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In 2004, Michal and Amir first meet in a junk yard next to a rehearsal room in south Tel-Aviv. Michal, who came to Tel Aviv three years prior in order to realize her musical dreams, formed a band and, as the band's drummer, along came Amir who, three years previously, had returned to the music scene after a long break. The spark of love quickly ignited between Michal and Amir and, as a couple, they fronted a band named "The Riders" and mostly played garage and psychedelic. During that period, they wrote their first song together Dots, which was also published in the local venue - Bloom Bar compilation CD. After about a year and a half of activity, Michal and Amir decide to retire to quiet family life, to the intimate atmosphere needed for their musical creations. And so, at home beneath the sheets, dreamy creations that deal with themes such as childhood days, fairy tales, relationships, love, power, desires, dreams and hallucinations, all come to life. Windy & Destiny are born, Michal and Amir marry, and their first album "Words for Such a Riot" takes form. The soundtrack of their lives, which provides a rich source of inspiration, becomes for them a life necessity. W&D's music is characterized by Lo-Fi sound which at first was a result of constraints, not of philosophy, however eventually became an integral part of their music. At the forefront you will find warm, enchanted vocals that touch on reverbs and rich in nuances. The guitar sounds are rough and dirty and sometimes rich with effects, and the playing moves between strict freedom, through messy order and tight structure supported by changing rhythms from song to song, and arrangements that are, at once, both minimalist and rich . The overall atmosphere is psychedelic and somewhat drugged, bothersome and full of urges, rhythmic and relaxing, whimsical, a little shoegaze flavored, powerful and dark, bold, puritan, sexual, childish, total femme fatale and pornographic, simultaneously contradicting and contradicted. The tunes are catchy and remind one of a period of naivety, though somewhat out of its natural context, the tunes float freely and create their own private chaos. All 14 Words For Such A Riot songs, which together are about 60 minutes long, were written, played, recorded, mixed and digitally edited by W&D work that took place over a period of about two years during 2006-2007. The album was recorded entirely in their apartment in Tel-Aviv in their minimalist and mostly improvised home studio. In July 2007 their first child was born, a daughter Liri, about two months before the launch of their first album.