The Joni Mitchell Project-Woodstock

This is such a beautiful interpretation of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock", sung by Noa Briro and Tamar Capsouto with Lior Secker and Ori Beanstock on guitars. There's something quite magical in the air.

I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, where are you going
And this he told me
I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm
I'm going to join in a rock n' roll band
I'm going to camp out on the land
I'm going to try an' get my soul free
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

Then can I walk beside you
I have come here to lose the smog
And I feel to be a cog in something turning
Well maybe it's just the time of year
Or maybe it's the time of man
I don't know who I am
But you know life is for learning
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

Photomat-Big Eyes

So lush. I love everything about this song/video/band.

You close the door behind you
Lock twice
So they won't hear the shouts
I'm already drunk and not from wine
Only from your eyes
Big eyes

"Just plain brown" you say
"Everyone has them
They have exactly like them
 I wish I were special,
Do you think I'm special?"
She takes another sip

You show your teeth
Before I run away
You bite lips
And not yours

You say my name
Letter by letter
I already gave you half
But you
You have big eyes

And your voice sceams
My blood is boiling
At a dim pace
I ran my head on your forehead
To check if something is beating in you
And I felt nothing

Just the smell beneath the nails remains
And teeth marks
This will leave scars
I woke up with a hangover and not from wine
Only from your eyes
Big eyes

You show your teeth...

Marsh Dondurma-The End of the Day Shower

No matter how blah the day was, you can always count on the comforting end of the day shower to serve as a necessary pause and reset in the midst of everything going on. I remember when Marsh Dondurma was a street band in Jerusalem so excited about each new gig-now they're celebrating 10 years together as well as the release of their second album at the Barby-which on the 20th will probably be the grooviest and happiest place to be!

All the troubles are suddenly washed away
In the end of the day shower
After hours in the cold or heat
In the end of the day shower

You're allowed to sing
And everything echoes from wall to wall
There's time to breathe
In the end of the day shower

The whole world stops in its place
In the end of the day shower
Private rain which inspires peace
In the end of the day shower

You're allowed to sing
And everything echoes from wall to wall
There's time to breathe
In the end of the day shower

Shelly and Rotem- Eternal Loop Of Lies

I've been hearing the name Shelly and Rotem for quite some time now so I was very happy to discover a brand new single of theirs today. In an interview for Walla they say of it: "the song was written from the perspective of a person suffering from a chronic illness, when he is looking back at his childhood, a period in which he shed from himself responsibility and ignored the disease, living a lie whose implications he understood only when he matured. With or without a disease, we all have a tendency to tell ourselves lies that protect us from reality. 'Nothing will happen. I'm not afraid'. The song is about these little lies and the disillusionment of them".
I have a certain tendency to look (maybe too deeply) at songs in a broad social context, as opposed to psychologically, making this song eerily fitting for today.

If twelve shots a day show your courage
Then I've had none
No I don't want to hear definitions
To describe my condition
I'm fine
And I know one day I'll be blind
You've been telling me since I was nine
But in my own eternal loop of lies
Nothing bad happens
Nothing bad happens

And I am not afraid
So naive was I to say
I am not afraid
And I'll never rush again

Not caring and not noticing, nothing is going to change
What have I got to lose anyway
And I know one day I'll be blind
You've been telling me and I didn't mind
Cause in my own eternal loop of lies
Nothing bad happens
Nothing bad happens

And I am not afraid
So naive was I to say
I am not afraid