Music Makers

Dressed in black formals,a group of nine Israeli musicians introduced a new genre of music to the city dwellers on Saturday night at Nu.Deli QBA in Chanakyapuri.

Israeli band Nasty Peach was in town to entertain Delhiites with their funky music

Dressed in black formals,a group of nine Israeli musicians introduced a new genre of music to the city dwellers on Saturday night at Nu.Deli QBA in Chanakyapuri. As part of a seven-city tour to India,the Tel Aviv-based Nasty Peach band delivered their last performance of their tour in the Capital,where they performed their variety of Funky Soul to the almost full house at the venue. Our music has elements of soul,pop,rock and jazz too,besides the funk element that we add to it, says Noam Levinburg,the group manager,a frequent visitor to Chennai,where he works with the Earthsync Label. Levinburg also revealed the secret behind the name of the band. About five years ago,we all bet on how many of us can survive without aerated drinks. To win it,we all started drinking Nestles Peach drink. Later when we decided to form a band that was the first thing that occurred to us, grins Levinburg.

Friends since childhood,the band came together in 2006 when Ben,the guitarist and Yony,the drummer started penning down lyrics. Soon Odelia,Tal,Jonathan,Meitar,Camar,Gal and Mayan followed and finally Nasty Peach became a known name in Israel.

We are not stars back home,but we do enjoy special status, guffaws Jonathan,the drummer.

The band will hopefully produce an album by early 2011 under Israeli music producer,Patrick Sebeg and then they will be back in India for another tour. The response in India has been varied. People loved us in Mumbai but in Chennai and Hyderabad the response was indifferent, says a modest Levinburg,narrating how a meal in Hyderabad had made the entire band fall ill,cutting short their plans of sight-seeing,even aborting one of their two performances at their next stop,Pune. In Delhi though they intend to make up for it in the three days they have in the city.

Some of their popular renditions that made many groove at their Delhi concert were Hold my hand,Innocent and Yaani. Though the band consciously makes an effort to stay away from commenting on the political situation in Israel,some of their songs do have a personal touch. Yaani,for instance,is the story of a band members girlfriend who was in the army. Its about her struggles and the wish to break free, mentions Levinburg.

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Music Makers

Dressed in black formals,a group of nine Israeli musicians introduced a new genre of music to the city dwellers on Saturday night at Nu.Deli QBA in Chanakyapuri.

Dressed in black formals,a group of nine Israeli musicians introduced a new genre of music to the city dwellers on Saturday night at Nu.Deli QBA in Chanakyapuri.