Words & Music: Cricket Joe (Joe Rosen)

Wouldn't Even Care (Sony and Share Remix):

Produced by Sony and Share -

Boaz (Zico) Goldberg & Liad (Lousha) Loushi

Remix engineered & mastered By Liad Loushi (Jew Ecsotic)

Vocals: Sharon Sometimes (Sharon Reuveni)

Electronics: Liad Loushi (Jew Ecsotic)

Check out Jew Ecsotic on #SoundCloud

https://on.soundcloud.com/rSvBQ

Wouldn't Even Care (Acoustic version):

Words & Music: Cricket Joe (Joe Rosen)

Guitar, Keyboards: Cricket Joe (Joe Rosen)

Vocals: Sharon Sometimes (Sharon Reuveni)

Tambourine: Rich Millin

Acoustic version here: https://cricket-joe.bandcamp.com/track/wouldnt-even-care

Music Video:

Shot, Edited & Directed By Boaz Goldberg

Starring: Sharon Sometimes, Cricket Joe, Jew Ecsotic

Watch the official music video here: https://youtu.be/ACJ9iZRizc0

thank you: Erez Moshe

“Wouldn't Even Care” is originally an acoustic Indie-pop/ Chamber pop song for which Joe wrote the music and lyrics. At first, the cricket himself sang it - and it came out nice. Then he brought some Chinese singer from Berlin and it turned out a little less well. Then, on the third attempt, this happened: Joe decided to bring Sharon Reuveni to sing for him. Boom. The song became perfect. If anyone knows how to sing, it's Sharon. And how did I know it all? Because Joe, who's based in Berlin, likes to send me files of his recordings right after he closes an initial mix.

I played this thing to Lousha, while we were sitting at my place not long ago, firecrackering and babbling. Lousha: "What an indie song!!!". And I'm like: "Lousha, we've been talking about the Sony and Share project for more than 12 years. In theory, we have a whole album ready, with titles and names for the songs and everything. And you, busy with your politics and demonstrations, haven't sat down on your Cubase for about three years. Come on Let's Remix it! Lousha!?!¤*#!".

I didn't have to say much more. Lousha understood that there was a real opportunity here. We were immediately thrown back 11 years, to the old, bigger Zimmer, in Hagdood Ha-Ivry Street, Tel Aviv, to an Opioids gig. It's not just how Sharon sings, but also how she performs. Me and Lousha in the audience, flying on it. I especially remember the song “Frustration”, with the strong metallic breaks, the blocked chords and the rhythm changes. What a beauty. And no less beautiful is that today, when I hear Sharon perform her song “Stupid Situations” as Sharon Sometimes, I can even hear fragments of late 70’s/early 80’s Peter Hammill going on there, whether Sharon is aware of it or not. In short, this is a special singer and, as our friend Rafi Perach likes to write, versatile...

"Pink World" official music video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnG0OCZ1is

This is the first song that Gabi Abudraham, later to be known as CHARLIE MEGIRA, recorded on his 4-channel tape. It happened in 1999 and it was titled "Pink World" (OLAM VAROD). The recording itself was lost, but what was not lost is the whole movement of the song inside my head. It was supposed to be a song by Les` Lost Boys (Naarey Ha-Hefker) - the short-lived duo of Gabi and mine. We worked on it a lot and then we stopped, but I - even in periods where I had not played for many years - saved it. And saved. And saved. Now the song "Pink World" is reborn, and this time I do the guitars and vocals. Charlie Megira would call such an act: “the other possibility”. A bit like you see in one of his favorite films, “Mulholland Drive”, with all the parallel realities happening there. Eventually I chose to release it as an outtake from my documentary film about CHARLIE MEGIRA, Tomorrow's Gone (available to watch on Vimeo-on-demand). This song is also part of my solo LP as ZICO, titled "Headless Elvis" and available here at my Bandcamp profile.

Words and Music by Goldberg-Abudraham (Les` Lost Boys/ Naarey Ha-Hefker, 2000)

Boaz Goldberg (ZICO): Electric Guitar, Vocals

Produced by Boaz Goldberg & Sagi Barnes

Recording Engineer, Mix & Mastering: Sagi Barnes

"Pink World" was recorded in 2017

SuperShaker is a postmodern electronic duo from 1990's Tel Aviv

Super! (A-Side)

Shaker (B-Side)

All music written* & produced by SuperShaker

Compiled, edited & recorded @Dvirsky's Studio, Summer 1996

* (except samples)

SuperShaker are:

Dvir Volk - 90's sources (beats), programming, Midi, keyboards, editing & engineering

Boaz Goldberg - 60's sources, bass

SuperShaker photos: Noam Wind

Single assembled & edited by Boaz Goldberg

* * *

SuperShaker - another little treasure I discovered hiding in my cassette collection. This is a postmodern duo by Dvir Volk and me from 1996, which, like so many notable titles in the 90's, also received the word "super". The idea was to merge 90's big beats with samples of Mod bombs and Rhythm and Blues hits - and then, through the amphetamines that the samples get, to create something new. It wasn't what they called "Big Beat" back then. At the time we were working on SuperShaker, Fatboy Slim had yet to release his debut album, and his first single, released in March 1996, was not so impressive for our ears. We didn't understand exactly what we were doing, so, at least in our eyes, it turned out gracefully.

We didn't try to create something new in the modern sense of the word. Let's say that the atmosphere in which we operated was so postmodern, that in the show itself, under the influence of some promo photo of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd from 1967, it was very important for me to show that my bass guitar was *not* plugged in, and this is to emphasize the synthetics of the music we created. I performed with the guitar on me but without any cable. I wanted to look sort of like a mannequin on Carnaby Street in 1966, and I think it worked. After all, our one and only performance took place at one of the Glory Nights Mod parties.

I remember myself standing there in front of the railing of the gallery, next to the DJ stand where Dvir was playing the tracks, and catching Gabi (Charlie Megira) on the stairs with Natan and Michal Boaz (his first girlfriend), staring at me, his eyes popping from the strange doll idea.

Dvir and I, SuperShaker. At the time we were both members of Cnaque/pop band going on a musical side project. While things in Cnaque/Pop became a bit nerve-racking about the contract that NMC would or wouldn't offer (there was a meeting at Cafe Tam, after which we were left in the air) - SuperShaker was a fun and refreshing release from all the Cnaque madness.

That summer of 1996, I hung around at the apartment of Dvir and his flat-partner Lisa Peretz, there in Arlozorov near Yehoshua ben Nun. Dvir was a golden guitarist, everyone knew that, but in the summer of 1996 - an early stage in his musical career - not many knew that Dvir also knew how to work with midi and create electronic music.

In the A-side track you hear, for example, the drums of Charlie Watts (who recognizes from which Stones song?) put on a loop and holding the whole thing. Or the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" riff being flipped and manipulated. And the crazy moogs from the easy listening classic "Kaleidoscopic Vibrations" also came to the party. The B-side came out more in the atmosphere of a band that we really loved then (and still love) - Saint Etienne. You can also feel strong lounge influences like Towa Tei (the Japanese guy from Deee-Lite) and Stereolab. After all, we are talking about a summer in which the phenomenon of Mike Flowers Pops was powerfully enchanting. For a few months, it seemed that the whole world turned into a beautiful Easy Listening album cover.

Gabi My Friend by ZICO (Boaz Goldberg)

Pink World by ZICO (Boaz Goldberg)

The Chopper by ZICO (Boaz Goldberg)

Charlie`s Leap (Zoozoo Otamootoo Reimagined) by ZICO (Boaz Goldberg)

Zico`s Way by ZICO (Boaz Goldberg)

Frankengolem by ZICO (Boaz Goldberg)

Pink Punk by ZICO (Boaz Goldberg)