Real name: Duvdevan

Yoav Kutner about the band: "In early 1980, they performed mainly in joint shows with the Gan Eden band and with Shlomo Mizrahi and the electric stage, and even recorded one instrumental piece as a single for the radio program "Good things with Shamira Imber". The piece, "Ben Gurion Airport", was the only one of the band released on CD, 16 years later (in "Yesterday's" - the songs of the 1980s of "Hataklit Haifa" CD collection). Duvdevan was active for a very short time (even if you add together all the different periods in which different incarnations of the group appeared) and left behind very little documentation. Nevertheless, Duvdevan is Remembered by different rock fans as one of the interesting attempts made here in the 80s..."

Short History:
Duvdevan (Cherry) was founded in 1980 in Jerusalem. There is no connection between the name of the band and the special unit that was established in the IDF in 1986; on the contrary: "Cherry" was actually a slang term for a certain type of hashish. The band Duvdevan was a progressive cruiser: it played progressive rock with strong jazz-rock influences European. Danny Tibrin's electric violin, which is slightly reminiscent of the combined work of Jean-Luc Ponty, Eddie Jobson and Mr. Didier Lockwood in the seventies, is a stage attraction to this day.

The band attracted a large crowd in Jerusalem in 1979-1981. Duvdevan performed mainly in small Jerusalem clubs such as "Hapargod", but also had the opportunity to perform in front of large audiences, in open places; Duvdevan's performances at the Saker Garden, the Hebrew University campus and Beit Ha'am received warm responses from a young, student audience, who danced to the partly instrumental music. The band also performed in the "Youth City" at the exhibition grounds, and received good responses there as well. they also recorded the opening melody for the Kol Israel radio show, "Good things" for Shamira Imber.

Duvdevan disbanded a short time later, reunited with a different line-up for several performances, and finally disappeared from the stage. Felty and Hollen went to study music in the United States, and Tibrin immigrated to Canada. Unfortunately, Duvdevan didn't have enough time to release a full studio album in real-time, even though several CDs of some songs were released. The commercial potential of a band specializing in instrumental music was particularly small in the 80s when producing an album was an expensive business. What remains in the memory mainly is the instrumental piece "Ben Gurion Airport" which was published as part of a compilation album by the record company "Hataklit Haifa".

The driving force behind Duvdevan was Yves Toati, a keyboardist who immigrated to Israel from France in the mid-1970s. Tuati died in Paris in October 2009, at the age of 58. The band initially performed with other Jerusalem bands, such as the Gan-Eden Band or Shlomo Mizrahi, and the electric stage. Here and there Duvdevan appeared with Gerry Eckstein and the Stav Band. Duvdevan's fusion between rock, jazz, and of course progressive rock remains a rare phenomenon in Israel.

Duvdevan 's album
Duvdevan's album In the 2000s, the group met and managed to record most of Duvdevan's compositions for a first studio album. Arnon Pelti managed the project with great effort and invested time and resources to get the album recorded, and produced. The project lasted longer than expected, not only because of financial problems but also due to the health problems of two members of the band, who participated in the recording of the album but could not perform. Today, only three of the five original band members remain in the lineup and are able to perform on stage.

After several years in which the release of the finished album was repeatedly delayed, Pelti brought the project to an end: in 2009, Duvdevan managed to publish the album and launch it in a festive concert, on October 19, 2009, at the Tmuna Theater in Tel Aviv. Uri Weinstock and Asael Ben-Zaroya replaced Tuati (deceased) and Tubnhaus on stage.

The show was broadcast live on Reshet Gimel. On the day of the show, the Duvdevan band appeared on Assaf Kaplan's 'Shaharzada' radio show, on the Campus Voice radio in Tel Aviv (106FM, Monday, 12:00). A day after the exciting show, Yves Tuati died in Paris. He managed to listen to the show live on the Internet and said it was one of the happiest moments of his life.

A clip of the segment Ben Gurion Airport appeared on the Israeli site Ynet, alongside a short interview with drummer Roni Holen, who said, among other things, "It is indeed late, but we are happy that the music of 'Duvdevan' was recorded by the original musicians...it is not just a reunion. We also want to work further"
Another clip appeared in Walla! News, called "Rock the Government"; Arnon Pelti's daughter, May, participated in the renewed song, with background vocals.
A small piece of trivia appears in the Walla! News article: Tamira Yardani managed Duvdevan band for a short time. Pelti is interviewed about the disc in the article, saying among other things: "We had to close a circle and not leave things open... It was also a good opportunity to do it, even though it took a few years after we started already in 2002."

The guitarist of 'Duvdevan', Eyal Tobenhus, died a few years ago from ALS disease.
Danny Tibrin passed away in April 2020 from a serious illness.

Members of the original band (Jerusalem, 1979)

Yves Tuati (deceased) - keyboards and singing
Arnon Pelti - bass
Danny Tibrin (deceased) - violin
Eyal Tubenhouz (deceased) - guitars
Ronnie Hollen - drums

New Band Members (2009)
Arnon Pelti - bass
Ronnie Hollen - drums
Uri Weinstock - keyboards
Asael Ben-Zaroya - guitar