After sharing my personal experience (in part 1) with the 3 most influential songs from this album, I now share its
Track listing : (excerts )
- Less but hurts
- Good night, go to sleep
- The shadow and me
- Trans Orient (instrumental)
- Things I wanted to say
- A story of times past (instrumental)
- Today you are laughing
- Flower
- Yoram
(the links are only for you to discover - once again, I do not promote piracy)
Yehuda Poliker's 4th record was released in 1990 and is my first encounter with this singer.
I was a teen, living in difficult conditions, and three of this album's songs spoke to me as if they were written about my own case :
The first of these is the third on the CD. It's called hazel ve'ani, which means the shadow and me. It tells mostly of him living in the closet (from which he'd come out publicly many years later) ; to me it was about the double life I was leading, and the massive difficulties that lead to this choice... I wasn't allowed to listen to music, mind you, so I had bought a small portable radio that was also a foldable headphone on which I'd listen to this song every time it'd air.
It was my mantra, right from the first notes - drums rolling in, and a dancy pop song ensuing.
