She played as a side woman for different artists including Sweet Georgia Brown, Roy Young and Daphne Armoni, Shalom Hanoch, the Finns.įor the past few years she has been teaming up with the Monkee Palace Orchestra and they have played gigs mainly in Switzerland. They released a CD and toured in Israel, Switzerland and Germany even playing the renown jazz festival Montreux. Later she moved to Tel Aviv and co-founded the all women band BELLA DONNA. Working as an assistant engineer she was exposed to the music of Run DMC, the Beasty Boys and Red Hot Chilli Pepper live at the studio, those first impressions inspired her to write music and are well present in her style and lyrics. She studied saxophone with Bill Saxton that enlightened her with the basics of a II- V progression and got her hooked on jazz. Between working different jobs as waitress, bartender, sound engineer assistant and studying, she more and more got drawn to jazz and the music world. First art music LP by Tsippi Fleischer, containing her early work. Arik Einstein & Shalom Hanoch, The Three'ngers, Tamouz, ' The Nahal Band Also Known As. shofar blowing and excerpts from music by rock singer Shalom Hanoch The Mother. She then moved to New York to enroll in AMDA, American Musical and Dramatic Academy and got granted a scholarship from the educational department. 1 September 1946, Mishmarot, Haifa, Israel. They performed in cities across Europe including Berlin, Munich, Zurich Berne and Paris, and traveled with their caravans for hundreds of miles to reach new destinations. That’s where she started playing the saxophone, as well as being part of a team of artists that created a smashing entertainment show. At the age of 15 she joined a variety theater group. Her mother is a singer and her father a pianist and composer.įrom a very early age she had been busking, singing and playing the guitar. Because if you listen to the Beatles channel on Sirius XM as much as I do, unlocking your inner Israeli grandparent won’t be so hard.Born in Switzerland originally, she was traveling around the globe with her parents since she was a baby. Regardless of if you understand the lyrics or not, there are plenty of excellent Hebrew classic rock tunes worth listening to. It’s art, you know, I don’t think there’s any wrong way to interpret art.” Why limit yourself? If you don’t know the lyrics, I think you can make your own meanings.
“It just definitely helps you understand other people’s cultures better. In my quest for more Israeli rock, I came across the blog, “The Diversity of Classic Rock,” run by music historian Angie Weisgal who blogs under the name Angie Moon and runs the Instagram account, Weisgal explains that “if it makes me feel like I’m living in a time that I didn’t really live in,” she knows it’s a track worth recommending.įor her and many fans of “foreign” classic rock, the language doesn’t matter. Every time I unearth one of these albums from a bin labeled “Foreign Rock” or “Middle Eastern,” I feel a sense of pride knowing that there were Jewish musicians that pioneered such a unique sound.
I am fortunate to live in the heavily Israeli expat population in the San Fernando Valley, so it is possible for me to accidentally come across such delightful albums as Poogy in a Pita - which has the entire band lounging inside of a pita bread as the album art - or a special Record Store Day reissue of Singles Rarities & Oddities by The Churchills. Like most teenagers playing with this retro tech, I looked to my parents for help, and the Hebrew rock records that immigrated to LA with my parents became the basis for my burgeoning record collection. As a teen, when my hipster wannabe self first became aware of the revival of vinyl records, it was because I had been gifted a trendy black and red Crosley record player. Yeladudes (Kiddos) by Einstein was my favorite CD to listen to at bedtime - it’s like listening to a crazy uncle sing absurdist bedtime stories about the land of the dwarves (“Be’Medinat HaGamadim”) and a guy that goes around bending bananas at night (“Mekofef Habananot”).Īs listening technology evolved past CDs and boomboxes, my favorite music bounced from iPods to iPhones, and I soon left the Hebrew albums of my childhood behind. My parents are Israeli and my first language was Hebrew as a kid, I would fall asleep every night listening to Israeli lullabies by Arik Einstein on my red boombox.
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But if you are a Jewish classic rock fan, or even just have Fleetwood Mac stuck in your head because of the TikTok algorithm, I implore you to give Israeli rock a chance. The era gave us no shortage of American Jewish musicians to fall in love with - from Lou Reed to Bob Dylan to Mama Cass. As this nostalgia for a time that we did not live through continues, it is becoming increasingly clear that this era’s music continues to capture the fascination of generations.
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