Izhar Ashdot

Ashdot spent a significant part of his childhood years in various countries, including Greece, France, and Cambodia, to which his parents travelled for work.

Ashdot continued working on his own music and recorded the song "Me'uma Lo Kara" (Nothing Happened), which later became T-slam's biggest hit, retitled "Lir'ot Ota Haiom" (Seeing Her Today).

Ashdot, Nitzani and Bassan joined forces with Yoshi Sade, Tzuf Philosof and Sami Avzardel and formed T-Slam, a successful rock band.

In the 80s he worked with numerous artists, including Boaz Sharabi, Si Himan, Adam, Corinne Allal, Alon Ole'archik, Friends of Natasha (החברים של נטאשה) and Ofra Haza.

After the successful T-Slam reunion shows in 1990, Ashdot started to work on his first solo album, released in 1992 and eventually reaching "gold" status.

The album included "Ish HaShokolad" (Chocolate Man), "HaLelilot Shelanu" (Our Nights), "Ma Tomri" (What Will You Say) and "No'a Shel HaYam" (The Sea's No'a).

In addition to Izhar's greatest hits, the album included three new songs – Kvish LeKivun Ehad ("One Way Road"), which he composed to his and Filosof's lyrics; Le'an Paneinu Achshav (Free Translation: "Where Are We Headed Now") and Mata'ei HaDuvdevan Shel Ukraina (" The Cherry Orchards of Ukraine"), in which he cooperated with Israeli singer and rapper Muki.

The album included three hit singles, "Erev Bli Telephone", "Yesh Lach Mazal She'at Blondinit" and El Esh Behira.

The album included six songs co-written with Yali Sobol and six instrumental tracks which Izhar composed and performed with a Eurorack Modular synthesizer rig.

Izhar Ashdot playing with T-Slam during a performance in Achziv beach in celebration of 60 to Israel.
Izhar Ashdot at his studio in Tel Aviv, 2017
shooting the Kfar Zarfati music video in Tel Aviv, 2017. Photo by Itai Raziel