Berry Sakharof & Rea Mochiach: Red Lips

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Often called the “prince of Israeli rock,” singer/guitarist/composer Berry Sakharof makes a rare Bay Area appearance with an inspired conceptual project, Adumei HaSfatot (“Red Lips”). As heard on his acclaimed 2009 companion CD, Sakharof’s original music for Adumei HaSfatot melds the sound of contemporary guitar rock with melodic and rhythmic influences from Middle Eastern musics.

The project’s lyrics, however, hark back much farther, to the “Golden Age of Spanish Jewry”: the 11th-century Hebrew poetry of Rabbi Shlomo Ibn Gabirol, one of the outstanding poets of Muslim Spain. The result is a powerful rock concert that brings together East and West, classical and contemporary, sacred and secular.

Sakharof first came to widespread prominence in the 1980s as a founding member of Minimal Compact, one of the first Israeli rock bands to win international fame. After the group’s 1988 breakup, Sakharof became a solo artist, achieving enormous critical and popular success in Israel with albums like Signs of Weakness (voted the #11 album of all time by the readers of the prominent Israeli news site ynet), Touches, and The Other (inspired by the work of French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas). His music for film has twice earned the Award of the Israeli Film Academy.

Saturday, January 29, 2011 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Stanford memorial Auditorium • 551 Serra Mall, Stanford (Map)
$10-$68