Vini Vici’s Aviram Saharai: Playing to his own beat
Published in The Australian Jewish News
September 23, 2019
They have played before thousands at Tomorrowland, Ultra Music festivals in Miami and Europe and Electric Daisy Carnival. They have collaborated with massive names of the electronic dance music (EDM) scene; DJs Armin van Buuren, Steve Aoki and Timmy Trumpet. But when Aviram Saharai of the Israeli psytrance duo Vini Vici chats with The AJN while on tour in Brazil, he is just a familiar and friendly voice on the other end of the phone line.
“I’m so happy to do an interview for a Jewish newspaper!” he exclaims at the outset.
“We are Jewish. We are all a big happy family, right?”.
Despite the mega-success of Vini Vici, Aviram remains true to his humble beginnings in Afula, Israel. While he and his Vini Vici counterpart, Matan Kadosh, play an average of 200 shows around the world each year, Aviram dreams of his mother’s food back at home – “and a fresh plate of hummus when it is hot, which is just, heavenly”.