Aviv Geffen

Aviv Geffen (Hebrew אביב גפן ;) ( born May 10, 1973 in Ramat Gan ) is an Israeli pop musicians.

Life

Geffen is the son of Israeli poet Jonathan Geffen and a maternal great-nephew of the former Israeli general and minister Moshe Dayan. He is involved in a real peace between Israel and the Palestinian territories. Geffen is often referred to as a conscientious objector, but was actually released for medical reasons from military service. He is an avowed atheist.

For many young people in Israel Geffen has been since the early 1990s to the idol. In his lyrics Geffen also addressed issues of violence, drugs and alcohol. On November 4, 1995, he stepped in front of thousands of people on that peace rally in Tel Aviv, at the Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by his peace speech. Geffen was then only four meters away from the action. He referred to since the moment of the assassination as " the most dramatic moment of his life ," the made ​​him the peace activists. Experiences such as this has Geffen processed in several songs, such as Liwkot lecha (To cry for you). This song is now considered a synonym for this evening.

After a few solo albums that were successful almost exclusively in Israel, but had there made ​​him a star, he ventured in 2004 along with Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree as a member of the band Blackfield for the first time on the international music market. In addition, Aviv Geffen occasionally works together with the Israeli band project Metro Polin. On 28 August 2009 was also released in Germany that produced by Trevor Horn first English-language solo album Geffen. In January 2009, he already presented some songs of this album on a tour of Germany, including Black and White, Silence, It's Alright and October Song. In November 2009, Geffen toured again through German cities, as well as Utrecht and Vienna. In 2010 he can be seen as a special guest with Nena on German stages.

Discography ( Solo)

  • זה רק אור הירח ( Ze Rak Or haJare'ach [ It's Only The Moonlight ], 1992)
  • עכשיו מעונן ( Achschaw Me'unan [ It's Cloudy Now ], 1993)
  • III אביב גפן ( Aviv Geffen III) ( 1994)
  • שומקום ( Schumakom [ Nowhere ], 1995)
  • המכתב ( haMichtav [ The Letter ], 1996)
  • ירח מלא ( Jare'ach Male [ Full Moon ], Best Of Album 1997)
  • חלולים ( Chalulim [ Hollowed ], 1998)
  • לילות לבנים ( Leilot Lewanim [ White Nights ], 1999)
  • יומן מסע ( Joman Masa [ Journey ], 2000)
  • ממנטו מורי ( Memento Mori, 2002)
  • עם הזמן (Im Hazman [With the Time ], 2006)

Movies

  • A kiss, a murder, a farewell. Israel after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Documentary, Germany, Israel, 1995, 45 min Written and directed by Esther Schapira and George M. Hafner, Production: Hessischer Rundfunk, first broadcast 3 January 1996, Summary of 3sat, is, among other things Geffen busy with the murder of Yitzhak Rabin.
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