Asaf Avidan

Anagnorisis Asaf Avidan

Anagnorisis is a literary term, coined by Aristotle, for that sudden moment of revelation of a character. That moment, which through the unveiling of a previously hidden element of a story's plot, the character is confronted by his or her true identity. Transcending from ignorance into knowledge.

After a 10-year non-stop touring regimen, Asaf, approaching his 40th birthday, decided to take "at least one year off the road", and reflect upon his life, career and art. To experience time and space in a different way than during those years of endless movement and changing views. To live differently and to write differently.

While previous albums such as Different Pulses or The Reckoning were penned down in a matter of weeks, something was changing now. It seemed like the presence of nature and silence around him were seeping into his art. Things started to take time. They were cut, groomed, thrown away, replanted. Months went by and the songs were still slowly mutating.