Six long years after his last album, Shalom Hanoch is finally back with his latest rocking release. As usual, he wrote all the music and lyrics. After countless albums, this one is, tellingly, self-titled. Has Shalom Hanoch finally found himself?
One of Israel's rock pioneers, Shalom Hanoch is universally acknowledged as one of the people responsible for making the Israeli music scene what it is today. When he started out in the late 1960s, he and Arik Einstein were basically Israel's entire rock scene, and in the ensuing decades, Shalom lost none of his relevance.