Kashy-A world that will look like you

This is my new dream wedding song- it's romantic, has a feel good vibe and perfect for late night dancing. The clip, in which Kashy's rowing a kayak along the Jordan River, at first seems a bit boring but with such a great song it's impossible not to watch till the end, and also because of Kashy's crazy in love eyes! The song is available for free on Kashy's bandcamp.

Whoever looks at me thinks I've gone crazy
Your gaze in my head before I woke up
Opening my eyes you're more beautiful than what I imagined
I don't believe that this thing I knew yesterday
I needed a second in you eyes and not more
To understand that I want you and nothing else
Already then I understood that for you I'm willing to give up
On all of the crazy nights that I no longer count
I don't recycle with you always feel it's the first time
Every meeting like a delusion, really like science fiction
Like I'm flying in space that it becomes physical
Like a bolt of electricity making me so alert
How a hot-tempered man like me becomes so patient
I feel like a predator who became a vegetarian
How you changed in a moment a fool like me
All of the fakes in the heart have become a harmony song

I want a world that will look like you my pretty girl
I don't believe that every night you're my wife
God loves me if he got a person like you
To live with me

A dive through your eyes into your heart
Falling into you
Your hands hold me
It's easier in my soul
To go back to you after such a tiring day
The power of compassion that I need a bit to feel
I'm carried with you into another world
You pulled me out of a storm everything's quieter
Crazy days don't take a breath
In one true thing, I find comfort
I come to you and everything seems marginal
I'm always with you, my love
I world that will look like you, my pretty girl
I can't believe that at night you're my wife

I want a world that will look like you, my pretty girl
I can't believe that you are every night my wife
God loves me if he got a person like you
To live with me

http://kashy.bandcamp.com/

http://www.facebook.com/KashyMusic

Shana Tova!!

Tomer Yosef-Words Like These

Tomer Yosef's voice and music style are pretty unmistakable and the first thought that comes to mind is chilling on the beach. He's the lead singer of the wonderful Balkan Beat Box (whom I've written about) and he's collaborated with many artists bringing his magic with him everywhere he goes. I love the love story in this song and it gives the vibe that it's not trying too hard to be a radio hit.

How words like these
Stab when there is a love like this
Arguments await us
And wars and disappointment

I love you so much
When you need a place
I thought I knew you
But I'm curious today

That's how it is in life
But with you it's like this, especially
Paths curve
And a path not alone is also comprehended
And you're not looking
Hiding the obvious
When you don't give up
I want what's forbidden

How will I make it that now
You'll be happy being here with me
There isn't a direction left
Which I haven't turned to, I've tried everything
Waiting for the magic to come back

So give some sign
Or at least
Some finger from the hand
Thoughts are tangled
And I want now to get involved with you

I'm ready to cry now
If you'll only smile
I want to get closer
Without you drifting farther

How will I make it that now
You'll be happy being here with me
There isn't a direction left
That I haven't turned to, I've tried everything
Waiting for the magic to return

http://www.myspace.com/tomeryf

Idan Haviv-Waiting

I love the simplicity of this song. It's quite emotional but at the same time very relaxing. The kind of music they like to play on the radio on weekends. And I'm pretty happy that it's no.1 on the radio charts. Idan Haviv is a former army officer from an elite unit and I think that it shows in this song. It's hard to describe, but I can really hear in this song the voice of a soldier away from home. Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and like the rest of the world we too had our eyes on America and watched the emotional ceremony on the news. Everybody talks about where they were on 9/11 and how vividly they remember it so I'll also share my thoughts. I was in the seventh grade at home with my sister- we were watching some sitcom on the children's channel and it was early evening. My mom came home from work, her face pale and told us to switch to the news because something happened. This was during the second intifada and my first thought was that there had been a terrorist attack in Israel-the thought of terror outside our country, in New York of all places, seemed so strange and foreign to me. Just a few months earlier I had a conversation with a friend from summer camp who said that when he'll grow up he'll leave the country and move to America because it's so much more normal there and from what he heard also easier to make money. I personally thought he was acting a bit cowardly but didn't say anything to him. I think that was the biggest shock of 9/11-realizing that no place was really safe from terror, completely contrary to what we thought before of America.

Who comes up first it's an old love
Until I'll wake up
Here lying beside you try to relax
Who like me is this way with you?

The same dream, a familiar sentence doesn't leave me alone
I'm here with you always waiting
A field of thorns or a field of cotton
I'm again me, I'm just me
Standing barefoot on warm ground and ready

Who comes for sure it's an old love
Until I'll wake up
How the light in me went out and still guarding yours
Who like me is this way with you?

The same dream, a familiar sentence doesn't leave me alone
I'm here with you always waiting
A field of thorns or a field of cotton
I'm again me, I'm just me
Standing barefoot on warm ground and ready

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Idan-Haviv/64660965574

Plaster-A Bit Too Much

I wasn't at Saturday's million protest and I wasn't at any of the earlier protests. Instead I was at a good friend's birthday party at a bar where the protest was shown on tv, and we saw on mute Eyal Golan exciting the crowd of 300,000 in Tel Aviv-with an additional 106,000 throughout the country. Although it was on mute it was obvious that the energy level there was very high and I was happy about that, but at the same time I didn't regret not being a part of it. There's been a lot of talk about the performers at the protests. Ever since the protest became so mainstream and such a consensus, it seems that every big artist wanted to join and give their support. There was some criticism at first regarding the fact that Mizrahi singers hadn't joined the party because at first the protest was regarding as belonging to the middle-class Tel Avivans, mostly of European origin. But that's no longer the case and Eyal Golan's performance in Tel Aviv seemed to serve to prove that the protest really does belong to (almost) all of Israel. And of course, he was also chosen to perform because he is such a great performer and crowd pleaser. Hayehudim were also there for pretty much the same reason, and probably also to bring in the young rocker audience. I have nothing against these performers but it would have been great if there were more musicians performing who actually had something to say about the protest and not just attract a huge crowd. Hadag Nachash are great, but they're not enough. So I was quite thrilled to stumble upon this collection, which for now is available to download for free, of indie singers singing songs that directly have to do with social change and the general feelings among the public regarding the protest. The collection is called "Ohalim Adirim" wich translates to "Huge/Amazing Tents" but also sounds very much like "Oh my God". The song I chose is from the second compilation, which is getting bigger and bigger since any musician is free to send a piece. Plaster may not be a very successful band here (yet) but I'm pretty sure that if they had performed with this song in the protest they would have been able to excite each and every protester and get them to sing along to the chorus. The songs on the collection capture the different collective feelings of the protest from frustration at the government to hope of a better future and this one is no exception capturing the main feeling that has come from this protest- that small citizens can stand up together against the powerful and make a change. Nobody knows what will come next and if there really will be a change but without a doubt there has been a change of consciousness
and many people have realized that they aren't alone with their feelings of frustration. I translated the creator's description of the collection because it is so acute and true and it really is important to support our culture and the artists who make it such a great one.

"The voice of a revolution. Musicians for a change of priorities.
The wind of revolutions are blowing over Israel and like always also this time the musicians are there from day one: playing, supporting, cheering, performing for free to strengthen the protesters and the righteous. But they too need support, they too are among the protesters, and they too are lifting their heads and saying
We need to change the priorities.

A country that neglects its culture also neglects its people. Despite its enormous contribution to society and social change, despite it being a pillar of the Israeli experience, the arts and especially the artists are always at the bottom of the priority ladder-they're the last to get paid (if at all), the last to receive support (if at all), and are still expected to always be there, always to shout the cry of the people, always to strengthen and encourage and sing the songs that will excite,calm,motivate action, become the soundtrack of an era.

This is no longer a compilation of protest songs, there is in this collection political protest songs, social, personal and instrumental pieces that musicians gave without anything for exchange, out of sympathy and support for promoting the culture in Israel in all its forms and in the social struggle that's changing the social order in the country. We are all calling upon Israel: Acknowledge your culture as a national treasure!

This collection belongs to all of us!
We call to more musicians to upload their songs.
You are invited to mail liroon@gmail.com to receive a username and password"


To take two cups of cheese
Maybe it's a bit too much
It's the old list
The one that slipped from my hands

To take two cups of cheese
I'll pass on the whipped cream
The top layer
I'll leave for someone richer

Two rooms for rent
Maybe it's a bit too much
To dream about a car and apartment
About the kids and not me

Two rooms for rent
I'm sick of being ashamed
And paying for what there isn't
And sharing what there is

Who wants to can blame
The small, the weak
That stood up against the big
If there aren't apartments there are tents

Who wants to can blame
The small, the desperate
That stood up against the big
If there aren't apartments there are tents

Two shifts without sleep
Maybe it's a bit too much
Even for sharp observers
To find what's wrong and till when

Two shifts without sleep
In the end, I feel asleep on guard
Maybe it's the whole country
That wakes up only when things are bad

Who wants to can blame
The small, the weak
That stood up against the big
If there aren't apartments there are tents

Who wants to can blame
The small, the desperate
That stood up against the big
If there aren't apartments there are tents

www.facebook.com/plasterofficial

http://ohalimadirim.bandcamp.com/album/-