Monday, October 17, 2022

Gon Ben Ari and Zulat Choir - Israel


Well, after an unexpectedly long hiatus, I'm back for one last post. I've had a lot of fun keeping this up over the past 12(!) years and forcing myself to discover new music beyond the playlist hits, while along the way interacting with lovely people from across the globe. I might eventually decide to take a closer look at the musical gems from the past decade once more time has passed, or to dig deeper into tunes from other periods, as I have occasionally done, but for now, I'll leave you with Gon Ben Ari and Zulat Choir, taken from the stellar album 'Yesh'.


Between the evenings in high school
In the suburb which you've already repressed
Making muscles against the madness
In the toke gym
Drunken light from Babylon
Lit in the street at night
An endless hole in the phone
Scroll down, down, down

How many signals can I give you
Until you will finally look
How the river overflows the rock
Every button turns on miracles
And was there water
When you entered up to the knees
They didn't open in front of you
For you to come in

Israel
They reinvent you every night
Who in the chill, who in the bumps of the road
Israel
A voice that has no body or mouth still prays
Through Arsim chanting at school:

"Here not here here here
Here not here here here
Here not here
Here not here here here"
Together

How many operations will we carry out
So that the border of "who am I"
Will feel stable enough for a moment
And for a moment, you'll breathe

I know, you love
But let's try tonight
To not talk about anything 
Except for the future

Israel
They reinvent you every night
Who in the shade, who in the sun's indulgence
Israel
A voice that escaped from a synagogue is still splitting
In the football crowd

"Here not here here here
Here not here here here
Here not here
Here not here here here
Here not here here here"
Together

Here comes the night
And from here you don't see
And you can't know
One can only believe
Me