Matti Caspi - You Are My Woman (Phonokol 2005)

“You Are My Woman” is Caspi’s first album in seven years, which is entirely consisted of new material.
Musically, the album is in a way, a return to Caspi’s beginning in the mid 70’s, with a special emphasis on rich, and mostly acoustic and classical arrangements.
In Caspi’s opinion, this is the best album he’s ever created in all his broad career. Alongside the captivating melodies, there is a fine rampart of lyricists that includes Ehud Manor (RIP), Yossi Bannai and Yaankale Rothblit, which completes the melodic beauty into the creation of touching songs.

From the press:

“…Take the album “You Are My Woman” of Matti Caspi which came out a year ago, and give it the “best string instruments sound” award in recent years. A wonderful professionalism that leaves room for a lot of emotion”. (Amir Amramy, Nana Culture and Entertainment)

“You Are My Woman” is a beautiful, very romantic album, which the level of arrangements and lyrics in it is rare in the Israeli scenery. Caspi pays heed to every note and sound, playing and singing alike - and the result is respected and impressive”. (Geva Kra Oz, Ynet Music)

“…Now Caspi has a new album, “You Are My Woman” and in it, next to “The Peace” (a renewal of himself from a broadcast record which was released in 1978), and two interpretations of old love songs (“I Love You” which used to be “Something Stupid” by Frank and Nancy Sinatra, and “She” by Charles Aznavour), there are eight new songs in which Caspi proves yet again that he hasn’t lost any of his talent of creating magical and captivating melodies. He resembles a little bit Sasha Argov, Stevie Wonder, and mostly good old Matti Caspi. He mostly sings amazing, in a voice that is an instrument full of emotion and warmth. Indeed, “You Are My Woman” (lyrics by Ehud Manor and Matti Caspi), “Song of the Three Gestures” (lyrics by Yaankale Rothblit), or “Rhymes of Love” (lyrics by Matti Caspi), could’ve also been recorded twenty years ago. They don’t sound like what’s happening today in modern music, but that’s exactly what makes this album a classic”. (Yoav Kutner, Globes)

“Ehud Manor (RIP) would give Matti a high score for this text: ‘and the day in all its might/ arouses a memory that was trapped/ on the edge of the glance of your eyes/ your smile is secret and stimulating/ spread like a net/ on my bursting body/ captured in a storm’. Wow, Caspi. That’s not lyricism. That’s the best kind of poetry. A minor piano playing leads Caspi to one of his most beautiful melodies. What he knows, he didn’t forget… “Rhymes of Love” reminds his emotional ballades style, one of those fine love songs he’s written with Ehud Manor. Matti fills the absence of Manor - in the sense of love songs - on a level that sure surprised me. Ultimate melodies? Skip to “Song Number Six”. It’s the minor lyrical composition, the quiet and stroking one, that isn’t affected by the sands of time, but glides on a timeless dimension. And again, the way Matti writes a love melody - simple, not patronizing. A beauty. “The Song of Three Gestures”, a song about lost dreams and the delusions of fate “In the shadow of the tree where I once sat”, one of Yaakov Rothblit’s brilliant lyrics, was granted a fast rhythm from Caspi. It’s a song you need to hear twice and pay attention to the lyrics. In “You Are My Woman”, his first album in seven years, there’s a versatile Caspi, a reopened musician, more professional than ever. Yet it’s still Caspi the great composer and arranger, who continues to excite me”. (Yossi Harsonsky)