* "When was the last time you went to see any live Israeli group and you felt like a Semi-trailer has crashed into you?" ("mako.co.il" - Zachi Biran) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * "two-piece from Israel whose sole intent is to make a hell of a racket...It helped that the skin basher is a born-again drumming lunatic, full of tricks and angles (such as balancing one-legged on his stool) and the doe-eyed harpy who thrashes her guitar as if it was a ragdoll threw a lot of interesting musical shapes. This was live music at its best, creative, fun, of the moment, allowing the audience to suspend disbelief… It was fantastic" ("incendiarymag.com" Richard Foster) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * "In countries that have Rock'n'Roll flowing in their blood circulation, Tamar Aphek would star on magazine covers long time ago. Yesterday she stood on the stage.. looking and sounding like a guitar hero coming into being" ("Ha-Aretz", Ben shalev) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * "On the drums, one of the busiest virtuosos bashers… you have to catch them live to believe (or not to believe) what this guy can do with a pair of sticks" (Israel 'Ha'aretz' -Amir Shilo) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * ""Aphek has a guitar sound that many guitar players in Israel would die for, Schehter is one of the best drummers in Israel, If not the best" ("hasharat.co.il" - Omri Greenberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * "Tamar induces a feeling of a diva from hell, authoritative and enchanting talented writer" ("walla.co.il"- Einav shif) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * "Courtesy of some massive drumming that locks itself super-tight… sudden chaotic moments of blast-beat drumming" ("TheMag.uk"- Steve) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * "With a Guitarist/Performer as freezing as Tamar Aphek, that needs a much bigger stage than that." (''walla.co.il' - Sharon Arieli) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * "A drummer from hell…I swear, there was a third hand…" (Tel Aviv 'City mouse' - Michael Rorberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * "He who never saw a mischievous girl singing and sliding her fingers up on the neck of a telecaster, wouldn't ever understand the story." ('106fm.co.il' - Sa'ar Gamzo) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * "Shechter still pounds away on the skins like a deranged savage" ('progressiveworld.net' - Marcelo Silveyra) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Biography: Formed in late 2007, Tel-Aviv’s heavy rock duo ‘Carusella’ is the musical project of guitarist and singer Tamar Aphek and drummer and singer Guy Shechter. Carusella is the culmination of years of writing and playing songs in other renowned bands in the Israeli alternative scene. In late 2008 Carusella independently released a debut album which gained massive recognition from the Israeli and European media. In their two years activety, the band toured massively in Europe and the US managing to play over 200 shows. Have taken part in respected festivals such as 'SXSW'/Austin,TX; 'Mission Creek Festival'/Iowa City, IA; 'Fusion festival'/Lars Field, DE; 'DUNAjam'/Sardinia, IT, and shared stage with bands such as 'Editors', 'Deerhoof', 'Torche', 'Kykesa' and many more. In using only guitar and drums, they stretched boundaries in their writing to deliver a fresh kind of genuine hardcore. Heavy and aggressive yet arranged almost poppy and catchy at the same time. Carusella's show is placed in the center of the room, closely sharing their tensed chemistry and explosive charged energies with the crowd. They are literally the meaning of “Boy-Girl”, “Super Loud”, and “Two Are Enough".