{"id":13,"date":"2005-01-07T21:40:37","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T19:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hadaralevin.com\/words\/?p=13"},"modified":"2005-01-07T21:40:37","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T19:40:37","slug":"the-move-behind-the-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hadaralevin.com\/words\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"The Move – Behind The Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE MOVE<\/strong> has been a great journey for me, so I was thinking of letting you know a bit of the stories and thoughts behind the songs. Just a bit, though, so I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t blow the magic away, and also, to leave something for the press. All and all, recording The Move<\/strong> has been a blast. I cannot be grateful enough for the experience.<\/p>\n

1. Rap of Faith<\/u><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It started with an after noon vodka and a dream. You had no faith in me, you spoke about the girl who played a whole song on one string. Well, I got so many notes under my skin.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

RAP OF FAITH<\/strong> is a rap of faith in music. Faith in Me. In my way. It starts up with an episode I remember clearly, just when I was about to embark on my music career. Then it goes on to explore some of the tender, vulnerable relationships amongst, oh well, lovers, musicians, anyone really. Of course, it all starts with one love and ends up with another.<\/p>\n

2. Break Me Down<\/u><\/p>\n

Love like that. He preferred European films, and I preferred Hollywood. But he always ended up coming to all my concerts. And now he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing his great music in Hollywood. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun having him play in my concerts too.<\/p>\n

3. Blue Eyed Shadow<\/u><\/p>\n

Better known as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just wanna get laid tonight\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. What can I say, love takes on a whole different look, when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing music. This guy whom I loved came secretly to one of my concerts. I spotted him instantly. He appeared in the back, a shadow merged in the dark bulk of the audience, except for his clearly sparkling, recognizable blue eyes.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You look like a top model\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, I was thinking, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just a working class hero with something to say”. I always feel my love is so misunderstood. Nothing ever beats music for me. Zappa put it perfectly: Love is not music. Music is the best. “So when I tell you that I love you, please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get me wrong, my music gets to choose my top ten pleasures of this world.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

4. Brooklyn Beat<\/u><\/p>\n

That friend from song # 2, and also the one from WHAT THE FUCK,\u00c2\u00a0 and from many other songs, is a great singer\\song writer. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a song that gets as real as lovers racing down a record deal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. We’re definitely racing each other and he’s a great racer too.<\/p>\n

5. The Move<\/u><\/p>\n

Falling in love with a DJ can be SO romantic. I cannot disclose any more details. But the answers to all questions are in the song.<\/p>\n

6. Sexual Underground<\/u><\/p>\n

One of my favourite trombone songs. Before AA Cool came into my life, this song was a solo-piano. This is one of the first songs we played together, and where he became my musical soul mate. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something about AA Cool\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trombone that deeply digs the heart of my songs and responds PERFECTLY to it.<\/p>\n

7. Music Makes No Sense<\/u><\/p>\n

This is THE BEST version of this song so far, and the guitars of Uri Kinorot make the whole difference. I wrote this song in a moment of deep confusion, and I was holding on to music like never before, and it saved my ass, mentally, that is. Like I said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153music makes no sense, but it takes you somewhere where there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life and love and inner jive and groove, my friend\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n

8. Hot Stuff<\/u><\/p>\n

Oh, that song is breaking my heart. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you know already, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a-messing with the real, that gets a deal, and all the rest falls on the way. Perhaps another chance we take, risking everything we have,getting closer to the edge, is living\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Yeah. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about taking REAL chances, living on the edge, and making something great out of your life. I mean, I cannot settle for less.<\/p>\n

9. All I WANT<\/u><\/p>\n

This song is about putting my soul on the line, in LOVE and in MY SONGS. Once again, I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t settle for less, in love or music. Yet: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 I believe in LOVE, just as long as LOVE believes in me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

10. R& B<\/u><\/p>\n

Someone really broke my trust, left me in the cold, on the road, like a dog, all alone. But I knew:
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You gotta let it be born
\nGotta MOVE it on and on.
\nGotta let yourself free.
\nGotta know who you ARE and BE.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

11. White Skin Bound<\/u><\/p>\n

My first attempt at soft-rap. The lyrics will be attached separately. So many lovers have been compressed into that song, but my music, as always, takes them all.<\/p>\n

12. Falling in Love<\/u><\/p>\n

The best part of any relationship is the FALLING IN LOVE part of it. That oh so furtive bliss. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand it.<\/p>\n

13. Magic Time<\/u><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153No shit can pull me down.\u00c2\u00a0 You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting nowhere loving underground\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. You know, when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in a kind of a secret or somewhat forbidden affair, and you want to break loose, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re willing to pay the price?<\/p>\n

14. It ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Good Enough<\/u><\/p>\n

You know it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lonely at the top, but you want to get there anyway. You want to look at the world from the cover of a weekend magazine. You know that people always look better on the Cover than on the Middle page. And you never look back. Sometimes you just feel that nothing, not even the best love in the world, will wvwer be good enough for you.<\/p>\n

15. A miracle at a time<\/u><\/p>\n

Woa, that was a great spring. I fell in love with someone so TOTALLY different than me. No one gave us a chance. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure we ever did give ourselves a chance. But we enjoyed the short time we had and took our days ONE MIRACLE AT A TIME. It gave me a lot of strength and faith in my way, and inspired a few songs. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still taking life this way, one miracle at a time.<\/p>\n

16. Your Smile<\/u><\/p>\n

The sad side of the above mentioned miracle.<\/p>\n

17. Schoziphrenia<\/u>. (To produce your own album)<\/p>\n

This song completes the heart of this album. I wrote this song the night before I started recording this album. There were a lot of nasty wars in my life those days, and I realized I was going to produce this album alone, musically, and that I needed all the strength I can get. I had a lot of sweet, inspiring and humorous rage that kept a lot of sadness away. I needed so much strength that there was no place for sadness. I kept asking myself, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153do you believe that one more song will bring you back home?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a love song to myself, and to this art of song making. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really perfect way to seal this album. I have a well-produced version of this song, produced by Itamar Eshpar, but I decided to use this very naked version, with piano only. And here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the thing:
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If this music pleases you at all, my land of milk and honey,
\nI want to feel your love, I want to see the money.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THE MOVE has been a great journey for me, so I was thinking of letting you know a bit of the stories and thoughts behind the songs. Just a bit, though, so I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t blow the magic away, and also, to leave something for the press. All and all, recording The Move has been a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hadaralevin.com\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hadaralevin.com\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hadaralevin.com\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hadaralevin.com\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hadaralevin.com\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hadaralevin.com\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hadaralevin.com\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hadaralevin.com\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hadaralevin.com\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}