38: "Mixtape" Part III – Eastward Bound

Israel Story

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🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In a music scene dominated by Ashkenazi culture, Mizrahi singers had to patiently pave their way to the Israeli mainstream one song at a time. In Part III of our miniseries, we meet two Yemenite trailblazers,

In Israel today, Mizrahi – or “Eastern” – music is ubiquitous. In fact, to many, it is practically synonymous with Israeli music. But that wasn’t always the case. For decades, Israeli radio stations ignored Mizrahi tunes and exclusively played music rooted in Ashkenazi traditions. That began to change in the late-1970s and early-1980s, due – in no small part – to a few veritable trailblazers.

The original music in this episode 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, Ad Matay Elohay (Till When My G-d) was written by Uzi Chitman and sung by Zohar Argov. The episode was edited by Yochai Maital, recorded by Tony Hernandez at the Off Record Studios in New York, and mixed by Sela Waisblum. It is based on our latest live show, “Mixtape.” You can listen to Part I of the miniseries here and Part II here.

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0:15.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. It was nearly 2 a.m. when on a rainy night a few weeks ago,
0:29.8	thousands of fully clothed Israelis jumped into the shallow pool in Tel Aviv's Robin Square.
0:36.0	They were all splashing around, making loud buck,
0:42.0	buck, b buck chicken sounds and enthusiastically waving Israeli flags. And no, this wasn't as you might think, some sort of alternative festival or
0:57.0	and no, this wasn't as you might think some sort of alternative festival or acid rave, not at all. It was rather a rare moment of
1:07.1	national pride. Israel you see had just won the Eurovision, the biggest song competition in Europe. I like I got a guy
1:24.0	I got a good I'm not a guy
1:26.0	I like a boy I like your time
1:28.0	I know you a girl
1:30.0	you stupid boy
1:32.0	I'm seeing you Back in Lisbon, Portugal, where the 2018 Eurovision took place.
1:43.0	The victorious Netta Brasilai was busy receiving congratulatory phone calls from BB
1:49.0	and liking supportive Instagram posts made by Wonder Woman.
1:53.0	Meanwhile, folks around Israel gathered to celebrate something that had only happened three times before.
2:00.0	A par-a-lai, everyone was yelling and trying. 4.
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2:06.0	You made it.
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2:19.8	So we've reached part three of our mini series,
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