Those who were looking for humor got it in “Omer’s Songs”. Those who were looking for musical diversity got, for example, the swing of “Accords in Nights”, the happy ash with the Turkish tone “Thursday Friday”, one of several, and influences of hip hop on some of the songs, in some of which Cohen actually raps. With the flared jeans and the baggy denim jacket, he sometimes looks like the Mediterranean answer to the grand guys. One of Cohen’s musical secrets is the ability to take relatively “heavy” elements and lighten them for the young audience. So in the classical influence, so in the Turkish influence, so in hip-hop and trap.
The climax of the party came with “Kakaka Vakaka”, the kind of rhythmic songs that today there is no hafela or oebat without them, but for Cohen these songs were not created to be danced at a wedding. Unlike the generation that paved the way for them 15 and a decade ago, the generation of singers to which Cohen belongs, do not record songs that are predestined for weddings, ballads for canopies and rhythms for dancing, they are much more authentic in their approach, and if there is a song about depression, or longing or a broken heart, then let it be depression, And the young audience proves that it connects with him.
The peak of emotion in the show came in “Tarkadi”, which was written after the war and in memory of the victims of the Nova Berai party. This song, well written and composed, has a chorus melody that tugs at the heart and doesn’t let go, and while a lone dancer sauntered across the stage, Cohen reached his peak as a performing singer.
The tendency of his friends to sing folk Jewish songs these days to the delight of the audience, he partially adopted with a short segment from “We believe, we believe”, and he did not forget the roots with “Ya bint al Sultan” in the tail of one of the verses. “Binat al Sultan” is already considered a cliché in the genre, a kind of cheap trick that singers use to get the crowd going, sometimes even spontaneously, but Cohen comes from the heart, and it was hard to miss his pleasure, as young people, whose parents were just born when this Arab anthem became a hit here before decades, dancing and singing it.
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