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How to Be Shy

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Released
  
June 6, 2001

Length
  
38:10

Artist
  
Shy Nobleman

Label
  
Noble Tunes

Recorded
  
2001

How to Be Shy (2002)
  
Beautiful Life (2005)

Release date
  
6 June 2001

Producer
  
Shy Nobleman, Baruch Ben Yitzhak

Genres
  
Indie rock, Psychedelic pop

No more shy nobleman


How to Be Shy is the debut studio album by Israeli indie rock artist Shy Nobleman, released on June 6, 2001.

Contents

Nobleman's backing band on the record is Israeli psychedelic rock band Rockfour. The album was produced by Shy Nobleman himself, and Rockfour singer Baruch Ben Yitzhak.

The album became very successful in Israel and worldwide, becoming a Top 10 album in Israel and being named "One of the 10 best albums of 2001" by Rolling Stone magazine. Becoming an instant classic in the Israeli indie rock scene, the album brings musical influences from various genres such as psychedelic rock, psychedelic pop, blues, folk and 60's pop.

Two singles were released from the album: "Lonely Boy" and "Sad Song Happy Song".

Personnel

  • Shy Nobleman - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano
  • Baruch Ben Yitzhak - lead guitar, bass, backing vocals
  • Marc Lazare - bass, backing vocals
  • Noam Rapaport - keyboards
  • Issar Tennenbaum - drums, percussion
  • Additional personnel
  • Rob Whitmore - bass
  • Roy Hadas - bass
  • Kfir Kaper - brass instruments
  • Tom Lewis - brass instruments
  • Barak Ravid - brass instruments
  • Uri Baum - brass instruments
  • The Kaleidoscope Quintet - strings
  • Eli Lulai - backing vocals
  • Nan Wisse - backing vocals
  • Asaf Talmudi - string arrangement
  • Eran Sahar - string arrangement
  • Production
  • Shy Nobleman - production
  • Baruch Ben Yitzhak - production
  • Ronan Tal - engineering
  • Liam Watson - engineering
  • Gadi Pugatsch - engineering
  • Oren Ben Simon - cover art
  • Hadar Kaplan - cover art
  • Songs

    1No More4:06
    2Lonely Boy3:26
    3Power Pop Symphony4:06

    References

    How to Be Shy Wikipedia