25 years after the first hit that established Aharon as a respected musician and creative master in Jewish music - "The Burning Bush", and a decade after the hit "I Have Established" that established him as a musician in the world of Torah and yeshiva - Aharon reveals his 13th album, the Bar Mitzvah album - "Kaben HaMteghet".
With inspiring consistency and perseverance, Aharon writes and composes week after week, month and year, decade and quarter century, a gifted composer and talented troubadour who moves between populations, communities and shades of Orthodox Judaism, stretching the boundaries of creation between the sacred and the secular, between a sacred channel on Bnei Torah radio, and a playlist on Israeli prime time's Gilgalatz, as he jumps between them naturally.
In his new album, alongside singles that have already been revealed and made their mark, Razel offers beautiful and unusual collaborations such as: "Ani Ahar" with Eviatar Banai, and "Shema Yisrael" with David D'Or.
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Aharon reveals that the new album contains songs that were written twenty-five years ago ("A Simple Kosher Man," "Hurry," "Why Don't You Forget" and "Just One More Tune"), some on a bus ride to Safed as a tormented bachelor, or on the way to a performance at a summer camp in a remote forest in the north.
On the other hand, the album includes songs that were written only in the last year: "I Am the Poor" (which he wrote with his wife Efrat on the pier in Jaffa), "I Am Another" (which he wrote on the piano in the living room when he suddenly remembered a moving text by Maimonides).
Since its release, many have connected to "Moed Katan," which Aharon composed as an interpretation of a moving story by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach that tells the story of a Holocaust survivor, in which he once again reveals himself as a fascinating storyteller and an unparalleled composer.
And this is what Aharon Razel said about the new album: "It's summer again. I find myself writing a few words for my thirteenth album. The world of music has changed so much, the CDs have disappeared, observant singers who grew up on my first albums tell me about 'Mim Rabim' that played in the family car for two years, or about 'Mehboor' that accompanied them throughout their childhood.
""He who loves perseverance and constancy, constancy will love him back. And so for the past year and a half, once or twice a week I go to the studio, we start with a Torah talk, then I pull out a new song or an old sketch and the magic begins. A melody takes shape, sounds rise and fall, and a new album is born.""
