Just huge.
Micah Sheetrit (Photo: Moti Kimchi)
Appropriately but surprisingly, Micah Sheetrit chose to open his celebratory performance at the Culture Hall in Tel Aviv, where he celebrated his 60th birthday, with the forgotten song "Straight to the Heart".
It's not a hit by Natasha's friends, or a track from one of his solo albums, but a song from the third album of the group Metropolis, where Sheetrit was a guest - in short: not one of the cornerstones of his glorious career.
Still, it is not suitable for him to represent someone who, for more than 30 years, makes sure to write in a direct and refined way, without embellishment and without assumptions - "without buffer and fence, without here and there, without fear of death", as the words of the song say - and reaches the hearts of so many Israelis.
It was an opening for a dream performance.
With a magnificent guest gallery, eternal hit after eternal hit, a big and rich band in the back, and so much love on stage and for her.
Sheetrit sings some of the classics he wrote and sometimes also sings in his mother's band, from his solo career - mainly from "Nails and Feathers" which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year;
The wonderful "Santiago de Cuba" was represented by only one song - and several hits he also wrote for others.
Almost all the songs performed have a real status in Israeli culture, and truly, beyond the salute to the man behind them, this performance also had a significant collective dimension, crossing sectors and audiences, East and West, secular and religious, together - in such polarized days.
This long-suffering was also revealed in the arrangements, thanks to two singers, Idit Mintzer Moran Brown, who filled the songs with a multitude of colors, for example in the song "Sometimes" that Sheetrit wrote for the younger Ron Shuval at the beginning of his career, and later recorded himself.
We'll get through the winter and then we'll see.
A sheet with a spring vine (photo: Moti Kimchi)
One sane minute.
Ninet Taib (Photo: Moti Kimchi)
The first of the guests was Aviv Gefen, who stated with a committee how much he envied him who, in his eyes, was "the greatest writer in Israel".
It's hard to argue with this statement: not only thanks to all the parallels and hits and the disgusting combination "Iron Sheep Assets" - and they are indeed such - but because at the deepest level of things, Sheetrit managed to clearly articulate the time throughout many songs ("Avm", " drug addicts", for example) and the place ("Tiberias, "I'm not Omari"), to be spiritual ("one minute sane") and earthly ("nails and feathers"), melancholic and festive - and to convince.
Always convince.
How many people are able to touch the soul of Eric Einstein, Berry Sakharof, Yossi Banai and Amir Banyon, some of the defining singers of this place, in the most natural way possible?
Gefen sang well with Sheetrit "Yesh Zeman" and "Baviv" - one of those perfect songs - in striking performances, faithful to the song, and the chills could not be denied.
After the two also sang "Yoman Masa" together, Sheetrit naturally continued to "Because of you" that he wrote for Eric Einstein, and talked about the dream that came true to create together with him.
Later, Ninet also came up, a little sick and with less energy than usual, but even on a day like this she is still one of the great singers here.
They sang together "Just don't let the wind fall" (hers) and "One minute sane" (Natasha's), and for one minute you could imagine sanity in this crazy place.
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Nails and feathers.
Sheetrit with Yizhar Ashdot (Photo: Moti Kimchi)
It's all dreams.
Sheetrit with Sakharof berries (Photo: Moti Kimchi)
The long performance that included 24 songs heated up in the second half, where the audience was already an active participant in the celebration.
In Amir Benion's moving "Little Joys", the viewers joined in singing.
In "Inti Omari" the docker they already started to get up and dance.
The climax of this part is the double hosting of Yizhar Ashdot and Bari Sakharof, two long-time partners of Sheetrit, who were co-creators of "Nails and Feathers".
This triple union provided a rare, truly moving opportunity to hear "Nails and Feathers" and "Tiberia" with the iconic backing vocals of Sakharof and Ashad.
It sounds like a negligible and marginal part of the songs, but it's not.
When you hear you understand: it's an essential part of the magic.
Sakharof also remained for the performances of "Monsoon" and "Iir Shel Kits", another huge hits that Shatrit wrote, and are still as powerful as ever.
Who else is having fun with them throughout this part is the wonderful guitarist Ron Bunker, in an immersive guitar celebration.
(An unfortunate thought that comes up at this point: excluding "Isher Lelev" that opened the show, "Monsoon" from 2001 is actually the latest original song that was on it. Sheetrit created in the last two decades and did many other beautiful things, which did not make it to this show).
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Glad you called.
Micah Shetrit and Arkady Duchin (Photo: Moti Kimchi)
Only one more thing remains to seal the event: hosting the eternal partner, the friend on the road, who himself turns 60 in a moment - Arkady Dukhin.
There is no writer-composer duo more influential and successful than them in the last generation in Israeli music - in Natasha, in both their solo careers and also in their work for others, they created an incredible synergy.
Duchin spoke on stage about karma and Sheetrit said that they fell for each other out of all the people in the country.
The luck is all ours.
They performed "Two Small Love Stories", "Zuber" from Duchin's second solo album and "Hello Freddie" from "Radio Bella Bella", which also in an improvised arrangement (Ninet was supposed to join them, but had to give it up) broke the heart.
It ended of course with "if alone", but there was nothing lonely in this moment.
The entire culture hall was on its feet and cheered Shetrit for a perfect show and a glorious career - and how much he deserves it and how much we also need these songs, to keep us warm, not to freeze and not to go crazy.
The list of songs:
Straight to the heart, I avoid you, I love you, sometimes, there is time (with Aviv Gefen), in the spring (with Aviv Gefen), travel diary (with Aviv Gefen), because of you, on the starting line, break the TV, just don't The wind will fall (with Ninet Taib), in one sane minute (with Ninet Taib), small joys, I am not Omari, cook at noon, your king (with Yizhar Ashdot), nails and feathers (with Yizhar Ashdot and Beri Sakharof), Tiberias (with Yezhar Ashdot and Beri Sakharof), City of Summer (with Berry Sakharof), Monsoon (with Berry Sakharoff), Two Little Love Stories (with Arkadi Dukhin), Zuber (with Arkadi Dukhin), Hello Freddie (with Arkadi Dukhin), If You're Alone.
Micah Shetrit will perform on February 20 at the Barbie Club in Tel Aviv.
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