HaPatrikim

Some History

Summer 1985. Live Aid shakes the world from London.
Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, a small club hosts a youth rock band contest to choose who will play at an upcoming new Music Festival in Arad.
Dudy Levy, Eyal Shechter, Amir Ben-David, and Tal Yaniv were teenagers then — bedrooms plastered with rock star posters, and heads full of dreams about composing, recording, and performing.
Dudy arrived with a small group from Holon called Medium. Eyal, Amir, and Tal came from the Haifa suburbs with a band named Faust. It was everyone’s first time on stage — and it ended with a merciless newspaper review.
The humiliation was so deep that both bands reacted in the only way they knew: by changing their names.
That’s how Noar Shulaim (“Juvenile Delinquency”) and Avtipus were born.

40 years later, back to present:

Decades passed. Hundreds of songs, thousands of shows, platinum and gold records, chart hits, film scores, and solo albums later, the two bands met again for what was meant to be a one-off show. But the chemistry was instant — and irresistible. An idea began to form: to go back to those naïve early days, when we had no idea what we were doing, only an unconditional devotion to music and the joy of soaring with it.

This was the birth of HaPatrikim.
It began as free-flowing jam sessions — no plans, no goals — just playing together. Like high school kids plugging in their amps, singing, and seeing where it goes. Letting go, letting it happen. The songs started piling up and setting their own demands. And as experienced musicians, we knew: when a song makes demands, you have to give yourself to it completely. These songs led us to Liron Amram and Or Edry — two phenomenal musicians who added an entirely new dimension. Adding drummers Ronen Evron (Avtipus) and Roy Shaked (Noar Shulaim) was only natural.

Now, after releasing our debut single and a music video featuring Shmuel Vilozny, we’re out with the full album.

On September 18, we’ll celebrate with our first official live show — at Tzuker Hall, Tel Aviv Culture Center.