Elital Rychter – Next Time You Break My Heart (2023)
Initially finding her “voice within the choir”, singer-songwriter Elital Rychter stirred a passion for music with the first note sung. At age 12, she started playing the piano and at age 13 she picked up a guitar; from there, her musical endeavours took her from the choir to international critical acclaim as an original artist. From vibrant local festivals to sessions in tiny bars, Rychter nurtured her musicality with a confident stage presence oozing intimate, engaging melodies. As the years progressed, Rychter continued her academic career achieving a Bachelor of Arts in Hebrew Linguistics, and a master’s degree in EU Studies, but her love for music never wavered. Skip ahead to 2023 and Rychter released her debut single ‘Next Time You Break My Heart’.
Blending her love of psychology and music, Israel-based Rychter combines the emotional depth of sound with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s psychological understanding of grief. According to Kübler-Ross, there are five stages of grieving including denial, anger, bargaining, depression and, ultimately, acceptance. In ‘Next Time You Break My Heart’, Rychter profoundly tackles the heartbreaking, painful vulnerability from denial to bargaining in this poignant ballad.
While ‘Next Time You Break My Heart’ has a simplistic, almost bare-bones soundscape, the piano-driven track is kaleidoscopic in its heart-rendering arrangement. Opening with Rychter’s steady piano and enticing vocals, one assumes this to be a basic ballad; however, the incorporation of cello, violin and bass add a symphonic quality to ‘Next Time You Break My Heart’.
Interestingly, each instrument has prominence with Shira Pinkerfeld’s cello lying against Shira Zemach’s violin, Dekel Tuvia’s bass, and Rychter’s piano – then again, just as there is individual definition to the various elements, they are harmonically woven into a soul-chilling tune. Perhaps similar to the movement from denial to bargaining to anger? Each stage has distinctive features, but it all comes together in a single breast of grief.
Sincere, sentimental and thought-provoking, Rychter elegantly explores human fragility and delicacy in her melodic ‘Next Time You Break My Heart’.
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This artist was discovered via Musosoup #sustainablecurator
