Re: Tea Packs--interesting Israeli band

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

>The recording "your life in Laffa" was released in 1995, at a time 
>when the East-West fusion was not as popular as it is now...  but 
>it captures something more than that.  In the late sixties and 
>seventies in Israel you could hear music that came from Europe -
>(Greece, France), along with  Mizrachi and Western Rock music.  
>This strange blend was sometimes referred to as music from the 
>"Tachana Merkazit" (the central bus station in Tel Aviv).  The 
>look of the band and the graphics too are reminiscent of the late 
>sixties, early seventies, so for me there is a lot of nostalgia 
>in this recording.  It's excellent!

Well, I was in Israel in the early seventies, so I look forward to
hearing more. My brother is in the process of hunting it down in 
Haifa for me.

What I've heard in what was forwarded to me was quite good. Pop, but
quite good. The lyrics sound a little less mindless than has been the
case since Israeli musicians followed international style and began 
writing their own bad poetry instead of working with the wonderful
Israeli songwriters of old.

I believe that Yankl Falk also suggested the band to me. Anyone else
know of them? Are there other Israeli bands that we might not have heard
of that, perhaps, we should?

ari


Ari Davidow
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