Assaf Amdursky
Encyclopedia
Music career
Amdursky began his career in Israel with the band "Taarovet Escot", and together they released one album in 1991.http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/artist/Amdursky,%20Assaf/a/Assaf%20Amdursky.htm In 1994, he wrote and composed most of the songs in his first solo album, titled "Assaf Amdusrky", which was released in 1994. In it he played guitarGuitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, keyboards
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, percussion, bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, harmonica
Harmonica
The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
, and trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
. The album was re-mastered and released again in 2008.
In 1999 Amdursky published his album Menoim Shketim (Silent Engines) with the song "15 minutes," which went gold.
During the mid-1990s, Amdursky moved to the United States to pursue a DJ and dance music
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
production career. He teamed up with Friburn & Urik
Friburn & Urik
Friburn & Urik is a house music duo of producers and remixers, consisting of Ronen "Friburn" Horin and Yuval Urik. In addition to their extensive remix work, they began having hits as artists on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1999...
to produce a remix for their debut single “You Got My Love” on Sub Culture Records. With production partner Omri Anghel, he formed "Hard Attack." The duo released their first single on the Jellybean Recordings Label, “Set Me Free”, which immediately climbed its way up to the top-20 Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Dance Music chart.
During 1999-2002 Amdursky released a number of remixes and original tracks as a producer, in collaboration with Israeli producer Haim Laroz. Back in Israel, Amdursky released a live album in 2000, which documents a live show with a new electronic version to his earlier songs. In 2000 he was awarded the Israeli Singer of the Year award (the "Tamuz Prize"), and the Album of the Year award for Silent Engines.http://www.tasteofisrael.org/?pg=business&CategoryID=158&ItemID=11
Amdursky also worked as the music producer on the movies Nina's Tragedies
Nina's Tragedies
Nina’s Tragedies is a 2003 Israeli dramedy film directed by Savi Gavison and starring Ayelet Zurer, Yoram Hattab, Alon Abutbul, Shmil Ben Ari, and Anat Waxman. It won 11 Ophir Awards.-Plot summary:...
(2003), Ahava Columbianit (2004), and Lost Islands (2008).http://www.mooviees.com/140338-Asaf-Amdurski/celebrity
In 2005 he produced a double cover album, which interprets 1980s Israeli songs with a touch of electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
.
Amdursky's self-released studio album Harei At (There You Are), released in 2008, also went gold.http://cdbaby.com/cd/assafamdursky3 It combined 11 new rock, pop, and jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
style songs, all dealing with love and partnerships.http://www.jerusalem.com/discover/item_953/Assaf-Amdursky----Harei-Athttp://www.judaicawebstore.com/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=999186
Personal life
Amdursky was married for 12 years to singer/songwriterSongwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
Michal Amdursky
Michal Amdurski
Michal Amdursky is an Israeli dancer and singer.-Biography:Michal Amdursky was married to Assaf Amdursky, with whom she has two children. She is one of the pioneers of the Israeli Dance Music genre. Amdurski began dancing at the age of 6 at the studio of the Bat-Dor Dance Company...
, who came out with a solo album after her divorce from Amdursky. The divorce is the subject of some of the songs on her album, in which she sings of emerging finally from her ex-husband's shadow.http://www.jerusalemonline.com/TextArchive/kwsearch.asp?kw=idf&p=0