She grew up in Caesarea from the age of six and studied composition at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Through her childhood and while growing up she explored different instruments and studied different styles of music. She was a part of different groups and ensembles as a vocalist, keyboardist and percussionist. She served as a military musician during her conscription in the Israeli Defence Forces.
Career
In 2011 she worked on a jazz album, which she almost finished and decided to scrap and move to writing and producing electronic music. On stage, Erez performs as a three-piece-band with Noga, Ori Rousso and Jacobovitz Ran. In 2017, she was included in Forbes Israel's "Under 30" list. Her first single, "Toy" received a rave review from The New York Times: “the Israeli singer and electronic-music producer Noga Erez gives ‘Toy’ a beat that jitters and heaves, ratchets across the stereo field, speeds up fitfully and stops for a moment of dead silence halfway through the song; the melodies are brief modal phrases hinting at Middle Eastern origins... It's a sparse, thorny, unstable track — and haunting, too.” She produced her first record "Off The Radar", which was released 2 June 2017 via City Slang, with her partner Ori Rousso. This release was followed by festival shows at Primavera, SXSW, Pitchfork Paris, Roskilde, MELT! Visions Festival, Convergence and Great Escape in 2017. She also toured the UK and Europe in 2017.
Influences
Erez' musical style draws influences from Alternative, Electronic and sample-based Hip Hop, but is also strongly influenced by political circumstances both in her country and globally, although she has been reticent to describe her work as political. In an interview with the Guardian, Erez describes her songs as her way to “process the issues that bother me about the world”. Erez's music features styles such as Electro, Alternative, Rhythm and Blues, Hip Hop or Pop and references her musical influences such as Flying Lotus, Björk, Frank Ocean or Kendrick Lamar. With a mix of drum computers, synthesizers and vocals she describes the chaos in the environment she grew up with through bass-heavy and danceable tunes.
