Tiras Sexual-Put Corn in the Ballot Box

Elections are in a month and a half and with the finalized lists campaigns are well underway. I personally wouldn't mind if the elections were held tomorrow-it already feels that my feed is overflowing with endless political debate. I'm not ready to discuss politics just yet but in the meantime here's Tiras Sexual's impressive campaign video. Is it sad that I kind of want them to be a real party?

It's election time and choosing is complicated
All the options stink and you're feeling a bit low
You don't know what to choose and who to believe
Bibi Buji Tzipi Flipper it all sounds like just sounds
Not real names of serious people
Not like Tal and Yaron those are names of kings
They'll bring to this country calm and security
They'll bring the peace they have the recipe
Take a few Arabs and put them in a pot
And add some Jews and increase the heat
Close the lid and wait in the corner
After 5 minutes return again
Ask the friends: has the hatred ended already?
And if someone doesn't agree go back to the corner
After 20 minutes open the lid
Look into the pot and there peace will be

Put corn in the ballot box
Put corn in the ballot box
Not a note! Put a real corn in the ballot boxes
If you choose in corn you won't be disappointed
We'll fix and change the laws
First thing marijuana boom it's already legal
Secondly apartments now cost as whistles
The gays can get married we'll also instill in them a uterus
Every homeless in the street will get a slice of bread
Everyone will be equal, irrespective of gender and color
We'll destroy the homes and live together in nature.

Put corn in the ballot box
Put corn in the ballot box
Not a note! Put a real corn in the ballot box

Nooooooooo
I don't think that if you put a real corn in the ballot box
We'll really get elected...no no
Nooooooo
I don't think we should put people inside a pot
It's not such a good idea to me
Nooooo
I have to say I don't really feel like
Living in nature with everyone...it's another not so great idea
Nooooo
Maybe it's better for you to choose someone else
Someone who understands something about politics

Amnon Fisher-Happy-ness

Finally, a warm and sunny Friday after two weekends of rain. Sometimes it's really all you need.



Happiness
Belongs to everyone
Honestly sings
Of love for mankind
What a person on earth
Works like an ant
What for?

Happiness exists for everyone
Honestly sings of love for the world
A man of peace is worth a smile
To aspire high
To stay low

Happiness-just moments
I'm happy most of the time-
And then sudddenly it's here
Happiness
Only moments

http://amnonfisher.bandcamp.com/releases

ISAIAH - SOLITUDE

Just listening to this song makes me think of Southern Tel Aviv. My first thought was gritty Florentin so after reading on ISAIAH's facebook page that their last album was recorded above Levinsky Market it all makes perfect sense. ISAIAH is Tomer Yeshayahu (of Habsora, which I've written about here), his partner Mika Avni who besides back up also wrote all of the songs, and Yogev Glusman and Amir Zeevi on drums and bass guitar. It feels like a small family project and it's a delight to hear the relaxed intimacy in their songs.

Solitude may one day turn romantic
So you rather be alone now
Open dusty window, it's enough
You don't go out cause you don't know how

Burn the hours down
Burn every minute
Every fraction of a second
Lose the sense of time
Ignore the seasons
There's no need to know what happens

The days are slowly piling up
The view is different but
You're stuck and
You don't ever leave your nest

Solitude may one day be inspiring
So you rather not to miss it
Planning how you'll leave it all behind
Because you don't know how to fix it

Simple life among the greening tress
You think that maybe it can heal you
Haunted by the thought, what if you find out
That the solitude comes with you?

The days are slowly piling up
The scenes keep changing but
You're stuck in
You don't ever leave your nest

Avishai Cohen-I Fall In Love Too Easily (Feat. Keren Ann, Gerald Clayton)

 

A very dark night indeed. I can only listen to this kind of music when it's raining, so with this week's stormy weather Avishai Cohen's latest album  "Dark Nights" finally caught my attention. This track is my favorite and closes the album beautifully with Gerald Clayton on the piano and Keren Ann on vocals. My heart aches for Paris. When I first heard the devastating news about the Charlie Hebdo shooting I thought of Keren Ann and the Jewish community in France, though basically anyone who wants to speak (or write, or draw) their mind is under threat. An impossible situation.

~Je suis Charlie~

Liron Amram & The Panthers-The Dawn

"Israel 2014/15 is a place where beliefs, religions and opposing views create an uneasy environment, and a tense creative space. But is it possible to take all of these components and use them as raw material for a new cultural statement?

Fortunately, there are those who can: As a negative to what is happening around us, the music of Liron Amram & the Panters can ignite the lost imagination even if only for a few minutes, to resonate a more beautiful and relaxed reality".

Taken from their facebook page, this passage captures the beauty and magic of Liron Amram & The Panthers. Much more than just really good music to dance to, their music can be seen as part of a refreshing Mizrahi revolution. In "Safart" Amram intoduces us to a song that his father, the great Yemenite singer Aharon Amram, wrote and adding his own twist he gives it the style and sound of 2015.

Happy New Year!
Oh, props to Michael Moshonov for directing such a cult-worthy video.

Dawn has already risen and I did not sleep at all
The memory of love is aging like wine
Wherever I go and wherever I look
It again returns to me and ignites my pains

And what if I'll see you again in the streets of the city
Will I kiss you or run will I touch you or turn pale

Only you I knew
And there is nowhere to return
And how you touched me then
It's difficult not to remember

Dawn has already risen and I did not sleep at all
The memory of love has sunk in a glass of wine
Wherever I go and wherever I look
The stars do not tell the future

And slowly I realized
You were never
What I was so looking for
And I will always ask

And what if I'll see you again in the streets of the city
Will I kiss you or run will I touch you or turn pale

Only you I knew
And there is nowhere to return
And how you touched me then
It's difficult not to remember

Aya Zahavi Feiglin-Hadera

Wow. This single sounds like what it is-a first single from Aya Zahavi Feiglin, lead singer of "I Got the Hotties" (sadly disbanded) but it's so much more than that. I can really sense I'm with her on the coastal highway, probably stuck in traffic, and I can really feel her mix of emotions ranging from boredom to frustration to wistfulness. I'm glad she took her time-it was worth the wait.

I have a real relationship
With the empty seat on the right side of the car
I have a relationship
Sometimes I rest my hand on him
If I close my eyes maybe he'll caress me too
If I'll close my eyes strong enough

You can't close your eyes
In the middle of the road

Hadera Tel Aviv Hertzeliya Hadera Tel Aviv Hertzeliya
Always the same roads
Always the same relationship

Dad tried to teach me quantum theory
I didn't understand much but I understood
That I have a chance to grow wings from my back and fly
I have the same chance
To die right here and now
In the middle of the coastal highway

You can't close your eyes
In the middle of the road

Hadera Tel Aviv Hertzeliya Hadera Tel Aviv Hertzeliya
Always the same roads
Always the same relationship

Kama Vardi-Summers in my Hometown

What a lovely song by the very talented Kama Vardi. So thoughtful and vulnerable. I love this stripped-down version but I'm curious to hear how it would sound in an album and what songs would follow and precede it. If you are too, feel free to head over to headstart and help out.

I am standing by your gate
My one true love
I'd like to know your heaven but I'd rather steal your hell
Am I too late, my one true love?
See-I've been sending ravens since I really can not tell

Now my garden's growing drier than the winters in your hometown
You call it love, but we both know what we know
You're reaching higher and my wings can only fly down
See-I do love you
But I can't come where you're going

Now I'm standing 'neath your window
My one true love
And I won't stop serenading 'till these shadows are all broken
And each and every raven will turn into a dove
No, I wouldn't close my eyes
Till the dawn and you are woke and I can see

My god I think it's drier at the bottom of the ocean
I know your thunder, but that rain sure's a surprise
No, I don't fear your love
But I won't take that potion
It feels like heaven but it sure isn't my life

And I think I know the way
My one true love
But I wouldn't go out roaming till these lovers are outspoken
To seek a treasure that I could never have
I pray and pray I wouldn't but we both know that I sure can
Till I see

My heart is growing lighter than the summers in my hometown
You call it love but we both know that we know
You're reaching higher but my wings can only fly down
See-I do love you but I can't come where you're going