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Cover art of *Beat Heaven* (2015), Beno Hendler's second solo electronic album on Raw Tapes. No CC-licensed or public-domain photograph of Hendler could be found; this cover is used as the only available image connected to him, per the site's disclosed album-cover fallback convention. Saved locally as `portrait.jpg`. Album cover art (not a CC-licensed artist photo). This is an honestly disclosed editorial stand-in, not a free-licensed image. — Retrieved from his own Bandcamp page, https://beno.bandcamp.com/album/beat-heaven, image asset hosted at https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0346577792_10.jpg.
Beno Hendler started bass at fifteen in a band called Excalibur, and at twenty-two, while studying at the Rimon School of Music, co-founded the jazz-rock band Farwa Hama with Lior Frankel. From there he built one of the busiest session and production careers in Israeli popular music: touring and recording bassist for Avi Toldano, the rap act Fishy HaGadol, Mooki, Pioneers of Space, David Broza, and Tomer Yosef, with whom he co-released the 2009 album Trampoline; house bassist and co-producer for Barry Sakharof from 2004; bass on Balkan Beat Box's 2007 hit "Hermetico"; producer and mixer for Los Caparos across two albums; and later work with HaMoshava, Ehud Banai tribute projects, Shai Tsabari's 2015 debut Shacharit, and Shuli Rand.
He joined the beat-jazz trio Buttering Trio — founded in Berlin by producer Rejoicer (Yuval Havkin) and vocalist/saxophonist KerenDun — as its bassist, reconvening with the group in Tel Aviv; sources differ on whether this was 2012 or 2013. The trio, signed to the Tel Aviv label Raw Tapes, released Toast (2013), Jam (2014), Threesome (2016) and Foursome (2022, with drummer Amir Bresler joining the lineup), touring the UK, Germany, France and India. In 2015 Hendler co-founded the twelve-member beat collective LBT (Live Beat Tapes) alongside KerenDun, Rejoicer, Amir Bresler, Yonatan Albalak and others, producing their debut compilation The Singles; he also co-produced a 2010 Meir Ariel tribute album with Eyal Talmudi. He has released two solo electronic albums on Raw Tapes, Game Over (2012) and Beat Heaven (2015).
Hendler's career runs substantially wider than jazz — the bulk of his documented work is as a session bassist and producer across Israeli pop, hip-hop and world-beat acts. His jazz-adjacent credentials sit specifically in the Raw Tapes/beat-jazz scene, most concretely through Buttering Trio and the LBT collective, both of which share personnel and a production sensibility with other Raw Tapes/Time Grove-affiliated artists already documented on this site.
Verified against the live Discogs API and Wikidata. Discogs artist ID 3075686 ("Beno Hendler"); an older entry, ID 621061 ("Ben Handler"), is confirmed by Discogs' own alias data to be the same person, not a separate artist.
| Year | Title | Label | Catalog | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Party Bear (EP) | Raw Tapes | RT13 | Predates Hendler's confirmed join — see notes.md for the 2012/2013 discrepancy. |
| 2012 | Tired Love (single) | Raw Tapes | — | Hendler's first confirmed Discogs "Appearance" credit with the group. |
| 2013 | Toast | Raw Tapes | RT202 | LP. |
| 2014 | Jam | Raw Tapes | — | Promo CD. |
| 2016 | Threesome (remixed edition 2018) | Raw Tapes | — | |
| 2022 | Foursome | Raw Tapes | LP-RAW-0089 | Drummer Amir Bresler joins the lineup. |
| Year | Title | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Game Over | Raw Tapes | Electronic solo album. |
| 2015 | Beat Heaven | Raw Tapes | Electronic solo album. |
| Year | Credit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Trampoline (Tomer Yosef) | Co-released album, Hi-Fidelity. |
| 2017 | Afro Golden Line (Amir Bresler) | Raw Tapes; bass, alongside Yonatan Albalak on guitar, on the track "Fish." |
| 2017 | Brownswood Bubblers Twelve (Various) | Brownswood Recordings; appearance. |
| 2023 | Puzzles Vol. 5 (Various) | Raw Tapes; production/appearance. |
| — | Numerous session/production credits 1997-2019 | Avi Toldano, Fishy HaGadol, Mooki, Pioneers of Space, David Broza, Barry Sakharof, Kashi, Shachar Swissa, Los Caparos, HaMoshava, Ehud Banai tribute projects, Shai Tsabari, Shuli Rand — per his Hebrew Wikipedia discography, not individually itemized here. |