Shuv Kamoni (myself again)

Almost a decade after her last release, on which she performed Barbara’s songs, composer and performer Talya Eliav returns with her fifth album, featuring entirely original songs.

Shuv Kamoni is a healing diary. It traces Talya’s journey of growing up and relearning herself and the world around her. Personal, exposed, courageous, and touching the deepest layers of womanhood.

The songs erupted from within her, one every few years—revelations and insights born out of profound inner processes. Intimate songs that nevertheless reach toward universal themes: pain, desire, and hope.

All these musical and textual elements pass through the wild minds of Eliav and Shai Lowenstein, who co-produced and played on the album alongside her. Their long-standing collaboration once again takes flight toward new heights of emotion and originality—unrestrained and unfiltered.

Over the past decade, Talya’s artistic work has expanded far beyond the Israeli indie scene. She has established herself as an acclaimed composer and recipient of the 2024 Prime Minister’s Award, founded and conducts the pioneering Bat Galim Choir, and has helped shape the musical paths of dozens of students and young musicians in Haifa.

But one thing has never changed: she remains fiercely faithful to her own voice, continually refining and distilling her artistic statement.

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Talya Eliav wins the Prime Minister's award for composers for 2024

The judges' decision: Talya Eliav is a multifaceted musician, and her works in the field of art music show a personal compositional language: in writing for voice she deals with the encounter between sound and pronunciation, and in writing for instruments she explores the sonorities of each instrument, sometimes by using extended playing techniques. The notation she uses also includes verbal instructions, a dictionary of symbols and graphic notation, and it is clear that she draws her inspiration from a variety of sources – impressionism, conceptualism, electronic music and improvisation. All of these serve her naturally to create a sound world in which her personal mark is evident, and in which each work is a miniature musical study. For this, she is awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Composers in the field of concert music for 2024.

Debka Rafah – songs of Emanuel Zamir

“Debka Rafiach” – a meeting of four musicians with roots in Poland, Israel, Egypt, Moldova, reviving together the songs of Emanuel Zamir, an Israeli composer and educator.

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Raphael Roginski – Guitar

Talya Eliav – Vocals

Boris Martzinovsky – Accordion

Giori Politi – Percussion

Recorded in Kicha studios Tel Aviv, 2012

Mix: Shai Lowenstein

Safe Passage – original soundtrack to a short film by Oded Hirsch

Last summer, Talya composed original music for a film that is at the center of a new solo exhibition by the multidisciplinary artist Oded Hirsch, at the Haifa Museum of Art.

After a fruitful joint work of Talya and Oded, the soundtrack was recorded in the mill studio in Shaar Ha'amkim. The wonderful musicians who took part in the performance are Orit Messer Jakobi: cello, Tal Feder: double bass, Shai Lowenstein did the mix with great sensitivity.

The film can be seen at the Haifa Museum until the beginning of January 2023, alongside other fascinating sculpture and video works.

visit Oded Hirsch official website

SafaHoreset (LanguageRuins) | December 2021 concerts

20.12 | 20:30 | Sedek Studio, Jerusalem details

25.12 | 21:00 | Hanut Theatre, Tel Aviv Tickets

30.12 | 10:00 | Arts School, Haifa University

LISTEN – sound installation

Under Haifa Museum's program for community based art, Talya created a small chamber dedicated for the act of listening. Inside this ex-territorial space she brings the sounds collected by herself and her neighbors. The group she gathered explored the neighborhood Bat Galim (Haifa) through ears only, during a period of 6 weeks.