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Moshav


Moshav Band: Duvid Swirsky (vocals, guitar, electric bass, percussion); Yehuda Solomon (vocals, percussion); Yosef Solomon (electric bass). Imagine the jamming of Phish mixed with the vocal strength of Pearl Jam and the spiritual lyrics of U2 seasoned with a Middle Eastern influence, and you can begin to describe the unique sound of Moshav. It's not typical for a band that the mainstream rock world is not yet familiar with to make their first mainstream release a Best Of compilation but, for Moshav, already well-known and hugely successful in the Judaic market, it makes perfect sense. Although their music comes from and is steeped in the Jewish culture of their upbringing, Moshav is as mainstream as any pop/ alternative band. Raised on the Moshav Meor Modi'im, a musical village in the hills between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, the three young men who make up Moshav -- Yehuda (vocals, percussion), Duvid (vocals, guitar), and Yosef (bass) -- have learned and played music since childhood. The American parents of Yehuda and Duvid had come to Israel in 1972 — just in time for the Yom Kippur war. They settled on a Moshav; a similar lifestyle to a kibbutz but with more autonomy and independence for the family, where their children were born and raised. When we were growing up, explains Duvid, the only electrical appliance in the house was a record player. So, while American kids might be growing up watching television and playing video games, we were growing up listening to music. The...

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