Solo Career
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). Two years later he recorded his second album, which included "Hiroshima Sheli" (My Hiroshima) and "Tzilo Shel Yom Kaitz" (Summer Day's Shadow).
The album "Hofa'a Haya BeHard Rock Cafe" (Live at the Hard Rock Cafe) that was released in 1995 included many of his songs in new live performances, and two new songs.
While producing albums for other artists, Ashdot continued to work on his own work and released his fourth album, "Zman Kesem" (Magic Time). In 2000, after the release of the first Israeli music downloads internet site, Izhar released a compilation album only through the internet, called "Lech Im HaLev" (Go With The Heart). The album included performances from live shows and previously unreleased recordings. Between 2003 and 2005 he recorded his 5th album, "BeMerhak Negi'a MiKan".
In 2007 Ashdot released another compilation album, "Our Nights". 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.
In January 2008, Izhar expanded his band and went on a new tour, celebrating his love for Irish music.
On "Rikud Katan - The Irish Tour", Izhar invited multi instrumentalist Ehud Nathan, who front's the celtic-Irish instrumental band "Ktifa Sh'hora" (Black Velvet) and violinist Dina Lurie to join his band. The successful tour yielded the live album Rikud Katan which included the eponymous hit song.
In September 2012, Izhar released his 5th studio album, Inian Shel Hergel (A Matter of Habit). The album included three hit singles, Erev Bli Telephone, Yesh Lach Mazal She'at Blondinit and El Esh Behira (with Efrat Gosh).
The title track created a huge impact in October 2012, when it was banned from the Israel Defense Forces Radio. Excerpt (Translated by Richard Silverstein):
- Patrolling all night in the Nablus casbah
- Hey, what here is ours and what’s yours
- The beginning is an experiment
- A rifle butt banging on the door
- Fearful children, a terrified family
- Then a closure, there’s already danger
- Death lies in wait around every corner
- You cock your weapon and your arm trembles
- Your finger tightens around the trigger
- Your heart goes crazy, beats in fright
- It knows that the next one will be a lot easier.
- They aren’t men or women
- They’re only things and shadow
- Learning to kill is a matter of routine."
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