Green and true blue - By Dan Williams and Elie Eidelman (Jerusalem Post)
In 1995 the LA-4 recording label was created to encourage innovative and noncommercial original music. Stains of Time and Blueband, two new LA-4 albums make for very different listening experiences. [we skip the critic regarding Eyal Kaufman's album 'Stains of Time']

... Blueband is highly enjoyable. Blueband is already working on a jaunty rock collection as its second release, but this debut album has an easy-listening sound that is unusual and memorable. The Album insert gives the lyrics in prose chunks, and the music at first seems similarly formless. but there is an impressive technique at work. Singer-songwriter David Peretz's quiet but intense and engaging vocals dominate the tracks. Elad Shofan's synth support including complex sampling and unobtrusive percussion - is richly evocative. moody stile. Blueband is being touted for its Beersheba origins and the "Negev" quality that characterizes its music. Indeed there is something of a desert reverie to Blueband, but the distinction goes further, as the album is happily devoid of the dance-track electronica to be heard in many of the recent Tel Aviv mainstream releases. Blueband is very reminiscent of Eric Serra's excellent soundtrack to the Big Blue. Both albums share a sea theme, expressed for example, in the ocean-blue cover designs and the whalesong, seagull and surf sample played into the song backgrounds. Track eight of Blueband "The Song's Creator" goes further by putting words to the motif : "In the end we disappear./ Take a deep breath and slowly slowly dive./ Into the big blue, into the quiet currents./ To the place where memories become waves." All the album's lyrics are similarly gorgeous and layered, requiring repeated listening to be fully appreciated. This is another reason why Blueband can and should be enjoyed again and again- preferably alone and by candlelight.