Recommend me some Israeli music/music in hebrew

Other than that, I don't really know. Most klezmer or post-klezmer, if it has vocals, would be in Yiddish.

(note: I am assuming that the bands in the film are singing in Hebrew (or perhaps Arabic), although I'm not 100% certain of this)

run quick to the little mp3blog thingy i set up. just a few days ago, i put up a track by a band called kavaret that put out a pretty album in the early 70's. it's all in hebrew. i'll see if i can't rip the whole thing from vinyl and make a ysi of it sometime this week (if you're interested, that is.)

http://www.livejournal.com/~instantmovement

Sheshet, K'tzat Acheret, Zingale - classic Israeli prog/pop.

Lord Flimnap, Hot Fur, Ashqelon Quilt - newer bands in this vein. and, unlike the fine RockFour and the magnificent Churchills, they usually sing in Hebrew.

-- echoinggrove (echoinggrov...), May 8th, 2005.

I just came across this:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=572533&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0

the last three RockFour albums have been sung in (flawless, virtually accent-less) English, but the band's earlier albums do feature songs in Hebrew. in a similar retro-psych style, maybe a little less of the penchant for stadium-sized riffs and choruses. i think they're a pretty sweet band in either phase. comparable to Soundtrack of Our Lives, but with better songs.

forgot about Danny Ben Israel. his Bullshit 3 1/4 is sorta overhyped, like a lot of "exotic" vintage psych, but still worthwhile. the disparity betwen the conservatism of Hebrew (a language without profanity) and the freakout/fuck the system attitude of the '60s makes for an interesting listen.

i mentioned K'tzat Acheret (who also went as "The No-Names"), effectively a supergroup of Shlomo Gronich, Shem Tov Levy, and Shlomo Ydov. but Gronich is also responsible for three of the most bizarre items in the Israeli rock canon: the solo Why Didn't You Tell Me? and Cotton Candy and, with Matti Caspi, Behind the Sounds. pop with operatic and symphonic detours; WDYTM is as close as Israeli music gets to RIO, and it's damn good.

did Minimal Compact ever sing in Hebrew? Malka Spigel's first solo album, Rosh Ballata, had songs in both Hebrew and English. another great one, esp. if you like the lush sound of Crammed-era MC and Colin Newman's post-Wire solo outings. through Swim~, Malka and Colin's also gave some exposure to Plastic Venus, a noisy Israeli dreampop group - sound something like Loop meets the Mary Chain; but i think the vocals buried under all the fuzz are usually in English.

http://bet.iba.org.il/

Picked up Gelbart - My Favorite Vacation today in a good Tel Aviv record store. Not in Hebrew, but good Israeli electronic music somewhat in the IDM vein, although not as humorless as most IDM.

try to get Plastic Venus - s.t. - one of the best israeli reords ever.

i see a few Poozy records around in shops and am almost always tempted to buy them, but never sound good enough to spend money on them

This is the best Israeli record ever recorded imo. you can check it out here:
http://tastes-like-rocknroll.blogspot.com/2008/11/plastic-venus-plastic-venus-1994.html

sort of like Live Skull, but darker and heavier.
a master piece.

Does Hurting like klezmer?

another great band:Zikney Zefat: Butthole Surfers meets Jesus Lizard or something
here's a video clip:

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/-1993/30280421

another Zikney Zefat:

Rir:

all songs 1990-1993

Does Hurting like klezmer?

― ian, Sunday, 22 March 2009 18:16 (1 hour ago)

Not so much. But I tend to like out-of-tune shtetly sounding klezmir much more than avant/nuklezmir

HaNeshamot HaTehorot (The Pure Souls) - s/t (1974). radio-ready pop, with strong Spanish and Laurel Canyon Sound influences, like an Israeli Fleetwood Mac. great M/F harmonies. love this album. try "Lo Holech Im Kol HaLev" or "Shelo Yigamer Li HaLaila."

Kruzenshtern & Parohod make pretty crazy, punky, RIO-y neo-klezmer that still sounds shtetly.

Does the world really need two simultaneous Israeli music threads??

Anyway, Aviv Geffen's Cloudy Now is classic. And I'm really loving Emily Karpel's Nemashim album from last year. Very poppy.

it's nice that there's even one! ken yirbu! (:

Algiers:

A classic from the 80's:

Saw Shablool - pretty terrible film imo but the music is good. Hippieism doesn't make much sense to me in Israel in the post-67-war, pre-Yom Kippur War years but maybe I'm missing something.

Huh? Hippie-ism makes perfect sense in that time period, where the Yom Kippur War = Altamont x 100000000000

I haven't seen the film "Shablool", but the music is awesome (nice thread revive -- I listened to it over the weekend!)

if you are in the mood for folk songs, martha schlamme is awesome.

search: raisins and almonds

Hippie-ism makes perfect sense in that time period, where the Yom Kippur War = Altamont x 100000000000

Maybe what I mean is that '67 for Israel is the antithesis of what Vietnam was for the States -- quick, euphoric, leading to an invincible feeling, etc. And also the country was still very new and hadn't really progressed to the point of a mass feeling of rebellion against the old conformist culture - the film kind of tries to set up the religious authority as the thing to rebel against, but Israel had such a strong secular socialist tendency from the beginning that this feels a little forced to me.

This thread (or at least the Israeli-related portion of it) is the equivalent of casually discussing the enjoyment of white South African music would have been back in the late 80s. Personally, I would be ashamed, especially if I were part of the group in whose name Israel was created.

SB'd

This thread (or at least the Israeli-related portion of it) is the equivalent of casually discussing the enjoyment of white South African music would have been back in the late 80s.

fixed that for you

holy crap, dude!

xp to Rudipherous

awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk7V3gZGl2w&feature=related

Someone asked for some artist recommendations for an Israeli music for mixtape for mideasttunes.com, so here's what I came up with (with recommended songs);

Infected Mushroom - Bombat
Orphaned Land - Birth of the Three
Amaseffer - Slaves for Life
Distorted - Voices from Within
Melechesh - A Summoning of Ifrit and Genii
Useless ID - State of Fear
Aviv Geffen - It's Cloudy
Kaveret - Yo Ya
Dana International - Diva
Danny Ben-Israel - The Hippies of Today are the Assholes of Tomorrow
Ofra Haza - Chai
Adi Ran - Ata Kadosh
Hadag Nahash - Sticker Song
Subliminal - Tikva

Thought someone here might dig the list. If I can actually mixtape it at some point, I'll put it together. For the time being tho, here's the Adi Ran song (epic Chassidic Breslov folk-rock):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYIXkdKjE7M

lebanon, zaka, midnight peacocks,monotonix,karusela,tv budhas,the astroglides,inga dingo,danny hadar,algire,barbara
all good to great israely indie acts.

was tinot the ak duck stuff a few years ago, nico-teen who put out something recently is a bit proto-chillwave (was copping moves from ariel pink back in the pre-hro era), gelbart and i wanna say mule-driver. all electronicky indie, all pretty good iirc.

Ushpizin is a really good film, btw.

Agreed!

I realize psytrance is probably more indicative of what people in Israel listen to, but if you're going for a dance music angle there's a lot that's, well, better than Infected Mushroom. Though a lot of it I don't think is particularly good, but not at all bad, the stuff that the Be As One guys, or Guy Gerber are doing is a lot more interesting, and is probably more palatable than psytrance anyhow... Also from what I know, Badawi is supposed to be interesting, but I haven't heard all that much (but what I have has been quite good].

Hamas security forces break up Gaza Strip`s first major hip-hop concert
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1165205.html

Just from a couple days ago. I wonder whether they have any music available anyway. I covered a Gaza group a couple years ago, but their stuff only got a broader audience because they collaborated with an Israeli band on some tracks.

Apparently Time wrote about them late last year:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1931360,00.html

anyway=anywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yCShCpJGbM

http://bandcamp.com/files/28/29/2829881540-1.jpg

One of the most gorgeous albums of the year.

http://ronialter.bandcamp.com/

הבילויים (Ha'Biluim) are pretty great:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/lZdTwvsQKfs

Friend's bad:

http://hashlishi.bandcamp.com/

*band*

i kinda love this Hatikvah 6 album - Kol Israel. on spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/0VLoKihOLBBFxkQJ9W8Whc

Well, okay. I didn't think I'd ever post to this thread again, but this is quite interesting, so resisting the temptation to editorialize. . .

http://972mag.com/revivos-project-brings-mizrahi-pop-back-to-its-arab-roots/67422/

(I do like this music quite a bit.)

http://www.timesofisrael.com/how-an-unwieldy-romantic-poem-and-a-romanian-folk-song-combined-to-produce-hatikva/

really dig this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_311596&feature=iv&src_vid=5mxh9Ai4-mM&v=dyz5iC3-mgU

but it's instrumental. Haven't found much hebrew-language music that really holds up for me. I guess you can only expect so much good music out of such a small country.

also he's berlin-based now and has been for some time

bizarrely large number of good israeli jazz musicians though

https://soundcloud.com/hayelala

http://972mag.com/hasidic-music-pushing-the-boundaries-of-the-israeli-comfort-zone/73628/

This is an amazing kids album, just a great album in general really

http://www.judaicawebstore.com/-the-sixteenth-lamb-ha-keves-ha-shisha-asar-1978-P4934.aspx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu2uORJVJFQ

that's beautiful- thx for the recommendation

The first Fool's Gold record is sung in Hebrew. http://www.discogs.com/Fools-Gold-Fools-Gold/master/261598

Arik Einstein RIP - probably THE greatest Israeli singer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CWCIOMp0pQ

http://foreinlegion.bandcamp.com/album/-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MNv3TI265o&feature=youtu.be

http://sputnikhifi.bandcamp.com/album/alex-fishman

l'cHAIM

this is gorgeous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl1epz3tSSA

http://thepromisedland1.bandcamp.com/album/sagol-59-ami-yares-the-promised-land

https://mujahideen.bandcamp.com

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a2362018158_10.jpg

https://tamareisenman.bandcamp.com/album/-

Lola Marsh is an Tel Aviv band playing Americana/alt-country in English. Sirens, Waitress (live), Stranger To My Past (live), Wishing girl, You're Mine, Joga (Bjork cover) Debut album this year.

v cool Numero compilation from Dimona i have never heard before (discovered it today watching a short doc about Dimona hip-hop artist Ben Blackwell whose father was in Soul Messengers):

https://whatimg.com/i/rWcrto.jpg

Between 1975 and 1981, a group of American ex-pats brought the native sounds of their Detroit and Chicago homes across the Atlantic, combined them with the messages of the Black Hebrew culture, and declared Dimona, Israel, the center of the spiritual universe. What their caravan caught on tape was a deeply joyful, sometimes searing mix of jazz, spiritual soul, inspired funk, and Old Testament gospel psychedelia. Featuring the Soul Messengers, the Spirit Of Israel, Sons Of The Kingdom, and Hebrew Jackson 5 clones the Tonistics, Soul Messages From Dimona is yet another stop on our tour of the soul diaspora and the only living document of a thriving community as it teetered at both the center and edge of the world. The Exodus goes on, and from the South Side of Chicago to the bush in Liberia, from the tangled streets of Tel Aviv to the desert of Dimona, their message continues: salvation, peace, deliverance, love…and 100% parve soul.

yeah that's a cool record

Lola Marsh is an Tel Aviv band playing Americana/alt-country in English. Sirens, Waitress (live), Stranger To My Past (live), Wishing girl, You're Mine, Joga (Bjork cover) Debut album this year.

― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Monday, July 27, 2015 10:53 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is kind of ridiculous

Especially her bizarre put-on country girl accent on some tracks

this is a cool little feature on some of Fortuna records favorite rare Israeli records

hurting, idk if u still are checking out this thread for recommendations but WFMU did a great show recently w/ a ton of fantastic Israeli music i hadn't heard before:
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/62812

whoa, thx, definitely will listen

not israeli but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYcnhrADSXA

super cool Gramophone recording of hatikvah in tunis in 1932:
http://jewishmorocco.blogspot.com/2015/12/hatikvah-in-tunis-rare-1930s-recording.html