SHALOSH - Onwards and Upwards

♥

http://www.shalosh.net

Remembering Amos Oz

Rest in peace Amos Oz. You will be dearly missed.

The High Windows - Will You Hear My Voice

Like the rest of the country, I was stunned and saddened to hear about Rona Ramon's death at 54 after battling pancreatic cancer. I'll never forget the day of the Columbia disaster when Ilan Ramon, our first astronaut, died together with the rest of the crew upon reentering Earth's atmosphere. Six years later another tragedy struck when pilot Asaf Ramon, Ilan and Rona's eldest son, died in a training flight accident. Following the tragedies, Rona worked in grief and coping counseling and served as founding CEO of the non-profit Ramon foundation for youth academic excellence and social leadership through science and technology. Learn more about her story in her own words here.

Will you hear my voice
so far away from me
Will you hear my voice
wherever you are

A strong voice
praying silently
over time
Sending a blessing

This country is big
and has many roads
We meet for a moment
and separate forever
A man tries,
but his legs fail
He will never find
what he has lost

My final days
are very close
Near is the day
of goodbye tears
I will wait for you
until my life will end
Like Rachel waited for her lover

Translation from hebrewsongs.com

Noga Shalev and the Voodoo Kids - Get Out

Yessss.

I want to get out of this city
Something big awaits me
Out of the box

To breath the air
To let my hair down and forget
Everything that happened

And sometimes a good conversation
Can fix everything
Delusions of fear and pride
The great eagle

I want to organize the rooms
And find out
What is left

And sometimes a chance meeting
Can move everything
Faith, knowledge, and lust
The great bridge

What's the point
If your fear
Closes in on everything and doesn't
Let you come in
It's not too late to get out
You'll find yourself
Standing in a great light
Swallowing everything

I want to get out already
I want to get out already

https://www.facebook.com/%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%94-%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95-Noga-Shalev-195144190513818/

Billy And The Firm - Now Is The Time

So good!

In my dream, I open my eyes
I kiss the present, this fog feeling stream
You know it's alright to sometimes fall

Now is the time
Now is the time

Death in small doses, come strength my soul
Feel the gravel close to your bones
The colors are hidden in what we destroy

Now is the time
Now is the time
Now is the time
Now!

To lose what we can't have
Swallow our pride
Lose what we can't find
Fall into the tide

Days passing by
Time is a dream
Sick is the secret-secrets kept in
This land is full with seeds of hate
My heart is empty
My eyes are wet

His rope has sent me to this dead end
And here I find my way instead
Yes here I find my way instead

Now is the time
Now is the time
Now is the time
Now is the time
Now is the time
Now is the time
Now is the time
Now is the time
Now!

To lose what we can't hide
Swallow our pride
Lose what we can't find
Fall into the tide

To lose what you can't hide
Swallow your pride
Lose what you can't find
Fall into the tide

https://www.facebook.com/billyandthefirm/

Ron Minis - The Aggregate

Another magical Bandcamp discovery! Rare rainy Saturday = experimental jazz time.

https://ronminis.bandcamp.com/

Loren Noyman - Battle War

♥

I'm in the battle war
I'm fighting for what is right or wrong
I'm fighting for justice
For deep emotion
Honesty

I'm the prisoner of this song
Don't want to be here
I'm the prisoner of my heart
Don't want to feel

I'm in the battle war
Don't you see
I'm wearing my best arms?
I'm feeling weak but also strong
In the battle war

I'm playing the game
Like you told me
Somebody's laughing
In my face
I am worried

I'm waving my flag
Can you see me?
I'm breaking through these
Clouds of fog
Now I'm breathing

I'm in the battle war
Don't you see
I'm wearing my best arms?
I'm feeling weak but also strong
In the battle war

I'm in the battle war
I'm fighting for what is right or wrong
I'm fighting for justice
For deep emotion
Honesty

https://lorennoyman.bandcamp.com

Walkie Talkie - Jellybean

So cute!

I wanna take you out
But it's just too hard to reach you
So I think I'll just stay home tonight
Let's try one more time
I know your phone keeps ringing
I just can't get you out of my mind

And I know that you feel that this love isn't real
But just let me reveal how much big of a deal
Is to me to be with you, please just let it be,
I want you so bad, can't you see?

You're my Jellybean
You're my Jellyqueen
You're my Jellybean

I wanna take you out
Maybe we can have some ice cream
Put all of our problems aside
Let's try one more time
I know your phone keeps ringing
I just can't get you out of my mind

And I know that you feel that this love isn't real
But just let me reveal how much big of a deal
Is to me to be with you, please just let it be,
I want you so bad, can't you see?

You're my Jellybean
You're my Jellyqueen
You're my Jellybean

https://fanlink.to/JellybeanWalkieTalkie

Ishai Adar feat. Elite - The Hyenas

♥

https://confusedmachines.bandcamp.com/album/12

Meital Trabelsi - Oh Captain

I think about posting this song every year near Rabin's memorial day but something always stops me. It always feels too dramatic and not relevant enough. The song captures the mood in Israel in 1996 but when I hear it today I can only think of the shrinking left camp, not the entire nation. Yet it's the first song that came to my mind when I heard about the horrific shooting in Pittsburgh last Saturday afternoon and it's stayed with me all week. This poem was originally written by Walt Whitman following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and Naomi Shemer translated it and wrote music for it in 1996. The lines "the prize we sought is won" and "the victor ship comes in with object won" were understandably not part of the Hebrew version because these lines allude to the preservation of the Union after the end of the Civil War. Lincoln was assassinated after the Civil War had ended but Rabin was assassinated at a peace rally and the peace process he fought for was never completed.

I also thought about this song this week because the shooting in Pittsburgh confirmed my shaky feeling that there is no captain to steer the ship through stormy waters, not in Israel and not in the U.S. The rhetoric of hatred and incitement flowing freely on social media channels which fueled the shooter's vile actions is all too familiar to Israeli citizens who recall the incitement against Rabin before his murder. An incitement which was recently denied by today's right-wing government. We're heading into an election year (the latest date for the general elections is November 2019, but they might happen earlier) and the organizers of tonight's memorial rally for Rabin said that the rally "will focus on warning against an atmosphere of division and incitement ahead of the upcoming elections". The stormy waters cannot be avoided but we can choose how to steer the ship.

Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!":

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
                          But O heart! heart! heart!
                             O the bleeding drops of red,
                                Where on the deck my Captain lies,
                                    Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths - for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
                        Here Captain! dear father!
                            This arm beneath your head!
                                It is some dream that on the deck,
                                   You've fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;
                         Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
                            But I with mournful tread,
                               Walk the deck my Captain lies,
                                   Fallen cold and dead.

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.

Mayonesa - The Race

Amazing.

https://mayonesa.bandcamp.com

Gingiot - Yonatan

Gingiot are finally back after 24 years with just the right whiff of nostalgia.

I saw soldiers
Carrying dreams like a hunchback
During a sculptured stretcher journey
And a child who dreams of being
And I saw women dreaming
About a class of photographers
Moving after them like a wave
An execution wall and your name is scratched in
And an arrow

All that's left of you
Is a painful memory
Everything that you left from you
Let it go and fade

And I saw an erupting volcano
There you stood wearing a black slip, a coat, and a flag
You searched with flashing eyes
And you found me stamped
In a broken piece of a mirror
Which accidentally fell from the heart

When I woke up you were an acrobat
Hanging over my head
Spitting peels into my eyes
A waltz dancing for the dead who are sailing in the river
Half a man half a howling dog
On a submarine sinking vertically
And written on it are our names
And an arrow in a heart

Jenny Penkin - Born Last Night

Jenny Penkin: This EP is about a process: a search for love, a search for self-acceptance. It's about overcoming your fears and all the lessons you learn as a young artist living in the city... I want people to identify, feel the story. I wish they'd listen to it while they drive, while they dance, while they're trippin, while they're sad, while they're happy...

What a relief, I can't believe that it took so long
I like new things, even them things I used to think were wrong
Now I can see, I was just scared of being alone

I understand, It's all in my hands,
I could easily make a safe land;
Fall on a sand, Be where I choose to be
Make a new plan, Zero demands, be who I choose to be

(Maybe I was trippin')

I was born last night, felt the speed of light,
I was free alright, I was feeling' tight,
What a delight.
I was born last night, I was on a flight
To another star, I was seeing bright,
Feeling like a kite.
(Floating in space)
Never felt so deep inside
Feeling' tight, doin' alright, what a delight,
What a delight.
Never felt so deep inside,
Felt the speed of light,
I'm on a flight to another star,
I was born last night

I'm going deep, cause I wanna keep myself from fallin' in,
Locking my knees, I'm bigger than this, I'll pull up my chin.
Straighten my back, No one could tell, but I was losing it

Went down the stairs, Felt so aware, Maybe I had too much
I didn't care, was gonna stare 'Till I came in touch
with everything, everything, Everything...

(Maybe I was trippin')

Judy Antebi - Give In

♥

Did we know did we know then
we would be we would be gone
That sitting and smiling with you,
could be the last chance to...

We avoid we avoid truth,
that you long to slip,
creep away to...

Did I run too far,
leaving you to fade,
watching as each day
drips into the next

Would you have would you have fought
for another day
If I had stayed.

Did I run too far,
leaving you to fade,
watching as each day
drips into the next

Did I run too far,
leaving you to fade...

Did we give did we give in
now I'm confronting the fall
you just promise me please,
to remember it all.

https://judyantebi.bandcamp.com/

Modern Phase - Border/ine

Modern Phase's Godel Pierce: "Life is about constant experiences that are pushing towards the borderline, where there is always a division between two discreet things-yourself and another battle that life has thrown your way".

https://modernphase.bandcamp.com

Teapacks - Ya Mustapha

Ever since the nation-state law passed, and even a bit before that, I've had a heavy feeling in my heart which I now identify as sorrow and shame. I usually try not to bring up politics when giving a spotlight to Israeli artists but in this case I feel that Teapacks are sending a clear message that they want to embrace cultural diversity in a time when it's being challenged. I realize that some viewers might be baffled to see an Israeli group singing in Arabic but about 50% of the Jewish population in Israel descends from countries under Muslim rule and older generations grew up listening to Arabic music and watching on Israeli TV the traditional Friday afternoon Arabic movie, which is now a thing of the past.

The Youtube description: A new single from Teapacks-this time a Teapacks version to a trilingual song (French, Arabic, and a bit of Italian) which came out in Europe in 1960 by Bob Azzam, an Egyptian singer with Lebanese ancestry and was sung by the Jewish-French-Turkish singer Dario Moreno in the 1962 film "El-Hob Kedah"-(This is Love) starring the singer Sabah. The song was composed by the famous Egyptian composer Mohamed Fawzi. A fun song of love and friends. Teapacks' rhythm department gave it a different beat, Kobi Oz mixed a bit the inner order and added new notes and Daniel Krief stands out with her voice and joy. The song is a yearning for happy days when nations were more together and less separate. An innocence of cultural abundance.

تعال يا مصطفى
تعال يا عيني
تعال يا مصطفى
تعال يا عيني
تعال يا مصطفى
يا ابن السرحان
جيب تعميرة عجمي
و لف على الجيران

Tu m'as allumé avec une allumette
Et tu m'as fait perdre la à tête
Chéri je t'aime chéri je t'adore,
como la salsa de pomodoro

يا مصطفى يا مصطفى
أنا بحبك يا مصطفى
سبع سنين في العطارين
دلوقتي جينا
Chez Maxim

واما ييجي كيفه كيفه
يشرب على كيفه كيفه

يا مصطفى يا مصطفى
أنا بحبك يا مصطفى
سبع سنين فى العطارين
دلوقتي جينا
Chez Maxim

[in Hebrew]:

Come ya Mustapha
Come my eyes

Come my eyes
Come ya Mustapha
Bring fun
And go among the neighbors

You lit me up with a match
And you made me lose my mind

Honey, I love you
I love you, ya Mustapha
Like tomato sauce

Ya Mustapha, ya Mustapha
I love you ya Mustapha
Seven years in Atttarin
And now we came to Maxim

And when his fun will come
He'll smoke with fun

Ya Mustapha, ya Mustapha
I love you ya Mustapga
Seven years in Atttarin
Now we came to Maxim

Meuban - Material Love

Surprisingly emotional.

https://meuban.bandcamp.com/

iogi - magic trick

♥

seems to me that while we're here
you might as well be a part of me
everybody's talking
and i'm trying to listen to you
in the morning i overthink
but try to wash it down my sink
now I see there's no magic trick
i guess i'm doing just fine
put on your make up
forget it i mean it
i'm walking beside you
don't need nothing else
better be close
because i'm getting the most of myself
don't expect much
i am what i am
seems to me that while you're here
you might as well take a walk with me
if you're not tired and feel at ease
we might go to see a movie
don't you fear that the writer's gone
summer comes and you feel alone
if you're patient enough you'll see that
i am coming real soon
put on your make up
forget it, i mean it
i'm walking beside you
don't need nothing else
better be close
cause I'm getting the most of myself
don't expect much
i am what i am

https://iogi.bandcamp.com

Eden Ben Zaken - My Life

Mazal Tov to Israel's sweetheart Eden Ben Zaken! Eden burst into our lives 5 years ago with her memorable X-Factor audition (she later won second place) and became Israeli pop royalty with her debut album "Queen of Roses". Since then she's been busy releasing hit after hit and I'm sure this one will be a classic. The video, which is footage of Ben Zaken's recent wedding to longtime boyfriend Shuki Biton, is very emotional and also captures perfectly Israeli weddings today. L'chayim!

You came into my life before I gave up
You lit my heart with a sea of colors
After all the years in which I've been searching for happiness
All the years in which I've been searching for words

My love, look into my eyes
We won everything yet we remained sane
Promise always to take care of just us
To take care forever

Oh you're my life
How do I have you
I'm lucky to have you by my side
Oh you're my life
I'm shouting in front of everyone
For me you are the greatest happiness in the world

And how is it that with you every morning is such happiness
I wish time would stop forever
And how is it that you came for a moment
And stayed for eternity
A love for a lifetime

Oh you're my life
How do I have you
I'm so lucky to have you by my side
Oh you're my life
I'm shouting in front of everyone
For me you are the greatest happiness in the world

Erez Dascal - Titanic

Wow.


Once again I am swept into an adventure without arms and legs
And we pay for this nonsense later in blood
In blood!

Again
I am dressed like a captain
And I imagine myself sailing
This cursed ship
Towards the safe haven
And all of the sailors are disabled
And I have no ears and eyes
My throat is hoarse with stupidity
And there's nowhere to sail
Because the ocean
Is so wide open
And the wind is waiting
For an opportunity to give wings
To give a slap in the eyelids
And bring with me to justice
Again

Again I'm indifferent
To all the death around
And all the contempt and the soot
On the streets of Tel Aviv
It's giving me a heartburn
And why are you interfering?
Who gave you a license to drive
With me
Like a mule
Like pairs of shoes
In the markets of southern Tel Aviv

Again
I know I'm lost
This game is addicted
To its own failures
It's trying me out with force
It has no heart and has no mind
There's only the power of inertia
And gravity

Admit it, you're mostly lost in all this
Trying to find a sign for a solution
And another car of opportunity has passed
We missed the moment
With salt water from the sea
We brought a small bucket of sand to bury all the mistakes
And we pay for this nonsense each time in blood
In blood!

https://www.facebook.com/erezdascal.n.mostlikely/

lust - Diamonds

♥

Living on a boat
Living in a dream
Partying all night
In the smoke machine
And we don't care about the past
Cause we know it never gonna last

We're like diamonds in the night

When I feel low
You're my heroine
We paint the skies
And they can never understand
What we have between us
And we don't care about the past
Cause we know it never gonna last

We're like diamonds in the night

https://www.lustofficial.com/

BuddhaHood - ITIL (feat. Tahel Levy)

Perfect.

https://buddhahood.bandcamp.com

InAbell - Fresh Honey

♥

near the northern rocks she planted roots
mud filled the the soles of her rubber boots
fresh was the air,
brown was her hair
back then

generations changed, the peaches grew
humble wishes partially came true
one rocking chair
one silent prayer
back then

Fresh honey from the bee hive
it used to be a good thing to be alive
Fresh honey from the bee hive
It used to be a good thing

I remember when she came to say
she's getting near her expiration day
white was her hair
down was the stare
back then

Fresh honey
from the bee hive
It used to be a good thing
to be alive
Fresh honey from the bee hive
it used to be a good thing

when the northern house was sold
she cried "I never planned for myself to grow so old.
I thought I'd finish my life here

https://www.inabellmusic.com/

Eifoshehu - Tel Aviv

"Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody"
-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Imagine Tel Aviv is falling apart-it's already here.
Its buildings are falling, full and large and up to here
Kids are crying in the car again, because they don't have air-conditioner
A crane is breaking the Cinerama-they say it's old

The women of the city are sobering up in discotheques
Try to listen to the phenomenon-it's fascinating if
They just would have thought before they would have gone to a gay bar
Because half of the men behave like steaks

It's unpleasant, it's unpleasant, it's unpleasant, and it's also bad
My Tel Aviv is falling but I don't have the right to vote
When it will be conquered by the Romans or the transforming aliens
It won't be so awful, it won't be so bad
Because my Tel Aviv has already fallen

It's like an apocalyptic vision. They say in the elliptical room
Of our historical ally that there is no turning back
And they're racking their brains in the room "What did we do wrong?
How did we not keep, we didn't warn, the gray city"

And at the burial ceremony, there at the home estate
All of the leaders will come and wash their hands
But the dirt gets stuck tight, so they'll go in deep
Until the sea will wash them away and make a joke of everyone

It's unpleasant, it's unpleasant, it's unpleasant, and it's also bad
My Tel Aviv is falling but I don't have the right to vote
When it will be conquered by the Romans or the transforming aliens
It won't be so awful, it won't be so bad
Because my Tel Aviv has already fallen

https://eifoshehu.bandcamp.com/

Saccadic Eye Motion - Safe Place

Essential escapism.

https://saccadiceyemotion.bandcamp.com/album/silver-soul-2

Stephane Legar & Itai Levy - Maman

♥

I won, my mamo
It's your boy Stephane
Everything you did was always for me
Itai Levi

Let's get it

Maman j'ai grandis
J'étais tout petit
Tu ma tou donner
J'ai avancé
Les sports j'ai tout fait, basket j'ai joué
Quand j'ai dit danser papa est inquiet
Qui pensait qu'il allait chanter, mauvaises notes à l'école ou est ton métier,
Tes cahiers va les prendre tu na rien toucher
Va travailler!
Pourquoi tu fais ça je t'ai bien éduquer, grand garçon tête vide ou des difficultés
Pas très facile de faire des choses non aimées
(Ohhhh)

I won, my mamo
Everything you did was always for me
You always made sure I had everything
Always to get up, never to fall
Oh my mamo
Mamo

En parlant des jaloux nous on travaille donc tout ça ya pas chez nous,
Les couteaux dans le dos et la haine surtout
J'peux te garantir que ça ya pas chez nous
OUI, ça me fait mal
JE, suis dans la salle
LAISSE, moi quand je parle,
Okay ça y-est moi je m'en vais
Mon frère tu ma blessé
Pourquoi tu ma laissé
Allez toi aussi YEEEE

I won, my mamo
Everything you did was always for me
You always made sure I had everything
Always to get up, never to fall
Oh my mamo
Mamo

Mother, mother, oh my mother
You led me forward
You already gave me your whole heart, your heart

I won, my mamo
Everything you did was always for me
You always made sure I had everything
Always to get up, never to fall
Oh my mamo
Mamo

https://www.facebook.com/1stephane.le.gar/

https://www.facebook.com/LeviItayOfficial/

Born & Raised - Women of Israel Celebrate 70

I'm surprised by how emotional this lovely song by Born & Raised made me feel, especially the lines "The road is long/And we always try to get along/Though we sing different songs/We do it in harmony". On the eve of Israel's 70 year Independence celebrations, it's hard to feel that despite our differences "we speak with open hearts through conversation, songs and prayers". I hope we'll get there, but we have a long way to go.

Lior Seker & Rita Kogan - In the City of Abandoned Armchairs

This is the first single from the EP "In the city of abandoned armchairs", an intriguing collaboration between Lior Seker's music and Rita Kogan's poems.

In the city of abandoned armchairs
Entire days grow short, the daylight fades
Melancholy twilight and prayers
Embraces the seashore within straits
From the skyline to the waistline
Of a bather, a nameless girl
She's a curved silhouette, dark and fine
Against a horizontal silent burn
Green eyes and red eyes
Flicker at us beyond the murky vail
Unraveled wishes and navigation lights
Upon a wondrous, winded trail

Translation is from Lior Seker & Rita Kogan's fb page.

Mustang - The Loneliness of the Angel

Instant classic.

https://mustang.bandcamp.com/

After years without a face
The clocks are tuned
To the starting point

It's the blue that is watching
The loneliness of the angel
But now I'm with you

And the voices echo
In the head, in the heart, in the rooms
Left open like a question

Here is the rising wind
And the falling night
But now I'm with you

But now I'm not leaving
I'm going on I'm carrying
All the great way
Here is the rising wind
And the falling night
But now I'm with you

The dreams are getting away
Crazy lights in flashes
There too the door was slammed shut

And the eyes are a mirror
Of the angel's loneliness
But now I'm with you

High words like towers
Sending hands, ropes
Into the depths of the scream

Here the wind is rising
A prayer from the depths of the heart
Look at me you'll look at you

But now I'm not leaving
I'm going on I'm carrying
All the great way
Here is the rising wind
And the falling night
But now I'm with you

Maor Cohen feat. Doron Talmon - Come

So sweet! (and kind of relatable, lol)

Come let's see the sun shining
I'd rather sleep a little more
Maybe we'll take a walk on the grass
It's enough for me to look at the window

Maybe we'll play a record in the morning
It's a shame, it's such beautiful silence
So let's go to a movie at two
Let me finish my coffee

And now I'm going
If you want maybe come along
And maybe I'll come back
And maybe...

Let's rearrange the house
What's wrong with how it is now?
Maybe we'll fly to Paris tonight
Leave me, my back hurts

What will be with you, get out of the shell
The day is passing and you're not waking up...
Now say that you're going
Maybe you'll tell me to come along
And here you're coming back again
And maybe, maybe not anymore

https://maorcohen.bandcamp.com/album/--7

Netta Barzillai - TOY

NETTA FEVER!!!

I have to admit, the first time I heard Toy" I didn't really like it. It sounded too loud and chaotic, too over-the-top, but then I heard it again, and again and somehow it all works perfectly, mainly thanks to Netta Barzillai's powerful voice and persona. Netta brought something fresh and new to "Rising Star" and her performances were always the highlight of the show. My favorite comment by the stunned judges was Static's who said: "I just don't know how to deal with this, bro, what's going on here? Where am I? I'm in the future, bro, what is this? What's going on here?" Despite her popularity, it was still a surprise that she actually won the show and was chosen to represent the country in the Eurovision. In a recent interview she said that her goal when coming to the show was to reach as many hearts as possible and to inspire others, and this is what gave her the strength to be so different and 'out of the box'. With 4 million views (and counting!) Netta has certainly reached many hearts and I'm proud to be represented by someone so original, creative, talented and fierce!

Look at me, I'm a beautiful creature
I don't care about your "modern-time preachers"
Welcome boys, too much noise, I will teach you
Pam pam pa hoo, Turram pam pa hoo

Hey, I think you forgot how to play
My teddy bear's running away
The Barbie got something to say: Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! My "Simon says" leave me alone
I'm taking my pikachu home
You're stupid just like your smart phone

Wonder woman, don't you ever forget
You're divine and he's about to regret
His baka-bakum, bak-bak bakumbai...

I'm not your toy
You stupid boy
I'll take you down
I'll make you watch me
Dancing with my dolls
On the MadaBaka Beat
Not your toy!

A-A-A-Ani Lo buba!*
Don't you go and play with my boy!
A-A-A-Ani Lo buba!
Don't you go and play...Shake!
Kulului, Kulului, Ah, wedding bells ringing
Kulului, Kulului, Ah, money man bling-bling
I don't care about your 'stefa'** , baby
Pam pam pa hoo, Turram pam pa hoo

Wonder woman, don't you ever forget
You're divine and he's about to regret
His baka-bakum...bak-bak bakumbai...

I'm not your toy
You stupid boy
I'll take you down I'll make you watch me
Dancing with my dolls
On the MadaBaka beat
Not your toy!

*I'm not your doll
**wads of cash

The Tree House Kids with Ayala Ingedashet - Mother Tell Me

Happy (belated) International Woman's Day! This heartwarming gem is taken from the third album of the Tree House Kids, a project for the whole family by brothers Ran and Yaya Cohen Aharonov. The project began with an album of songs, a second album, developed into two children's books, a theatre show based on the book, and from there to an acclaimed TV show on the education channel.

From the press: The song "Mother tell me" was written by Ayala Ingedashet and Ran Cohen Aharonov and composed by Yaya Cohen Aharonov. Ayala sings about her journey with her family to Israel. Ayala was two years old when they left Ethiopia. The hero of the song and the journey is Ayala's mother who embarked on the journey when she was pregnant and during the journey gave birth to Ayala's younger sister. During conversations between Ayala and her mother, she discovered new details about the journey in addition to what she knew and remembered, and these were incorporated into the song. The song features the renowned Ethiopian jazz saxophonist Abatte Barihun.

Mother tell me again
How did I get here
About the journey in the desert
How we left at night leaving everything there
We carried with us only a few jugs of water
And bread that doesn't spoil even after months
We left in the darkness on horses and donkeys
We moved quietly for long days
Tell me how you carried me in a cloth on your back
And how we drank from a tree which milk oozed from it

Mother tell me one more time
About the journey from Ethiopia
Your dream came true
To me you are the biggest hero
Mother tell me one more time
About the journey from Ethiopia
Your dream came true
My mother you are the biggest hero

Mother tell me again
How I got here
And about the journey in the desert
How we left at night leaving everything there

We walked at night and slept during the day
And you bathed me in the cold river between the mountains
Tell me again about the Arab woman
Who applied goat milk on me so I will be healthy again
How you loved to make little dolls from clay
Maybe they're still in Ambur maybe something is still there

Mother tell me again...

Gil Bar Hadas - What Were You Thinking

♥

What were you thinking when you came to him
And you stuck a knife in my back?

I love you, I love you
I told you
I love you, I love you so much

A hand is placed on a hip
You didn't control yourself?

I love you, I love you
I told you
I love you

I can't help thinking
About you and him
About you and him
Him on you and you on him

A button unravels a button
You didn't think to stop?

You don't care, you don't care
Your friend
You don't care

I can't help thinking
About you and him
About you and him
Him on you, and you on him

https://www.facebook.com/GilBarHadasMusic

Jeki & Rimoch - Corn Fields

I'm back from a break abroad and this is the perfect song to soften the fall before the harsh return to reality. Jeki & Rimoch is a stripped-down version of the epic space rock group "The Giant Lizards from Nibiru Planet" and this is probably one of my favorite Indie Kan videos so far. Watch until the end! Oh, and you can follow Jeki & Rimoch's adventures around the country here.

It was me who was walking in the corn fields
A ray of sunshine burns the corn's leaf
I remember very well how he took me there
At noon I was getting hot

The pupil opens and she looks different
How a hallucination connects
There's what to grasp, currents and she shakes
I give everything and she seems to accept
Yes in the corn fields

Take me there

Eden Atad - Stagnation

 

 At first I read the title of Eden Atad's new album as "Dory's dead" but while listening to it I realized that it might actually be "My generation is dead". Every track is worth listening to but there's something special about this song that manages to capture a familiar feeling in a new light.

We drove to the South on a hot day
To Klil's wedding
I turn up the music
When the parents talk
We don't hear them

My sister tells us about the factories
And the sinkholes
Yarden asks what the president's role is
And what is God's
We don't know

Something has to happen
Something has to move something
Maybe on Shavuot evening
The last holiday
And we'll finish the year
Maybe after the stagnation
A flood will come

My love hates word games
Silent in despair
Why is the United States entering Afghanistan?
Occupation
We don't laugh

We'll never get there, I declare
Mia is nauseated
My dad says that the country is on the ropes
And I'm actually quite fine
As long as there's air conditioner

Oren Lavie - Second Hand Lovers

Haunting and beautiful.

https://orenlavie.bandcamp.com/

Listening to music
We've heard once before
You take your shirt off
You drop on the floor
Then you crawl to the bedroom
But you stop at the door

Conversations grow old, you and I
We have not said a word in a while
I'm losing my humor
You're losing your smile

And the night portrays us
The moon betrays us
And the dark uncovers us
And under the covers
Lying second hand lovers tonight

Seasons and sorrows
And pictures we took
You'll start smoking
I'm reading a book
I'm losing my vision,
You're losing your looks

And the music
Plays bitter, plays sweet
You let your hair down
And roll off your seat
And you crawl to the bed, but you stop at its feet

And the night portrays us
The moon betrays us
And the dark uncovers us
And under the covers
Lying second hand lovers tonight

Something about my voice
Reminds you of
Something I used to say
You used to love

And the night portrays us
The piano plays us
And the dark uncovers us
And under the covers
Lying second hand lovers tonight

JonZ - I'm The One

Beautiful! From their fb: Jonz is an intimate optimistic duo that was created during a musical journey of Jenia Vasilenko and Yoav Or in 2014. In an isolated house on the Zamarin mountainside that rises above the Carmel's mountains, they started writing separately, and the desire for harmony and co-creation brought them to reassemble the lyrics and to integrate sounds and melodies creating their gentle folk song.

I'm the one who is sailing
In the ocean full of sound
And I can hear you
Whispering to me

My soul that's made of solid wind
was swept along by faith
And dreams

And now
I'm standing in between
Of all our hopes.
We built by years and years
We build by years

Daniella - Home

A soothing remedy for a restless mind.

https://daniellamuzik.bandcamp.com/album/daniella-tourgeman

Hagar Levy - See-Line Woman

Stunning!

http://hagarlevy.com/