Yohanan Zarai - Is Tel Aviv Burning?
Posted on October 6, 2007 by Milan
The Israeli film Shishim Sha'ot L'Suetz aka 60 Hours to Suez aka Is Tel Aviv Burning? apparently came out only 5 months after the 5 day war (1967) had ended, giving an account of those events. War movies don't generally generate the best soundtracks, and this was still many years before Apocalypse Now. But this is a pretty good LP. The music is rather eclectic, with beat stuff, some good folk songs and some solo trumpet jazz noodling. The standout tracks are psychedelic jazz of sorts, experimental, dark and with what seems to be existential depth to them. Listen to The death of uri, with psychedelic drumming, muted trumpet, ominous guitar and aspects of collage, all building towards a tense climax. 5th of june is build around a dark gong/cymbal drone to which jazz drums, woodblocks, muted trumpet and brass in low registers is added. Why this record was released in Holland only, privately, remains a mystery.
Filed under: Indian / Asian, Psych / Prog, Soundtracks, World Jazz
8 Comments to “Yohanan Zarai - Is Tel Aviv Burning?”
Wasn’t it the “Six-Day War?”
Could be.
Thanks Dave, It’s quite good indeed.
I agree, great selctions. Sounds not unlike Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack for “Battle of Algiers”. Joe’s right it is called “The Six Day War”, but maybe technically it only lasted five… After all, “The Hundred Years War” lasted a ghastly 130 years… something like that… Cool disk!
Yes, great LP and rare, but it was not only issued in Holland, but in fact it had an Israelian LP-release with nearly the same cover-artwork (same photo, just the writing = titles is/are different) on the HED-ARZI-label, number BAN 49-74 in 1967.
Thanks for the info!
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killer stuff there milan. sounds like bruno nicolai on a good day. thanks for sharing. i guess you scored cause i’ve never heard of the movie, record or composer.