36: "Mixtape" Part I – Our Hope?
Israel Story
Israel Story
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to 'Mixtape,' our very first mini-series. Over the course of the next four episodes, we will go on a musical journey through anthems, songs of yearning, of war, of peace, and hear the stories behind some of Israel's most iconic tunes.
Let’s face it – when it comes to Israel, everything is complicated. Politics are complicated, religion is complicated, democracy is complicated, the conflict is complicated. Even our complications are complicated. These are the things that take us out to the street. That make us shout, and cry. That fill us with hope, and – just as often – plunge us into utter despair. But there is (seemingly) one island within Israeli society that escapes complexity, and brings us together more than it divides us: Israeli music. Or so, at least, we thought.
In this special mini-series, we set out to explore Israeli society – warts, rifts and fuzzy togetherness alike – through the stories of some of the country’s most iconic tunes.
The original music in this mini-series was composed, arranged and performed by the Mixtape Band, led by Ari Wenig and Dotan Moshanov, together with Ruth Danon, Eden Djamchid and Ronnie Wagner-Schmidt. The final song is a 1950s Tunisian rendition of HaTikvah sung by M. Cohen. The episode was recorded by Russell Castiglione and Josh Piel at the Dubway Studios in New York, and mixed by Sela Waisblum. It is based on Israel Story’s latest live show tour, “Mixtape.”
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| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. The You're going to be here. Oh, uh, and uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, the uh of singing it, maybe 8,000 times I sang it and I got to say it. I've never had to duplicate it. |
| 1:15.0 | It's rewritten every day again and again and again. |
| 1:20.0 | I always say it's almost like doing that me that when you pray three times a day, you know, the real believer |
| 1:26.2 | will do the Amidah, the shumanasay, every time, as if the first time he's ever done it because |
| 1:32.3 | he's actually putting himself back on course. |
| 1:35.6 | So I don't press any at all. |
| 1:37.4 | That is my prayer. |
| 1:38.4 | I contemplate. |
| 1:39.4 | I mean every word. |
| 1:40.4 | I don't care where I'm saying for the hillbillies for rednecks for white |
| 1:42.8 | crews for spades for jipsies for whatever it's always the year top in the end and they get it |
| 1:46.9 | they don't understand a word they get it it's it's odd because it's also the first |
| 1:51.5 | song I ever wrote I wrote it right here on this sofa, 40 years ago. |
| 1:57.0 | The Etto, the Ettov can, if I'm in an inish-ba. |
| 2:07.0 | As Allahi, in la, oh, Halai, As al-Ila, al-A-A-Hala, itach anininishah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, |
| 2:33.4 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, |
| 2:35.0 | oh, oh, oh, |
| 2:37.0 | oh, oh, oh, oh, |
| 2:38.0 | oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Israel, everything is complicated. Politics are complicated, religion is complicated, |
| 3:04.9 | democracy is complicated, the conflict is complicated, even our |
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