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Imagine a record that matches the leftfield edge of Beck or Radiohead with the kind of sure-footed pop hooks Justin Timberlake’s people would write a blank cheque for. A record which vividly conjures the life of an insightful outsider, set to the dark, loping rhythms of Massive Attack or Portishead. A record built around a voice that’s as sweetly expressive as it is richly soulful. Then imagine that every single sound of it, including the bass & the drums, is performed by one man on his amazingly versatile guitar. That record is Charmed & Strange.
The road towards this striking album began in Cape Town in the late 1980s, when a nine-year-old boy began sneaking to his neighbour’s house to listen to Wham! and OMD. At Yoav’s house, such “light music” was banned, on the insistence of his father, a Jewish architect who lived through World War II in his native Romania, before moving to Israel (where Yoav was born) and then relocating to South Africa with Yoav’s opera singer mother. Only classical and opera would waft through their home.
That only made the pull of modern music stronger for little Yoav. “From the moment I started listening to those cheesy songs at my neighbour’s house, I knew I’d be a musician. I can’t describe the rush it gave me. The fact that music was an illicit pleasure actually made it the most exciting thing in the world for me.”
By the time he was 12, Yoav was waiting until his parents had gone to bed before quietly practicing on the battered guitar his elder brother had given him. “I’d had to play instruments that I hated since I was four, things like the piano and the cello,” he says. “I guess the guitar was my way of rebelling.”
The road towards this striking album began in Cape Town in the late 1980s, when a nine-year-old boy began sneaking to his neighbour’s house to listen to Wham! and OMD. At Yoav’s house, such “light music” was banned, on the insistence of his father, a Jewish architect who lived through World War II in his native Romania, before moving to Israel (where Yoav was born) and then relocating to South Africa with Yoav’s opera singer mother. Only classical and opera would waft through their home.
That only made the pull of modern music stronger for little Yoav. “From the moment I started listening to those cheesy songs at my neighbour’s house, I knew I’d be a musician. I can’t describe the rush it gave me. The fact that music was an illicit pleasure actually made it the most exciting thing in the world for me.”
By the time he was 12, Yoav was waiting until his parents had gone to bed before quietly practicing on the battered guitar his elder brother had given him. “I’d had to play instruments that I hated since I was four, things like the piano and the cello,” he says. “I guess the guitar was my way of rebelling.”
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Alifons wrote:
ток ему был пох уй на эфир,бомбил по гитаре и кайфовал хД
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redoxis wrote:
да, зачетный мэн
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artur_peem wrote:
Да, A-one постарался, пригласив в звездо-чат :)
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Alifons wrote:
а что конкретно музыки,то это и вправду до того завараживающе....просто в нирвану уходишь!вообщем вдвух словах не описать...There Is Nobody поистене прекрасная песня!)
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Alifons wrote:
a-one открыл нам его))
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JohnWeselOFF wrote:
Суперская музыка)))
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artur_peem wrote:
гениально
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Philcher wrote:
Сегодня открыл для себя этого исполнителя. Очень круто.
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Adriannaa wrote:
I love this guy !
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stormy_clouds wrote:
ничего себе, как стремительно набирает популярность. о.о
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tanga22 wrote:
Совершенно великолепна эта музыка! Все идеально))) я в полном восторге, слушаю и не могу нажать стоп)) ооооооо
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Galore3411 wrote:
Интеллектуальная музыка.
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skinny_kitty wrote:
adore adore his music да, он клёвый.
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Absentovaya_fey wrote:
Дааа, любят... он клевый.... :)
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JokerMD wrote:
Видимо любят его в России)
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SickOfFeeling wrote:
Such a beautiful relaxing music :)
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tolmakoff wrote:
my best discovery of 2009!
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Endorphin_rush wrote:
очень крутой))
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Kostava18 wrote:
Маэстро Yoav!
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impresainasion wrote:
YOAV обладатель самого завораживающего голоса в мире,а его музыка....это просто невозможно передать словами!
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