Aperco - Loving You

Nostalgia overload, yet so, so good. Just what I needed to hear today.

Voice is running in my head
You never tried to understand
Thoughts of crying in the rain
I wish that I could feel the pain

You can say I told you so
I guess I've heard it all before
Don't you leave me all alone
I can't make it on my own
So all I have to do you
Loving you

Who is right and who is wrong
We keep on fighting all along
Yes it happens every day
I know I'll have to find a way

https://aperco1.bandcamp.com/

Oded - Morning Grace

♥

Got to be someone else
Someone else
Got to be your morning man
In a vase - underneath your bed

Give me the power to be your friend
For I'm lost in my own head

Oh, I love you so bad

Got to be someone else
Someone else
Got to be your flowers man
In a vase - underneath your bed

Give me the power to be your friend
For I'm lost in my own head

Oh, I love you so bad

https://odedmusic.bandcamp.com/

anna RF - One Day

From their FB: anna RF is an Electro - Ethnic - Reggae group.
The phrase anna RF is an Arabic-Hebrew expression which has a double meaning-"I know" and "I don't know", that is the concept behind the band.
anna RF was formed in a tiny desert village called "Shaharut".
The band creates music that combines the beauty of different cultures and brings people together in a joyful celebration of unity. The group's sound is a mix between east & west, blending ancient and modern instruments with a live-electronic touch. The message of the songs is one of happiness and freedom.
anna RF is also about visual art and collaborations. They are traveling across the globe creating music and videos with local artists in authentic settings using a portable studio.

Band members:
Roy Smila - A background of eastern music, plays a variety of instruments such as: Kamancha (Persian violin), Lafta, & Saz-bush (Turkish instruments).
Ofir J. Rock - A background of rock music & music production, plays the guitar, didgeridoo, flutes & vocals.
Or Raveh (Dubtazer) - Electronic music producer, plays bass guitar and live electronics.

I chose this song because it's one of my favorite videos from the latest batch of IndieCity clips but after hearing it again I realized how fitting it is with this week's big news of Lucy Aharish and Tsahi Halevi's surprise wedding after secretly dating for 4 years. It's clear why they kept their relationship a secret, and why all the journalists who knew about it respected their decision. I'm especially infuriated with all the comments from people worried about their future children. Hopefully one day things will be different.

I don't remember where but I go on
I left it all behind, I left alone
It was too much for me, can't call it home
I choose to change the rules, I choose to roam
I wanna fix the mess but I go on
Far from everything I left alone
I didn't want this life, can't call it home
I had to run away, I choose to roam

Papa was a roller he left us all alone
In a stroller mama carry crying all day long
He go gamble, stumble, drinking and smoke
Baby tremble and weep but growing up strong
One day gonna come
One day gonna fly
One day I believe
That I soar above the sky

Matti Caspi - She

In loving memory of the great Charles Aznavour.

Original lyrics:

She may be the face I can't forget
A trace of pleasure or regret
May be my treasure or
The price I have to pay

She may be the song that summer sings
May be the chill that autumn brings
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day

She may be the beauty or the beast
May be the famine or the feast
May turn each day into a heaven
Or a hell

She may be the mirror of my dream
A smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem
Inside her shell

She who always seems so happy in a crowd
Whose eyes can be so private and proud
No one's allowed to see them
When they cry

She may be the love that cannot hope to last
May come to me from shadows of the past
That I remember
'Till the day I die

She may be the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I'm alive
The one I'll care for
Through the rough and rainy years

Me, I'll take her laughter and her tears
And make them all my souvenirs
For where she goes I've got to be
The meaning of my life is she

She, she

The White Screen - Death To Techno

Wow.

The children are no longer moving
On the dance floor
What are they afraid of?
They tell me - death to techno

The pills are no longer helping
The nightmares only intensify
This disease is called
Death to techno

Death to techno, death to techno, death to techno

All my muscles are sore
The gums are bleeding
I don't know what to do anymore
De de de death to techno

Death to techno, death to techno, death to techno

https://thewhitescreen.bandcamp.com/

Bell Always - In Blue Sky

♥

Once,
in blue sky
I've met you:
A stranger in blue sky

Once,
in starlight
I've seen you:
A stranger in starlight

You know, you're forever in my head
You know, you're forever in my head

Once,
in the flames
you loved me
Deep down, deep down
you loved me
Deep down

You know, you're forever in my head
You know, you're forever in my head

https://bellalways.bandcamp.com/

Digital_Me - Embers

Digital_Me was 10 years old when the Oslo accords were signed. This weekend's newspapers are filled with in-depth analysis marking 25 years since the signing but I found this song to be more illuminating than anything I've read so far.

If you were also born in 1983, area code 03
So maybe you also have something screwed up in your head
Say, two years before Wu Tang's first release
I'd walk around with a cardboard box wrapped in Zbeng comics
A kid walking around with a gas mask and an atropine syringe
In case a Scud missile with nerve gas will fall in the neighborhood
Because if I'm a rough Tel Avivian bringing up memories on compressed samples
It would be classic to begin with a memory of a little brother in a Bardas gas mask
But from the sealed room I remember no more than a few moments
Which is nothing compared to the list "the ten most influential terror attacks"
On the day of one of the first, I don't remember exactly when
I planned to go with Adam to play at Saturn
Near Dizengoff Square, in the days when in the spinning cake there was fire
I'm not sure if it was 94 or 96
It could be that I was already used to the sound of the ambulance siren
In the news breaks Tel Aviv is filled with ZAKA
I wasn't shocked it simply seemed ordinary to me
What's the big difference between an exploding bus and a missile?
As if in Tel Aviv people are dancing on embers, it's part of the experience
If you'll dance fast enough you might not get burnt

A few months after I started seventh grade
They changed the name of the high school and now it's named after Yitzhak Rabin
Everything felt random-whether I'll do good at school
Or if I'll be able to make it alive to Dizengoff Center
I tried to make sense of things, to crack the system
To come to terms with all the shit I have no control over
And why should I? After all, I'm part of a persecuted nation
In every generation a madman gets up
This is what I learned, from the view of the third generation
Now add to that everything I personally experienced
Say, take the period between 9 days and the age of 20
I knew someone who was murdered in a terrorist attack and a child who died in a car accident
Three committed suicide and the list goes on
Not dealing with it is a type of escape
After all it's affected who I am, how I understand life
I can deliver it to you in a metaphor if that will help you understand

I hang the laundry and grab it with clips
Perceptions of morality, politics, Jews, Arabs
Thoughts on religion, national and personal identity
33 years of conclusions, my closet is full of shit
Stereotypes mix with experience, stories make spots in my memory
Dreams, experiences...you understand the idea
I dry, fold, put in the closet and forget
A pick a bit of everything in the morning before I take a shower

Sometimes I'll put in an effort, sometimes I feel that there's no reason to bother
I don't care about being fashionable, I care about being comfortable
Being positive, keeping the beat without getting burnt
Trying to find the fun in it, I dance barefoot on embers.