With every album I seem to only be getting deeper into my own biography.
I arrived in Berlin in 2007, aged 20, after refusing the IDF draft back in Tel Aviv - a city where all doors closed, and the word “traitor” followed me everywhere. Berlin then was still a Mecca for outsiders: queers, artists, political dissidents, anyone who could not fit in. It nurtured counterculture, encouraged experimentation, and most importantly, Berlin offered us sanctuary.
'Weimar’ is both personal and political: a testament to resilience, a meditation on history, and a call to remain vigilant, curious, and unafraid.
It asks us to remember that authoritarianism rarely announces itself; it grows quietly.
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