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Product description New release from one of Israels biggest artists. With over 50 albums to her credit, Chava Alberstein is an Israeli icon. After recording her last two albums abroad, she returned to Israel to create her new release, END OF THE HOLIDAY. Often focusing on the margins of Tel Aviv society, END OF THE HOLIDAY is a moving portrait of contemporary Israeli life. Produced by Ovad Efrat. Albersteins quivering tenor is sublimely expressive... Entertainment Weekly Includes: End of the Holiday, Real Estate, Vera from Bucharest, Black Video, Shadow, Psalms, Empty Synagogue, Boiling Water, Friday Night, Dying Creek, Fellini in New York. Amazon.com The noted Israeli singer-songwriter has fashioned a suite of wry modern tales, related via literate yet colloquial Hebrew lyrics and easy-going folk-pop arrangements. Her rich, chesty alto sings of people who are trying to belong or just passing through. A poorly-paid Romanian immigrant must suddenly deal with unfamiliar Jewish funeral rites. A single worshipper waits in vain near a synagogue. Noisy post-holiday crowds return to mundane concerns, crowding the streets as they head back to their cars. Drunkards carouse amid the Sabbath hush, racism appears in insidious guises, a couple exists in polite estrangement, and tourists wander about with video cameras, seeing nothing. In a New York coffee house without reading glasses, Alberstein squints at a neighboring patron's newspaper, trying to figure out why Federico Fellini is front page news. Daily life consists of minute indignities and triumphs. Alberstein enlightens us about this process with humor, sympathy and tact. --Christina Roden
I very much enjoy Chava Alberstein's traditional Yiddish music, but her Hebrew popular music does less for me. This is an album entirely of the latter. She has a wonderful voice and gives great color to her songs, but you have to be into the Hebrew side of her music to fully appreciate it.
