Following up on my travel tips and recipes, here are some of my favorite Israeli movies and Israeli musicians.
Frozen Days- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756359/ This began as a student movie, and became fairly successful.
Ajami- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077262/ Very, very good and realistic (well, it feels realistic to me at least...) movie about an Arab neighborhood in Jaffa, which is part of Tel Aviv, more or less. It was done with no actors, only residents of the neighborhood.
Blues la hofesh hagadol- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092678/ Pretty old movie about a group of friends about to go into the Israeli army.
Footnote- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1445520/ Cool comedy about a father and son, both professors in the same tiny field, and the competition between them. You see a lot of "my" Jerusalem in this one, and in fact I was watching it in the Jerusalem theater, in the same hall in which one of the scenes was shot.
Onwards to the music:
One of my favorite bands, and without a doubt the one I've seen live the most, is Marsh Dondurma. My friend Noa plays the snare drum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MELQssQx06I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNmWkytjdUA&feature=related
The Apples, an acid jazz/scratch & funk band, is one of my favorite live bands. They make me dance like no other band I've seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fyVu02mDtM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwZd2xN1TFQ
Berry Sakharof, one of Israel's most famous singers, does alternative rock sometimes mixed with Oriental/Turkish music, I guess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHliTZH7wpw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0SByEj4-Ss&feature=related
Here he's playing with Infected Mushroom, a famous Israeli trance group:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a51C2njJmYo&feature=related
Yemen Blues, they mix traditional Yemenite music with all kinds of stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ6gYWq3KRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-k37Kbnov0 (This is in a nargila place I've been to many times, in the Old City in Jerusalem).
Bustan Abraham, an Arab & Jewish band that used to play traditional Oriental music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63zqNQsgPns&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c51fKucjohc&feature=related
Dudu Tassa is a fairly good pop/rock singer usually. He is the grandson of Daoud Al-Kuwaiti, who was one of the most famous singers in Baghdad a long time ago (back when the population of Baghdad was 40% Jewish or something ridiculous like that). Dudu took his grandfather's old songs and recordings, rearranged them and made a beautiful album in which he sings along with his grandfather and his grandfather's brother.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-491OlB2lwQ&list=PLD426E8A59A590E68
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KczxBrql34E&list=PLD426E8A59A590E68 - this one is with Berry Sakharof (from above).
Mark Eliyahu, amazing kamanche virtuoso. I can't find a better word to describe his live shows than spell-binding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peGcTg3CE94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgKKgzVhMgY
Habiluim, leftist protest band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtyHxYDpe4I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmBvN0lM43s&feature=related (this one is called Auschwitz Blues)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRpANYphCXg&feature=related (and this one is called Shaul Mofaz, the name of the former Israeli minister of defence. It's about him flying around in a carriage like Santa Claus and giving family members of soldiers that died their body parts as gifts. As an aside, the minister's son was in the same army unit as me, and we always put the song at full volume, hoping he would hear it...)
Kutiman's great "Thru" series, in Jerusalem, Krakow and Tokyo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHglfyQOd2s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta0t6ukfCgw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QekSE3NBf7s
And check out his "album" of Youtube remixes, a fascinating project in my opinion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBfj6khrG4&list=PL2C189BC49E25D16A
Tamuz, classic Israeli rock band from the 70s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X_MAbcGMrk
Boom Pam, mediterranean surfer rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZezwY5IzkKg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA3fV3QRvvU
And one of their role models and inspiration, Greek singer Aris San, who isn't known at all in Greece but quite known in Israel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzBoFYMoR2k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lb7NJ2CI1U
Tiny Fingers, aggressive space rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXokaFve6bw - old one, with video from my favorite festival.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfgLisYBVzQ
Ruth Dolores Weiss, great voice and soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq7gXRTXx3o&list=PL12A660B44541428D&index=9 (covering one of my favorite bands, King Crimson).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIxxHgRLuo8&index=6&list=PL12A660B44541428D
Malox, I only recently found out about them. Crazy Punk-Polka duo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML-dVsT4TUM - the crowd in this video is not that into it, but that's because it's in a shitty city :)
Maybe this one is better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh396TeuIz4 Especially with the serious sounding guy speaking in German before the concert begins...
Meir Ariel, the best Israeli lyricist, in my opinion. The problem is he's got very good lyrics, but is not a very good guitar player or singer. So if you don't understand Hebrew, I don't know if there's any reason to like him. But here it is anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r3yQMcijSU (this is called "Hayat Habarzel", the Iron Beast. It's a criticism of modern culture)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8nIQvwiO7I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgydyk28F04 (This is Shlomi Shaban, a good singer and songwriter in his own right, doing Ariel's "Democracy", a hate song to democracy in which he compares it to a fat and ugly stripper that pees and shits on her audience).
Of course there's many more, but I think this is a good start, no?
Frozen Days- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756359/ This began as a student movie, and became fairly successful.
Ajami- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077262/ Very, very good and realistic (well, it feels realistic to me at least...) movie about an Arab neighborhood in Jaffa, which is part of Tel Aviv, more or less. It was done with no actors, only residents of the neighborhood.
Blues la hofesh hagadol- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092678/ Pretty old movie about a group of friends about to go into the Israeli army.
Footnote- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1445520/ Cool comedy about a father and son, both professors in the same tiny field, and the competition between them. You see a lot of "my" Jerusalem in this one, and in fact I was watching it in the Jerusalem theater, in the same hall in which one of the scenes was shot.
Onwards to the music:
One of my favorite bands, and without a doubt the one I've seen live the most, is Marsh Dondurma. My friend Noa plays the snare drum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MELQssQx06I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNmWkytjdUA&feature=related
The Apples, an acid jazz/scratch & funk band, is one of my favorite live bands. They make me dance like no other band I've seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fyVu02mDtM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwZd2xN1TFQ
Berry Sakharof, one of Israel's most famous singers, does alternative rock sometimes mixed with Oriental/Turkish music, I guess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHliTZH7wpw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0SByEj4-Ss&feature=related
Here he's playing with Infected Mushroom, a famous Israeli trance group:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a51C2njJmYo&feature=related
Yemen Blues, they mix traditional Yemenite music with all kinds of stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ6gYWq3KRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-k37Kbnov0 (This is in a nargila place I've been to many times, in the Old City in Jerusalem).
Bustan Abraham, an Arab & Jewish band that used to play traditional Oriental music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63zqNQsgPns&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c51fKucjohc&feature=related
Dudu Tassa is a fairly good pop/rock singer usually. He is the grandson of Daoud Al-Kuwaiti, who was one of the most famous singers in Baghdad a long time ago (back when the population of Baghdad was 40% Jewish or something ridiculous like that). Dudu took his grandfather's old songs and recordings, rearranged them and made a beautiful album in which he sings along with his grandfather and his grandfather's brother.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-491OlB2lwQ&list=PLD426E8A59A590E68
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KczxBrql34E&list=PLD426E8A59A590E68 - this one is with Berry Sakharof (from above).
Mark Eliyahu, amazing kamanche virtuoso. I can't find a better word to describe his live shows than spell-binding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peGcTg3CE94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgKKgzVhMgY
Habiluim, leftist protest band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtyHxYDpe4I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmBvN0lM43s&feature=related (this one is called Auschwitz Blues)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRpANYphCXg&feature=related (and this one is called Shaul Mofaz, the name of the former Israeli minister of defence. It's about him flying around in a carriage like Santa Claus and giving family members of soldiers that died their body parts as gifts. As an aside, the minister's son was in the same army unit as me, and we always put the song at full volume, hoping he would hear it...)
Kutiman's great "Thru" series, in Jerusalem, Krakow and Tokyo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHglfyQOd2s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta0t6ukfCgw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QekSE3NBf7s
And check out his "album" of Youtube remixes, a fascinating project in my opinion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBfj6khrG4&list=PL2C189BC49E25D16A
Tamuz, classic Israeli rock band from the 70s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X_MAbcGMrk
Boom Pam, mediterranean surfer rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZezwY5IzkKg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA3fV3QRvvU
And one of their role models and inspiration, Greek singer Aris San, who isn't known at all in Greece but quite known in Israel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzBoFYMoR2k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lb7NJ2CI1U
Tiny Fingers, aggressive space rock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXokaFve6bw - old one, with video from my favorite festival.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfgLisYBVzQ
Ruth Dolores Weiss, great voice and soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq7gXRTXx3o&list=PL12A660B44541428D&index=9 (covering one of my favorite bands, King Crimson).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIxxHgRLuo8&index=6&list=PL12A660B44541428D
Malox, I only recently found out about them. Crazy Punk-Polka duo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML-dVsT4TUM - the crowd in this video is not that into it, but that's because it's in a shitty city :)
Maybe this one is better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh396TeuIz4 Especially with the serious sounding guy speaking in German before the concert begins...
Meir Ariel, the best Israeli lyricist, in my opinion. The problem is he's got very good lyrics, but is not a very good guitar player or singer. So if you don't understand Hebrew, I don't know if there's any reason to like him. But here it is anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r3yQMcijSU (this is called "Hayat Habarzel", the Iron Beast. It's a criticism of modern culture)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8nIQvwiO7I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgydyk28F04 (This is Shlomi Shaban, a good singer and songwriter in his own right, doing Ariel's "Democracy", a hate song to democracy in which he compares it to a fat and ugly stripper that pees and shits on her audience).
Of course there's many more, but I think this is a good start, no?
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