Customer Reviews

Ishtar: Truly Emet - Voice of Alabina

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Truly Emet showcases Ishtar's hauntingly beautiful and soulful voice. Unlike Ishtar's last solo album (which contained mostly tracks written and performed in French) this disk is much more North African in language, style, and rhythm. Tracks #11 and #12 can also be found on La Voix d'Alabina but are still beautiful and are very much appreciated in this album.

Highly recommended!

Actually this cd does not help to showcase Ishtar's North African heritage as it does to showcase her Israeli culture as all but one or two of the songs are in Hebrew; with the exception of Allahalek Ya Sidi which is a classic Arabic pop song, and of course the songs that could be found on her other solo project La Voix d'Alabina. I thought the duet with Ofra Haza was a bit too staged, and I find that duets with dead pop singers (ala Natalie and Nat King) to be maccabre. I wish Ishtar came out with a cd that abandoned the pop-feel of her last two solo albums and went into the more traditional flamenco/Arabic style that may showcase her voice and be easier to dance to then the synthetic stuff. Ishtar still has a gorgeous voice though.

As Ishtar becomes more popular, she is, alas, making the inevitable transition from worldbeat dance diva to pop star. This album reflects this evolution. While there are a couple of uptempo worldbeat songs similar to her earlier albums (both as solo artist and as part of the group Alabina), the exotic instrumentation and heavy percussion are muted here in favor of highlighting her voice in more midtempo (and blander) pop tunes and ballads--more than what I had hoped for. Her voice, nonetheless, is undeniably beautiful and moving---in whatever language! However, if you're looking for a more high-energy exotic dance experience, check out her other solo outing on *La Voix D'Alabina*. Or better yet, sample her singing when she was a member of the group ALABINA.

This is a wonderful album!Ishtar and his autors have mixed very well egyptian sound and hebrew language.Ishtar mix also arabic and hebrew.Great duet also with Ofra Haza.

It is exactly what I supposed to be: a really nice cd of music (moreover, I needed a song from it for a ballroom).

Beautiful,music,voice and body not to be left out of your music collection, even if you don't understand the lingo the music is universial.

The music is almost as good as the cover of the cd.