Rapper Tapesh is the whole package: writer, singer, composer, and he is also a virtuoso on the guitar

The new sound system of the March 2 concert hall in Tel Aviv almost exploded last night (Wednesday) From the beats of DJ Shaz (Shahar Zisman), who almost stole the show for the star of the evening, the musician and rapper ‘Tash‘.

Dozens of fans, of all ages and genders, Filled the clubhouse.

Tapesh came on stage covered in smoke with a long coat and an umbrella. Very quickly the coat and the umbrella flew off, and he started blasting songs from his first and only album so far club; Sakakeen; Talaphonand some gems from the upcoming album, which still has no name.

“Whoever gives the name to the new album will receive NIS 3,000 per beat, later this evening,” he promised. When the audience’s hands rise and fall according to the rhythm, one could imagine for a moment that the performance is taking place in a huge stadium in Europe, and not in an industrial area in the south of Tel Aviv.

Eyal Tapesh He is a member of a Druze family from Beit Jan in the Galilee. He was born in Beit Jan and grew up in Eilat, and he seems to be one of the best writers of protest songs in Israel. The songs are not about conflict or tension between Druze or Arabs and Jews, but talk about injustice, inequality, the rule of tycoons, violence, and the difficulty of the common man living in the country. He performs his texts in Arabic spiced with Hebrew and English, and he fires them at the audience without restraint.

When he takes the guitar in his hands Tapesh is a magician. He is a virtuoso, and it was not for nothing that he was chosen to be Shlomi Shaban’s guitarist. In concert he plays the guitar too little, and when he does it is hard to take your eyes and ears off him. The talent is bursting and it’s hard to say what he is better at – In writing, composing, singing or playing the guitar. Stupid is probably the whole package.

The performance is short, that’s how it is when the songs are compressed. 2-4 minutes of endless words, fast beats and some laughs. Tapesh represents another Israeli, a universal type that expresses itself in a variety of languages ​​and contains diverse identities and musical styles that mix with each other – from blues, through hip hop to metal.

Everyone who is familiar with the phenomenon called ‘tapesh’, recommends getting to the concert as long as possible, “before we have to fly abroad and fight to buy a ticket to the concert at a high price.”