LennyTunes · Biography
Updated 19 October 2026


ONE LINE

Jaffa-rooted, high-fidelity music spanning organic house, cinematic
electronica, belly-dance and global instrumental forms, shaped by live
instruments, Middle Eastern maqam, North African rhythm and analog
studio craft.


SHORT

LennyTunes is the artist project of Jaffa-based composer, producer and
multi-instrumentalist Lenny Ben Basat. His high-fidelity, live-driven
music moves between organic house, downtempo, cinematic electronica,
belly-dance and global instrumental forms, shaped by Middle Eastern
maqam, North African rhythm, regional instruments and analog studio
craft. Behind the project is more than 30 years of international work
across records, live performance and screen music.


LONG

Lenny Ben Basat, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, has spent
more than 30 years in studios and on stage, most of them making records
for other people. LennyTunes is where he makes his own.

Raised on Kibbutz Hatzor, Lenny began as a drummer, studied jazz in high
school and took his first professional studio job at eighteen. From
there, his work moved through bands, recording studios and stages.

His production credits include co-producing Avishai Cohen’s
gold-certified “Sensitive Hours” and producing “Two Roses” with Avishai
Cohen and Lars Nilsson, recorded with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
For “Le Sens de la fête,” directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano,
he worked with Avishai Cohen on recording, production and mixing. He
composed the original score for the Ophir Award-nominated short film
“Dina Malul Osa Milchama.” The melody he co-wrote for Riff Cohen’s “Dans
mon quartier” was later adapted as Simge’s “Miş Miş,” which spent four
weeks at number one on Türkçe Top 20.

The LennyTunes catalog began in 2019 with The Bellydance Superstars, a
lo-fi tribute to the live belly-dance clubs of Jaffa in the 1960s and
70s. Since then it has moved through ambient music, Arabic pop, the
musical traditions of the region and a series of live-driven electronic
releases. Fine Sands passed a million streams, “Mahabula” from Jericho
appeared on Buddha-Bar XXVIII, and Jaffa Cakes (2026) took the sound
deeper into club territory.

Working from his studio in old Jaffa, Lenny approaches musical
traditions as living languages that shape the composition, not as color
added at the end. The same principle connects his own catalog, his
production work and his music for film.


SELECTED CREDITS

Sensitive Hours · Avishai Cohen · gold-certified album · co-producer
Two Roses · Avishai Cohen & Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra · produced
with Avishai Cohen and Lars Nilsson
Dina Malul Osa Milchama · Ophir Award-nominated short film · original
score
Le Sens de la fête · Directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano ·
recording, production and mixing with Avishai Cohen
Miş Miş · Simge · four weeks at number one on Türkçe Top 20 ·
co-composer


PHOTOGRAPHY CREDIT

Photography: Tal Bedrack, Maya Tel Avivi Dar.
Additional photography: LennyTunes.


CONTACT

lenny@lennytunes.com
lennytunes.com