Only a week has passed since the final episode of the second season of ‘The Commander’, which scorched the viewing charts of ‘Kan 11’. Lots of scenes, takes and work finished in less than half an hour which managed to surprise us all and do the impossible – to be even better than the final episode of the first season. But that’s not all: the last two seasons, Yes Yarvo, were accompanied by the rapper Eko and the musician Tomer Katz, who are responsible for all these mystical moments where the music entered our souls, or in short, the brain behind the soundtrack of the series.
If you too have become addicted to the sounds, you are definitely not alone. A moment after the record and a second before another record – the live-session show of the two that will be broadcast this coming Saturday night on ‘Khan 11’ and will turn the soundtrack we heard into a show with and on stage (no spoilers), we have summarized the road together until now. And let me tell you with a subtle hint: we have more to look forward to.
“There is exhaustion, but also huge satisfaction,” said Katz. “There is the work on the series and the work on the soundtrack that we decided to release separately as a filmed show and as an album, which happened in a parallel process. The feeling is super fun, we are most proud of it and excited about it, and happy about the feedback.” “It sounds cliché, but it’s very exciting to be a part of this thing,” admitted Ako, his partner in the project of their lives in recent months. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of something that is greater than the sum of its parts, and it somewhat changes your perspective on joint creation.”
“We wanted to return Atra to its former glory”
“The place the music received in the series has never been done, it’s exciting to be a part of a piece that takes it forward and opens doors to more styles and musicians”, Echo commented on the impressive spotlight that was placed on the musical accompaniment in a way we’ve hardly seen in recent years, with an excitement that was impossible not to notice. “In the first season, it was clear to us as a goal that we wanted the place of the soundtrack in culture to return. When I was growing up, soundtracks were something you went and bought their CD. We wanted to return Atara to its former glory.”
“This world met each of us at a certain time, and it brought out of us things we didn’t know existed at all,” Katz completed her words, just like in the music they create together, “I look at the season itself, both the script and the photography and the music, everything jumped to the dimension of ‘ Let’s see how far we can take things.’ The music tried to speak that.”
They say you don’t mix joy with joy, but there is no escape because there is absolutely a reason. On Saturday we will not only get to wait for the intervals between the scenes in the after binge and listen to the soundtrack in the car, but for a full-length show, which will give us a few last moments of the fragrance of the “Commander” at least until the next season. “There was a certain game here from all sides of stretching the boundaries,” shared Tomer and managed to intrigue, quite easily I would say. “The first thing you feel is that what happens behind the scenes is also revealed. All the sets are part of the scenery.”
About the moment when the two came to the conclusion that a show was the next thing, Echo said: “We decided that we wanted to do something else crazy and give an almost new platform to all the music in the series, and the show is a combination of fantasy and reality. We created such a world where we move between live and fantasy, we wanted to give our emotional meaning to the source of each song. In the end, our soul is inside the songs and it holds our personal story. You have to see to understand where it flows into the worlds of fantasy, we created a visual world.”
Maybe because of my young age, maybe because of the age of the two cool people with whom I had the privilege of talking – the ‘commander’ reminds most of us of our days in olive uniforms, or beige in my case, and brings us back to counting the seconds until receiving the command, to say hello to people we will never meet again in our lives, and to food that hopefully we will only see In bad reviews of restaurants in distant countries.
Precisely in this context, after a short journey into the past, Eko explained at the end of our conversation why the ‘headquarters’ is really not what we thought. “I personally was in exactly the same training, I knew the characters and the smell of the base. In the second season, the truth about the series was revealed, which is also the reason why it was so stormy and emotional.
This is not a series about the army, but about women’s emotional processes, it is a series that allows us to see colors of people that we have not seen until now. What’s exciting about her is that she shows you people that on the one hand you know and for some reason weren’t on the screen, then zooms in and doesn’t turn them into a fig leaf but simply dives deep with you.
I connected to many processes in this season, which talks about a big dream and then some kind of break. This is a reality that comes in the army perhaps for the first time. In the most personal sense, I have a lot of connection to the season, which is very moving, from the most human place of connection to the characters.”
“There is something here that is really different in the landscape”
Katz, a friend of the way, spent his military service in a completely different medium. This did not prevent him from sympathizing with his feelings about the series, which were wrapped together in sounds we had never heard on Israeli television: “You end with this taste of ‘not a good ending, everything is good,’ from something dark. My military service was completely different, but on a human level it is not something you see A lot, there is something here that is really different in the landscape.”
Tomer Katz (Photo: Omri Rosengart)In short, we’ve exhausted the phrase ‘eyes to them’, haven’t we? So I will simply look for other words to say that you will quickly turn the end of the Sabbath to something that has not yet been seen here in our small country. Don’t make plans, or at least make an excuse worthy of the taping – Eko and Tomer Katz are going to leave us with a taste for more and regret that we watched the show from home and not from a distance, and it will be so worth it.