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Asaf Avidan
Asaf Avidan ( he, אסף אבידן; born March 23, 1980) is a singer-songwriter from Israel. From 2006 to 2011, he was part of the group Asaf Avidan & the Mojos, independently releasing three studio albums. '' The Reckoning'', their debut record, was certified Gold in Israel and became one of the best-selling independent albums in the country. After disbanding in 2011, a 2012 remix of Asaf Avidan & the Mojos' single "Reckoning Song" (2008) by German disc jockey Wankelmut — retitled into One Day / Reckoning Song — attained widespread commercial success throughout Europe. It topped the charts in several countries and was certified Gold and Platinum. In 2012, Avidan started a solo career, eventually releasing three studio albums to moderate success in European countries. Life and career 1980–2006: Early life and career Asaf Avidan was born on 23 March 1980 in Jerusalem to diplomats for the Israeli Foreign Office. He spent four years of his childhood in Jamaica, attending The ...
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. is a city in Western Asia. Situated on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, it is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world and is considered to be a holy city for the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Both Israelis and Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their Capital city, capital, as Israel maintains its primary governmental institutions there and the State of Palestine ultimately foresees it as its seat of power. Because of this dispute, Status of Jerusalem, neither claim is widely recognized internationally. Throughout History of Jerusalem, its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed at least twice, Sie ...
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Bass Guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses. Since the mid-1950s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music. The four-string bass is usually tuned the same as the double bass, which corresponds to pitches one octave lower than the four lowest-pitched strings of a guitar (typically E, A, D, and G). It is played primarily with the fingers or thumb, or with a pick. To be heard at normal performance volumes, electric basses require external amplification. Terminology According to the ''New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', an "Electric bass guitar sa Guitar, usually with four heavy strings tuned E1'–A1'–D2–G2." It also defines ''bass'' as "Bass (iv). A contraction of Double bas ...
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Gold Shadow
''Gold Shadow'' is the second solo studio album of Israeli artist Asaf Avidan after his first album entitled '' Different Pulses''. The album containing 12 tracks was released on 12 January 2015 in Israel on Telmavar Records and in Europe on Polydor-Universal Music Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as just Universal Music) is a Netherlands, Dutch–United States, American multinational Music industry, music corporation under Law of the Netherlands, Dutch law. UMG's cor ... and on iTunes and Amazon on January 22, 2015. Track list #"Over My Head" (2:37) #"Ode to My Thalamus" (3:38) #"The Jail That Sets You Free" (3:18) #"Little Parcels of an Endless Time" (3:25) #"My Tunnels Are Long and Dark These Days" (4:32) #"Gold Shadow" (4:30) #"Let's Just Call It Fate" (3:12) #"These Words You Want to Hear" (3:27) #"A Part of This" (3:42) #"Bang Bang" (3:23) #"The Labyrinth Song" (4:08) #"Fair Haired Traveller" (4:11) Charts Weekly charts ...
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Syndicat National De L'Édition Phonographique
The National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing (french: Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique; SNEP) is the inter-professional organisation that protects the interests of the French record industry. Originally known under the acronym SNICOP, the organisation was established in 1922 and has 48 member companies. SNEP's responsibilities include collecting and distributing royalty payments for broadcast and performance, preventing copyright infringement of its members' works (including music piracy), and sales certification of silver, gold, platinum and diamond records and videos. SNEP also compiles weekly official charts of France's top-selling music, including singles and albums. Official charts History The first attempt at a French national chart of best-selling records originated from a request by the American music industry magazine '' Billboard''. The magazine's French correspondent, Eddie Adamis, compiled a top 10 list of the country's preferred format, the exten ...
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Sanremo Music Festival 2013
The Sanremo Music Festival 2013 (''63° Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo 2013'') was the 63rd annual Sanremo Music Festival, a televised song contest held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, Liguria, between 12 and 16 February 2013 and broadcast by Rai 1. The show, presented by Fabio Fazio with Italian comedy actress Luciana Littizzetto, featured two different competitions. The Big Artists section included 14 established Italian artists, competing with two songs each. During the semi-finals, a song for each artist was eliminated as a result of votes received by public and journalists. On 16 February 2013, Marco Mengoni, based on a combination of televotes and points awarded by a jury, was announced the winner of the competition, with his song " L'essenziale". The Newcomers' section featured eight songs performed by debuting or little known artists. On 13 and 14 February 2013, music journalists and televotes determined the four finalists of the competition. The final winne ...
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Different Pulses
''Different Pulses'' is the first solo studio album of Israeli artist Asaf Avidan after the split-up of his band "Asaf Avidan and the Mojos". The album containing 11 tracks was released in Israel on Telmavar Records in 2012 with a European release in 2013 on Polydor-Universal Music Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as just Universal Music) is a Netherlands, Dutch–United States, American multinational Music industry, music corporation under Law of the Netherlands, Dutch law. UMG's cor .... Track list #"Different Pulses" (4:30) #"Setting Scalpels Free" (3:41) #"Love It or Leave It" (4:30) #"Cyclamen" (4:02) #"613" (4:00) #"Thumbtacks in My Marrow" (3:27) #"Conspiratory Visions of Gomorrah" (5:24) #"A Gun & a Choice" (3:17)Also titled "A Choice & a Gun" oAsaf Avidan's website/ref> #"Turn" (4:05) #"The Disciple" (4:49) #"Is This It?" (3:40) Charts References {{Authority control 2012 albums ...
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Asaf is a name. People with the name include: Given name *alternate spelling of Saint Asaph (died 601), Welsh Roman Catholic saint and bishop *Asaf-ud-Daula, Nawab wazir of Awadh *Asaf Abdrakhmanov (1918–2000), Soviet sailor during World War II; award the title Hero of the Soviet Union *Assaf Amdursky (born 1971), Israeli singer, songwriter and music producer *Asaf Ali (1888–1953), Indian independence fighter and lawyer *Asaf Assi Dayan (born 1945), Israeli film director, actor, screenwriter and producer; son of Moshe Dayan *Asaf Avidan (born 1980), Israeli singer-songwriter and musician * Asaf Duraković (born 1940), Croatian physician and expert in nuclear medicine and depleted uranium * Asaf Hanuka (born 1974), Israeli illustrator and comic book artist, notable for his autobiographical comic The Realist *Assaf Hefetz (born 1944), commissioner of the Israeli Police *Asaf Humayun (born 1951), retired vice admiral of the Pakistan Navy *Asaf Khan (other), several Mughal ...
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Folk Music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers, music that is played on traditional instruments, music about cultural or national identity, music that changes between generations (folk process), music associated with a people's folklore, or music performed by custom over a long period of time. It has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. The term originated in the 19th century, but folk music extends beyond that. Starting in the mid-20th century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the (second) folk revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is sometimes called contemporary folk music or folk rev ...
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern (the blues scale and specific chord progressions) of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current str ...
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Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ...
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Through The Gale
''Through the Gale'' is the third album of Asaf Avidan & the Mojos Asaf Avidan ( he, אסף אבידן; born March 23, 1980) is a singer-songwriter from Israel. From 2006 to 2011, he was part of the group Asaf Avidan & the Mojos, independently releasing three studio albums. '' The Reckoning'', their debut recor ... in Israel released in 2010Musicaneto: Asaf Avidan & The Mojos - ''Through the Gale'' - review
(in Hebrew) independently after the success of their debut 2008 album '' The Reckoning'' and the follow-up 2009 album '' Poor Boy / ...
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Poor Boy / Lucky Man
''Poor Boy / Lucky Man'' is the second album by Asaf Avidan & the Mojos. It was independently released in Israel in 2009 after the success of their debut 2008 album '' The Reckoning''. Released in Israel on 9/9/09 (9 September 2009), the album was originally released in two different names, covers and second track title, leaving it up to the audience to decide whether this figure was poor or lucky. Again hugely popular like ''The Reckoning'' album, it would reach gold status in Israel in five months; it garnered ecstatic reviews. The album was released in parts of Europe in April 2011. Among others, it was album of the month on France's national FIP radio, in the newspaper ''Libération ''Libération'' (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far-left of France's ...'', and in Germany's ''eclipsed'' magazine. T ...
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