts.

But let's put it this way: if a really good duet is supposed to bring out the best on both sides - that's exactly the case we have here.

"The Wine That Remains," which he created with Avi Ohayon, is indeed a simple love song about a meeting between lovers.

It's the shared serving that makes it something particularly charming.

Shabbat and Levi both know how to open their throats, but this time they have chosen a particularly intimate strategy, even in relation to the ballad: the two sing the houses so quietly, and it alone is so powerful and touching.

A melancholy and dominant clarinet (David Davidov) adds a festive touch to the song and conducts the melody slowly, and will probably lead it to many weddings as well.

What an abrasion.

Raviv Fiddler - Deep Water

Here is a summary of previous episodes: Last year's biggest musical star then conquered the charts with very characteristic ballads, which correspond with his personal story as a tormented young man, carrying with him harsh sights from his military service. Fiddler exploded in chants, and it worked: "Shards" became one of the biggest hits last year. Then came "Want Peace" and "We will complete everything", which succeeded in the same method.

Now, half a year after the last song, a violinist returns with "Deep Water," swimming exactly - but exactly - in the same pool.

It's a slow rock ballad written by Klipi and Eran Kashi, with guitars reminiscent of Guy and Yahel's hits (a look at the credits reveals that Yahel Doron does play here).

This is not the only thing that sounds familiar: his words also sound too predictable in the context of a violinist, and the images are also not very original: "Silence screams at the end of the day", "Holds my head above the water", "A flood of memories descends on me, another heavy journey not I managed to leave behind "- this is a story we have already heard.

A talented violinist with proven success, but for the fourth time, it's just plain boring.

Nomka - seems to never

Nomka (Noam Sadan) has been around in the indie scene for about a decade, and with this song - it could very well be that 2022 will be her year.

"It seems to never," produced by Tamir Muscat and Yonatan Koren, is a musical candy that behaves the opposite of what is expected of it: an eighties pop adaptation that seems innocent and sweet implies a song of one kind, but envelops depressing and ironic lines about alienated and confused life without dirt, dirty instruments and urban boredom - with A chorus that kicks in the head with all its might.

This is a true alarm: it's going to play a lot in your headphones.

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