2020 was a challenging year, to say the least, but it made way for musical collaborations that would probably never have happened otherwise like Roy Rieck's project Hagal Hasheni (The second wave). The project began at the beginning of the first lockdown and a double album was released in September, just in time for the actual second wave. The idea behind the project is playful and brilliant: Rieck asked artists to send him unfinished drafts that they had lying around-lyrics without music, or music without lyrics, and then he would send it to other artists to work on. Rotem Bar Or from the Angelcy said in an interview that Rieck was bugging him to send his part so one morning he came up with the lyrics from the top of his head and sent them to Rieck in a WhatsApp voice message. Orel Tamuz took the reins from there and the result is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard this year.
The flowers bloom
And the convoy passes
And the melody returns
To the umbilical cord
The dead walk
To search for another peace
She goes down to the underground
She goes down to the essence
The world falls
Into a dark pit
Inside a dark pit
The lights play all night, yes
Suddenly lost
In an untitled moment
Suddenly children in a movie
Children without direction
She says to tell the
Story which connects
The ocean to the pinky
The sun to nothing
The world falls
Into a dark pit
Inside a dark pit
The lights play all night, yes
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