Here Comes the Rain Again - Dikla Cover (Music Video): youtube, lyrics I'll take song-alone on this, too, but come on: women, magic, longing. Is that the same woman, at different times in her life - perhaps different lives? And if they're not the same woman - are the relatives, friends, lovers (<-please)?
Who By Fire - Maureen Nehedar & Rona Keinan Cover (Song): youtube, lyrics Leonard Cohen wrote this song off a Day of Atonement piyut (pietous poetry incorporated into prayer, but not in itself an article of prayer). In this version, Persian-Jewish paytanit (that is, musician who specializes in this genre) Maureen Nehedar and (lesbian, depression-survivor) rock singer/songwriter Rona Keinan perform it as a duet, with Maureen adding in verses from Atonement Day prayer Avinu Malkeinu (Our Father, Our King; this would be the Hebrew verses, and the title should be google-able).
Journey - Mark Eliyahu (Instrumental): youtube Mark Eliyahu's music is, simultaneously, Jewish-variant devotional/mystical and West-to-Central Asian; both are his heritage. This particular piece has a cinematic quality, to me - there's a story happening here. The title tells us something about what kind of a story that is, but the rest is open to imagination.
Habib Galbi - A-WA Cover (Music Video): youtube, lyrics + translation Habib Galbi is a folk song, and the video reads - to me - like a folk tale. Who is the old woman watching? What are the three dancing men? How did the three sisters came to be in that predicament, and how goes their journey to what seems like a happy supernatural ending?
Dancing on Needles - Charlotte Martin (Song): youtube (fanvid; cuts before the actual end, but doesn't lose lyrics and more than suffices; live versions also exist on youtube, but they're all piano-solo acoustic and veeeeeery different), lyrics This song makes some obvious references to The Little Mermaid, but reads as if it's between two women - and then there's mentions of wars and other things that aren't in Andersen's tale.
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I'll take song-alone on this, too, but come on: women, magic, longing. Is that the same woman, at different times in her life - perhaps different lives? And if they're not the same woman - are the relatives, friends, lovers (<-please)?
Who By Fire - Maureen Nehedar & Rona Keinan Cover (Song): youtube, lyrics
Leonard Cohen wrote this song off a Day of Atonement piyut (pietous poetry incorporated into prayer, but not in itself an article of prayer). In this version, Persian-Jewish paytanit (that is, musician who specializes in this genre) Maureen Nehedar and (lesbian, depression-survivor) rock singer/songwriter Rona Keinan perform it as a duet, with Maureen adding in verses from Atonement Day prayer Avinu Malkeinu (Our Father, Our King; this would be the Hebrew verses, and the title should be google-able).
Journey - Mark Eliyahu (Instrumental): youtube
Mark Eliyahu's music is, simultaneously, Jewish-variant devotional/mystical and West-to-Central Asian; both are his heritage. This particular piece has a cinematic quality, to me - there's a story happening here. The title tells us something about what kind of a story that is, but the rest is open to imagination.
Habib Galbi - A-WA Cover (Music Video): youtube, lyrics + translation
Habib Galbi is a folk song, and the video reads - to me - like a folk tale. Who is the old woman watching? What are the three dancing men? How did the three sisters came to be in that predicament, and how goes their journey to what seems like a happy supernatural ending?
Dancing on Needles - Charlotte Martin (Song): youtube (fanvid; cuts before the actual end, but doesn't lose lyrics and more than suffices; live versions also exist on youtube, but they're all piano-solo acoustic and veeeeeery different), lyrics
This song makes some obvious references to The Little Mermaid, but reads as if it's between two women - and then there's mentions of wars and other things that aren't in Andersen's tale.