Achinoam Nini and Gil Dor were with Genes & Jeans, their last studio album with mostly original compositions, have gone on autobiographical clues in the traditional music of Israel and the Yemenite Jews. This time they find inspiration in the popular music of South America. You hear mainly in Happy Song. Shalom (A Paz) is a tribute to the Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil.
But the well-known models, American singer-songwriter like Joni Mitchell, can not be denied on Love Medicine. The songwriting is moving on an appropriate level. This is already evident in the outstanding Opener Nothing But A Song.
In addition, seems to work with musicians from the classical disciplines, having recently left the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra for The Israeli Songbook, impression. Enhancers strings already instrumentation previous albums, put on Love Medicine and woodwinds sonic accents. In Deep As Your Eyes can be heard even a harpsichord. Electronic sounds are, however, different only used as example on Blue Touches Blue, restrained.
By the way, the album proves once again that Gil Dor is not only an original arranger, but also a virtuoso guitarist.
Love Medicine tells expected of love: loving relationships between two people of the love between parents and children and, of course, Noa can not help, by the love of people par excellence, such as Eternity and Beauty, composed by Pat Metheny. Nothing But A Song, Eternal Flame - smooth cover of the most famous love songs in pop history - and the subtle waltz You -tu, created in collaboration with Joaquin Sabina, are right at the start of the programmatic Love in the title of the album.
But it also tells of great sadness. The singer with the clear, warm contralto voice that radiates with happiness when she is on stage, shows in Happy song that cheerfulness, optimism and a broken heart can be close to each other. The sadness will culminate in Little Star, with Noa for the first time devoted to the subject of the Holocaust, and in Deep As Your Eyes, in which she sings about the looming shadow of melancholy. But in both songs also a spark of hope lights up.
In contrast, sprayed the last song, the winged Love Love Love - The Beatles are greeting - with enthusiasm. You can hear as a solid pop song it simply going to the legs. With its simple, true, though perhaps a little too bold message, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, LoveLoveLove but is also the most political song of the entire album. Perhaps the surprise those who connect the Noa especially with the angry Calling or the calls for peace of There Must Be Another Way, her duet album with Mira Awad. But political can also be found in other songs on the album, but between the lines:. Dont Be Afraid is in some ways a reprise of The Balancing Act from the album Genes & Jeans In the song Noa encouraged with the typical for them pathos, but without exceeding the limit of kitsch, their children to stand up for their own beliefs and goals. Perhaps they encouraged at the same time himself, because the musician is repeatedly exposed to violent attacks because of their commitment to peace in their homeland Israel. The fanatics met Noa on Love Medicine with quiet wisdom in Look At The Moon, for me one of the strongest, if not the strongest song on the album: do you think she knows the language of our prayers? / Do you think she knows, or even cares? / Do you think she hears our names? / In her eyes were all the same ....