Not everything is as important as you think. Aujourd’hui, ils se réunissent dans une maison à la campagne, au sud du Portugal, près du village de Baleizão. Avidan’s Spotify page confirms this narrative. Asaf from 10 years ago was a big jerk who didn’t listen. “I realized that no hug would suffice. I have to say that I’ve been around the rest of the world long enough that it won’t interest people that much. We anesthetize ourselves and this truth because it’s difficult and painful. Having asthma and having survived lymphoma when he was 21, he doesn’t take many chances. I had read the books I wanted to read, and I simply wanted to return. I spoke recently with Liron Meshulam, aka Flora, and Stella Gutstein about women working in production, and they all mentioned you and Assaf Amdursky as artists who do a lot to promote women. In the abandoned Italian home that he renovated, you can cook pasta in one room and record music in another. The video for the title track was directed by none other than Wim Wenders of “Wings of Desire” fame. Record producer Tamir Muskat in October 2016.Credit: Daniel Tchetchik, “All these things affect me. My Israeli-ness is more important now in Israel than it is in other places. Don’t feel bad if you weren’t familiar with the word anagnorisis. This symbolic woman, who appears in the song “Wildfire,” is about destruction and the need to build. He is the 2017 Winter Universiade bronze medalist, the 2011 World Junior bronze medalist, a five-time Nordic champion (2011-2014, 2016), and a four-time Swedish national champion (2012-2014, 2017). When Avidan tried to protect his cat from an attack by the wolf dog, the singer nearly lost his ear. Sortir du placard du 09 juillet 2014 par en replay sur France Inter. I spoke recently with Liron Meshulam, aka Flora, and Stella Gutstein about women working in production, and they all mentioned you and Assaf Amdursky as artists who do a lot to promote women. Découvrez ce diaporama et partagez-le à vos amis. Avidan is tired of answering questions about Israeli-ness, but he’s also proud of his achievements as an Israeli. Avidan’s close friend, best-selling American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, didn’t know it either. In 2012 Avidan launched his solo career, which has boomed. “I don’t want to talk about it; I’ll give you a quick answer. Okay, he said to me, ‘You have a big dick’ – that’s the subtext that everyone wants to hear: You’re enough, you’re great, you’re being seen. I had this word all ready to go,” Avidan says, noting that Bob Dylan released an album this year with a song that quotes Whitman’s line “I contain multitudes.” “Son of a bitch, that’s so much better than my line. “They weren’t chosen because they’re women but because they’re talented. Avidan’s first album with his band the Mojos was a big hit in Israel, selling more than 20,000 copies and going gold. “I had a polyamorous relationship that ended, a lot of good but also a lot that was not good – it completely drained me,” Avidan says. During the break, Avidan wasn’t sure he’d ever go back to playing. “Everything I’d say are things I was told but didn’t listen to. I’ve completed a long-enough path,” he says. Traduction en français des paroles pour One Day / Reckoning Song (Wankelmut Remix) - Radio Edit par Asaf Avidan & The Mojos. “On the album cover there are shapes in bold colors. Well, that’s why he has a Nobel Prize.”. I have an aversion to men.”. It’s hard to feel so much. The way forward was through ‘multitudes,’ the many different characters I hear in myself.”. There was nothing wrong with the songs, but I felt that it didn’t make sense that if I felt so different, my songs would be so similar. Maybe it’s really an aversion to toxic masculinity? But the endless touring exacted a price; Avidan decided to seclude himself for a year in his Italian home. Men become a certain way through culture and education, and I’m not so keen on being around that.”, German film director Wim Wenders at a Q&A at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, December 14, 2019.Credit: Moti Milrod. In the story, Foer explains that anagnorisis is when Oedipus discovers that Jocasta is his mother, when the wolf dog throws off his domestication, when the wolf dog’s owner is revealed to be merely human. The German director and Avidan met after a concert and planned to collaborate on a short film before the coronavirus scuttled that project. One day baby, we'll be old Oh baby, we'll be … Since childhood I haven’t had the mechanism not to look at them.”. He then returns to his earlier statement to add, “True, it’s not optimal. If you have the patience to connect the dots, you might come up with the constellation of a character who’s close to it.”. “All these songs are lies of who I am, but they’re the best lies of who I am. Pages dans la catégorie « Naissance en mars 1980 » Cette catégorie contient 434 pages, dont 200 sont affichées ci-dessous. We’re small in quantity and have been in a lot of danger throughout history, so I understand the need to seek out points of light.”. And I’m fine with that. “They weren’t chosen because they’re women but because they’re talented. “I know that I often hang myself in interviews like this. In Aristotelian terms, Avidan is the Greek chorus, the narrator and the tragic hero. “I had this image in mind of ‘Fire Walk With Me’ [the ‘Twin Peaks’ movie]. Israelian artist Asaf Avidan performing Live. He admits as much in “Asaf and the Wolf,” the novella he wrote at Avidan’s request that comes with the album. The album was produced by Tamir Muskat, who also produced Avidan’s 2012 album “Different Pulses.” That one went gold in Israel and platinum in France. Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. “In Israel, I’m still ‘the artist from Israel’ more than anything else. Is that influenced by the line in the Walt Whitman poem? And I’m fine with that. “When I sent Tamir the songs, I thought he’d hate them and not want to work on them. Risoto de Porcini Muitooooo love #gastronomia #floripa #risoto #cogumelos #grazie (em Santa Catarina Island) Solaris Máximo — Risoto de Porcini Muitooooo love #gastronomia... 1.5M ratings 277k ratings See, that’s what the app is perfect for. But it’s still better than death and nothing.”. The idea is also expressed in the album and cover design by Jonathan Lax, better known as Yonil. Star israélienne à la voix déchirante, Asaf Avidan se produit ce mardi soir au Zénith Sud. “I had a polyamorous relationship that ended, a lot of good but also a lot that was not good – it completely drained me,” Avidan says. Our talks are the interesting thing.”. I was so pleased that within this quiet I discovered that I do want to come back. When I’m not in Israel I read five newspapers a day. “On the album cover there are shapes in bold colors. On the list of most listened-to songs, in first place with 15 million views is the original version of that remix, with “The Labyrinth Song” second. Shop online the latest FW20 collection of designer for Women on SSENSE and find the perfect clothing & accessories for you among a great selection. And then I understood that it’s not that I’m not good enough. Avidan is one of the most successful Israeli musicians in the world, and a unique voice in the music world. The stage is still important to me.”. The video for the title track was directed by none other than Wim Wenders of “Wings of Desire” fame. Avidan is a bit defensive when the conversation turns to Wenders, apparently reluctant to be defined only by his famous friends, it seems. “I know that I often hang myself in interviews like this. It meant giving up my home, roots, sanity, quiet, serenity. As the son of a diplomat, he moved with his two siblings when he was 7 to Jamaica; the family returned when he was 11. German film director Wim Wenders at a Q&A at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, December 14, 2019. Wim Wenders wrote in The Guardian that you’re a true singer-songwriter. That’s the reason I took the break. Such characters recur in our interview, and one particularly fascinates him: the ancient archetype of the destructive and dangerous woman. What does that mean to you? But I’m not in the songs, I’m in the negative space, in the black area between the shapes,” Avidan says. But it’s still better than death and nothing.” “I don’t want to talk about it; I’ll give you a quick answer. Mais celui qui sait trouver un titre des plus concis reconnaît que L’amour est blessé par les mots des chansons qui font mouiller les filles, dans une de ses chansons au titre Don’t feel bad if you weren’t familiar with the word anagnorisis. But I don’t care about coming off looking good. At the end of the clip, Smith meets her real-life romantic and creative partner, Or Schraiber. Avidan’s Spotify page confirms this narrative. I grew up in Israel and in Israeli culture, and I’m glad that Israeli culture is embracing me in return.”, In his effort to maintain his Israeli residency status and divide his time with Italy, the logistical problems are many, but he isn’t ready to leave the old-new country completely behind. That moves me. “I don’t totally stand behind this sentence; I have men friends and a brother I love, but in all my personal history, I’ve never been part of a group of guys. I’ve completed a long-enough path,” he says. I understand that and embrace it; it’s nice to feel that pride. “You know what bugs me? “In Israel, I’m still ‘the artist from Israel’ more than anything else. In interviews over the years, you’ve talked about your search for a home. It becomes heavier and heavier.”, Asaf Avidan is speaking in a Zoom interview from a Berlin hotel about “Rock of Lazarus,” one of the songs on his new album. Wim Wenders wrote in The Guardian that you’re a true singer-songwriter. Asaf Avidan is speaking in a Zoom interview from a Berlin hotel about “Rock of Lazarus,” one of the songs on his new album.