Music

Idan Raichel is considerd to be one of the top famous artists in Israel.

His music combines elements from all over the world.

Every once in a while I'll introduce you to one of my favorite Israeli artists.
There are a lot of good musicians here as well as good singers. Israeli music affects world styles. Idan Raichel is a unique singer, who combines music styles and elements from all over the world.

In his first album “The project of Idan Reihel” he took around 30 singers to sing with him, most of them coming from Ethiopia.

Idan Raichel songs have soft and nice melodies, which penetrate into the heart.

The song I choose to play for you here is based on a popular Ethiopian song “"Nanu Nanu Ney" and the song is called “Mi Maamakim” or in a free translation “From depths” (I hope I translated it correctly, please forgive me if not..).

This is beautiful melody describing the calling from depths to you.
When you return, you'll bring with you the light to the eyes.

Against the moon, which light your path, come to me.
In your ear I whisper and ask.

Who's calling to you at the mid of the night – just listen.
Who'll give everything just to make you happy?

From depths I'm calling to you.

Ok, I tried my best to translate part of the song, don't rely in 100% on this.
However, sometimes you need not understand the words, just listen to the music.

Hope you like this song.
If you like to hear more songs of Idan Reihel you just need to search Idan Raichel or in hebrew: עידן רייכל on YouTube.

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Music Bar

One of my favorites are music bars. There are few which I especially like. One of them is Cnaan music bar in Jerusalem (Shamai St. 15, near the Midrachov@ Ben Yehuda St.).

It's a small place, yet with a warm nice mood. People mainly come to drink good beer and listen to good music. Most of the groups which play there are young bands who are just at the beginning of their musical paths. However, the owners of the place take care to filter out the groups which are not at their standards.

Some evenings soccer games are shown on the big screen and sometimes there are dance evenings, salsa, club, etc.



Yesterday, there was a gig with a young talented singer, who made a great performance. Her name is Yael Shimon and I am pretty sure we'll hear about her in the future. She's a student in Bar – Ilan University writes music and songs in her free time. I strongly recommend hearing her!

The Pub is open every evening apart from Friday night.

Let me know when you around and we can sit down for a good beer.


For Orthodox people, we note that this place is kosher.

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