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This chaos, this ever-evolving nebula of feelings and thoughts and instances. It tries to impose a structure upon what inherently has a chaotic nature. “While the artist always seeks truth, Art is always a lie. The vibrant noise of Tel Aviv forging with the serene quiet of Italy’s countryside gave the album tension and richness that correspond to the theme of the project. It also added that facet of “multitudes” to the album. “Instead of having studio hours I could start, stop, take a break, continue, do things for hours, again and again, wake up in the middle of the night and record. That proved to be an unexpected advantage for Asaf. We would listen to something together and would then take separate hours to work on things, and virtually “meet up” again.” He would send it back and I’d give comments. “I would record vocals or a guitar riff and send it over to Tamir for processing. Instead of giving up the process, they quickly changed their method and found a way to continue the work. Tamir stayed in Tel Aviv and Asaf in Italy. The album was recorded in segments in that “small room in Tel Aviv”, but as the Coronavirus started to wreak havoc and national lockdowns affected their lives, the two were separated. It’s a slow and Sisyphean process, but it fit the feeling of the album” Slowly watching the songs form from the inside out. Just the two of us, alone, building the songs layer by layer and brick by brick. “I wanted to go back to that small room in Tel Aviv and make the album in the same way we recorded Different Pulses. To help steer this turbulent ship to shore, Asaf called upon his old musical partner Tamir Muskat (producer of Different Pulses and Gold Shadow). The complexity and richness of every moment of life. So many techniques and emotions would come together to emphasize the multiplicity of being. Stacks of dozens of voices recorded again and again to create the effect of many people - all living within his body.įrom piercing falsetto, to theatrical baritone, to his famous androgynous drawl.

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Full gospel choir, men growling, all him. In a moment of clarity, Asaf decided that all the voices in the album would be his own. Somehow this mixture of characters and sounds was able to tell a clearer picture of how I felt. I would take something from each one and mix it all into a schizophrenic jungle of characters, all working from within myself. “I was listening to Thom Yorke, The Fugees, David Bowie, Old school Jazz, even contemporary pop like Billie Eilish or Kanye West. Every song seems to echo with deep roots that search inwards and with structures that seem groomed and precise.Īs those roots searched for nutrients, Asaf, tired of the same musical inspiration, started to look into seemingly strange waters: 90’s hip-hop, modern pop, gospel music. Take time and let the song grow naturally.” Cut, trim and remove big parts for the song to use its energy to grow stronger roots and a stronger structure. Local farmers showed me that by cutting many of the branches, more air was reaching the inside of the tree, more sun, making it stronger and more resilient to parasites and disease.

I was astonished to see how much of the tree had to be cut in order to help it live better. “I remember learning to cut olive branches to prepare the trees for next year.

Months went by and the songs were still slowly mutating. They were cut, groomed, thrown away, replanted. It seemed like the presence of nature and silence around him were seeping into his art. While previous albums such as Different Pulses or The Reckoning were penned down in a matter of weeks, something was changing now. The process would prove to be very different from the past. A lot of green fields and olives, a lot of blue skies, and a lot of quiet and seclusion. The setting he chose was an old farmhouse in Italy that had been turned into a recording studio/writers-retreat. To live differently and to write differently. To experience time and space in a different way than during those years of endless movement and changing views. Transcending from ignorance into knowledge.Īfter a 10-year non-stop touring regimen, Asaf, approaching his 40th birthday, decided to take “at least one year off the road”, and reflect upon his life, career and art. That moment, which through the unveiling of a previously hidden element of a story’s plot, the character is confronted by his or her true identity. Anagnorisis is a literary term, coined by Aristotle, for that sudden moment of revelation of a character.