It was a stormy, windy evening at Tel Aviv Port, however the within Hangar 11 was splendidly heat. White plastic candles have been positioned in all places, primarily across the stage, giving them a mysterious and particular magnificence.
At 9:30pm, Asahu Abhidan, one in every of Israel’s greatest singer/songwriters, took to the stage carrying his typical good-looking, gray go well with. Three stations have been accessible for him. A chair in entrance of a close-by stage, a piano, a guitar arrange, a chair behind the stage subsequent to a small desk the place Asaf poured and blended drinks for himself.
He started with the piano and carried out his well-known track, “Rock of Brazaro.” Moving on to guitar and harmonica, he shared that it had been some time since he had performed this fashion, and that he had forgotten how tough and overwhelming it was, particularly in Israel.
However, no problem was proven as he continued spectacular variations of different well-known songs from his work, comparable to “Over You Blues” and “A Man of a Name.”
“Is this an escapism?” he requested the viewers rhetorically earlier than repliing “No.” The connection between performers and audiences was visceral all through the two-hour present. Asaf Avidan (credit score: Mojoz)
When Avidan started the opening chord to “Bang Bang,” and the viewers started to applaud, he stopped and mentioned, “How have you learnt which track that is? It may very well be each track on this planet.” , he sang the start of “The Wheel of Life” from the lion King, and everybody laughed.
Towards the top, Abydan sings the enduring “Recon Song” on his guitar, sliding his fingers over the strings of his guitar, singing to the resonance field, magically reverberating, amazingly reverberating, and orchestra I breathed the entire thing into life myself.
After the ultimate “Your Anchor”, the viewers requested an encore
“What are we doing now?” he requested. Someone within the viewers requested a “Labyrinth Song.”
“A tragic track, the primary track of the night,” Abhidan laughed earlier than performing it. “I do not wish to end,” he mentioned again to the piano. “Not the whole lot in life is an Instagram filter,” he mentioned. “Everything would not must be lovely, clean and excellent. When artists are on stage, they want to have the ability to settle for the embarrassment from errors in reside performances. And the viewers is within the second of failure. Even in the event that they do, they want to have the ability to settle for and assist artists.”
He then closed the present with “900 days.”
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The harbor was nonetheless windy, however we felt totally different… as a result of music will change you. That’s the magic of music and Asaf Abidan.
Richard Gere’s “Admiration” premiere on the Racht Film Festival
The new Richard Gere movie, “Admiration,” will host an Israeli premiere on the third Racht Film Festival, which will likely be held from February sixteenth to nineteenth.
The competition additionally screened eight Israeli and worldwide movies, together with the Moroccan opening movie Everybody Loves Touda, and later in a documentary by two Ophiel Award winners on the standing of Moroccan girls, Raymond Amsalem and Charles Aznavore. A dialogue continues with a Monsieur Aznaborg. It options uncommon footage of the legendary track.
All movies have subtitles in Arabic. For extra info, see l.ladanly.me/rff-2025