Yoav - Beautiful Lie

Imagine an album that matches the leftfield edge of Beck or Radiohead with the kind of sure-footed pop hooks often associated with Justin Timberlake; an album built around a voice that's as sweetly expressive as it is richly soulful. Then imagine that every single sound of it, including the bass and the drums, is performed by one man on his amazingly versatile guitar. That record is 'Charmed & Strange'. And the man? Yoav.

Growing up amidst the cultural boycott of apartheid-era South Africa with an architect father and an opera singer mother who allowed only classical music and opera in the family home, Yoav only managed to access modern music by sneaking to a neighbour's house. By the age of 12, Yoav was waiting until his parents had gone to bed before practicing on a battered guitar given to him by his brother.

As he hit his teenage years, Yoav continued to consume music with an insatiable hunger, always pushing at the boundaries his parents had set. Beginning with the relatively safe sounds of Simon & Garfunkel and the Beatles, he then moved onto the dark pop music of U2, Depeche Mode and The Cure and later through phases of devouring hip hop, grunge and electronic music.
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