ArtistRack brings to you ‘Sunn’ by the talentedΒ Gidon Schocken and featuring Afik Doari:
When he was only 15 years old, Gidon Schocken began playing guitar. He quickly took affinity for the instrument and began playing in bands. He explored everything from post-rock to hardcore to punk and even noise β but when he was 18, as is mandatory in Israel, he went into the army. Music was on hold for a few years, but after finishing his service he studied music production.
It was still a gradual move from there to his current solo career. Schocken continued playing guitar in bands before dabbling in electronic music, though itβs only in the past three or four years that he moved solely to electronic music. At first, he performed beats with an MPC; then moved to a Maschine. But for the past year, heβs been transitioning to creating full tracks. βI felt a bit limited with staying only in the beat realm,β Schocken says. Israelβs electronic music scene βis really growingβ, he adds, particularly in Tel Aviv, where heβs based. He now creates trip-hop/down-tempo tracks that take influence from artists like Massive Attack, Lorn, John Hopkins, and Nosajthing. Blending βas many different genres into one as I canβ, his goal is to make electronic music sound not only acoustic, but to make it more human.
Gidon Schokenβs latest track, βSunnβ, is his biggest and most compelling yet. Itβs one of a handful that will be included on an upcoming EP, Immerse, thatβs set to be released later this year. βI felt that all the stuff Iβve been through as a musician is coming together on these tracks,β he says about the EP. βSunnβ, in particular, is about getting stuck in behavioral loops β sometimes we donβt realize at first that weβre going through one of these loops, but eventually we can learn how to move through them and release ourselves from them. The song features lyrics and vocals by Afik Doari, a singer with a unique accent. Directed by Stephan Stelman, the video centers around a girl sitting at the dining table. She loses herself for a few moments and is soon stuck in the same loop of eating dinner with her parents. Throughout this, sheβs seen going in to her own little world, where she begins to learn about herself.
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