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Płyta z 1993 r. Oryginalne wydanie Swim.
hroughout the 1980s Malka Spigel was the bassist and vocalist with influential post punk band Minimal Compact. Formed in Amsterdam by three Tel Aviv émigrés, who would produce a series of highly prescient albums and singles. But by 1988 the band had dissolved and Spigel began to plot her next move.

Released in 1993, Rosh Ballata would prove to be a quantum leap forward from anything she had created before. The album takes its cue from the worlds of shoegaze and trip hop, yet it wears these influences very lightly. More significantly, unlike every other indie record of the era, it would be sung in Hebrew.

"Like Bjork, this is not world music but world class pop" - Stephen Dalton in NME

"I'd always written and sung in English, and I think the lyrics I wrote in Hebrew have quite a naive, little girl quality, and it suits the music. Which may be part of its charm." - Malka Spigel

Rosh Ballata's over-riding mood is one of optimism and unfolding possibilities. This is typified by the sun-drenched glide of Besof Hayom, which comes over like the soundtrack to an infinite hazy summer, whilst the bright skipping rhythms of Lisgor Sipor Yashan might almost suggest Kylie Minogue in a parallel world! But there are moments of shade too, such as the brooding psychedelic drift of Yestiney or the mesmeric metallic art pop of Rotsa Ladat Od.

"The album became a hybrid of my childhood sense of local music - interesting musicians working the 70s I used to hear on the radio - plus the influences of the time we recorded." - Malka Spigel

Spigel worked closely with partner and Wire main-man Colin Newman, writing and recording with input from former Minimal Compact colleague Samy Birnbach - who also wrote the lyrics to two songs. Another two songs feature texts by the acclaimed poets Anton Shammas and Dahlia Ravikovich.

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