Men of North Country
OriginTel-Aviv, Israel
GenresNorthern Soul
Mod
Indie
Soul
Soul pop
Years active2008–present
LabelsAcid Jazz Records
MembersYashiv Cohen
Boaz Wolf
Nitzan Horesh
Doron Farhi
Ido Kretchmer
Sefi Sizzling
Ongy Sizzling

Men of North Country (MONC) are an indie-soul band from Tel Aviv, signed to Acid Jazz Records. The band formed in 2008 and comprise lead singer Yashiv Cohen, drummer/producer Boaz Wolf, guitarist Nitzan Horesh, bassist Doron Farhi and a three-piece brass section comprising Ido Kretchmer (trombone) and siblings Sefi Sizzling (trumpet) and Ongy Sizzling (saxophone). Men of North Country currently have one studio album released on Acid Jazz Records called “The North”.


Biography

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MONC came about when soul DJ Yashiv Cohen (vocals) was overheard singing along with the tunes he was playing at one of his TASC (Tel Aviv Soul Club) parties. A suggestion was thrown out. He took it to his friends from the rock’n’roll band Electra – Nitzan Horesh (guitars), Doron Farhi (bass) and Boaz Wolf (drums, keys) – and then to the Sizzling Horns of Sefi Sizzling (of Funk'n'stein and The Ramirez Brothers, trumpet), his protégé baby brother Ongy Sizzling (of Coolooloosh, sax) and Israel's Supreme Court legal clerk - Advocat Ido Kretchmer (trombone), and they all joined to form the band.

As Cohen and the sizzlings were born and raised in the north of Israel and all are Northern soul fanatic, it was only natural to name it Men of North Country.

In 2010 MONC signed with Acid Jazz Records, who put out their debut 7" - the double A-side single "Man of North Country/Debut”[1]. The single garnered positive reviews[2] and was met with excitement all over Europe's mod and soul scene. The second single, a cover version of The Human League's "Mirror Man", which was released in May 2012, was a taster from their long awaited debut album, “The North” (Produced and recorded by Wolf), that followed in June 2012[3].


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