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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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morkwa wrote:
definately a master!
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mk_ultra_ wrote:
великолепно...))
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gPyr_JIoXa wrote:
.... =)
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inno-tenshi wrote:
Saw Yoav at Live Lounge in Ottawa last Thursday. Blew my mind. <3 "Moon Bike" is going to be a huge hit with "Spider Song".
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auksta wrote:
2candles1wish, ruslar iyi müzik gibi :P Angel and the Animal - best song ^___^, but not club thing.. I love it <3
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schism_vdonsk wrote:
new album will be released in 2010 and include 14 songs
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jk_2k wrote:
Yoav - Live @ Tele-Club (Yekaterinburg) [17-10-09] [CamRip] Полная видеозапись!
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Merivell wrote:
как это не банально..влюблена ^^
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волшебно!
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влюбилась с первой песни..
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шикарен.влюблена.
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Yes,sure,ahah i like him)
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http://www.last.fm/group/Yoav Join Yoav's group on Last.fm. :)))
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2candles1wish wrote:
oha ruslar istila etmiş burayı audshasuyhfadfs
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jk_2k wrote:
Video - Live @ Tele-Club (Yekaterinburg) 17.10.09 Готовлю полную версию. Надеюсь к концу недели ;)
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солидарна
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завораживает
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кайф
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черт,это так цепляяяет!
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очень красиво))
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