You are listening to a sample from the 'a philosophy of freedom' project. part 1 has been released on specially made graffitied CDs that can now be purchased at www.ifhar.com
If you are involved in music publishing, distribution or performance internationally and would like to work together, please contact me. My homes are currently in London and in Tel Aviv-Jaffa.
The songs tell different stories and display different characters as based on my own palette of emotions and experience. All the characters are somehow stuck - some in solitary contemplation, some in an unending conflict with the reality around them, some in suffocating dependencies; but all are somehow struggling with their own selves. They are striving to understand what freedom is, and to attain it.
As I began engaging in sexual relationships in recent years, I became intrigued by what they exposed in my own being - if I cared to look. Things that, in the transition from childhood to adulthood lost relevance in my mind, suddenly appeared with a new guise and a new agenda - running away from them was no longer an option. Fears that I carried - of rejection, of aloneness, of sameness, of loss, and most importantly, of all kinds of shackles, did not so much disappear as snuggle into dark crevices in my mind, affecting the truth of my words and actions without me even realising.
In my travels I discovered that "coming out" was not something only those whose sexualities defy convention or rule did. It was something that anyone who had put distance between their body, mind and soul had to do - often as triggered by early experiences of loss and rejection. I was not born with my shame, I learnt it - whether from a disapproving parent or a picture in a magazine. In this, we each build their own closet (whatever size or shape it may take in our lives). I came to see that when I stayed inside my closet I was not only excluded from the world - I was also protected from it. Until I decide I do not need to be.
How can I be free when I am wearing a constant mask? I realised that the relationships I had with other people reflected perfectly the relationship I have with my own body and mind - fear, shame and constraint in one turned into violence, manipulation and conflict in the others. The yearning for what is natural: a comfortable, undivided and loving space in both body and mind; the habits of years that still need to be un-learnt. This exorcism, this journey of inner-reconciliation is still a challenge and a thrill, and I am looking forward to sharing more of it.
Everything is pleasing to the senses around here!! BIG ups! Keep doin' what ya love!!!
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אחרי הופעה בלתי נשכחת לכבוד 3 שנים ללהקה, ההארד רוק והגראנג' מביאים לכם 2 הופעות נוספות:
4/6, חמישי, 21:30 – חוזרים בפעם השלישית לרודאו פאב, בלפור 23, שכונת הדר, חיפה
6/6, מוצ"ש, 20:30 – פסטיבל Fresh במוטורוק בר, הרצל 146 ת"א Новый фестиваль "Fresh" не за горами. На этот раз эксперимент "Fresh-Tribute"- наши местные известные группы будут играть материал очень известных неместных групп - "Сплин", "Наутилус", "Кино", "AC..DC", "Муммий тролль", "ДДТ", "Король и Шут", "Nirvana", "Алиса", "Земфира", "Чичерина", "Led Zeppelin" и др. прозвучат в фестивале "Fresh-Tribute". Всё это и конечно же свой материал, исполнят: "Мъёт", "Ю.L.А", "Mens Rea ", "Ещё неизвестен", "Гямосапиенс".
Oтличная возможность познакомиться с фестивалем через давно известный и любимый репертуар. Тем кто пропустил предыдущие фестивали: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQmn3--NVXQ
Ждём вас в Motorock Bar, 06.06.09 к 20:00 Вход: 50ш
hello Shahaf! greetings and blessings from Brazil. thanks for the friendship and specially for sharing your interesting music with me. it's great to have you as a friend. might and light. Z.A. Feitosa (poemas e contos)
NAILS IN THE FENCE: Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence. (Most importantly the last sentence) There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails Into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all The nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. But It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound will still be there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Remember that friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us." It's National Friendship Week. Show your friends how much you care. Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND, even if it means sending it back to the person who sent it to you! If it comes back to you, you will then know you have a circle of friends. YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I AM HONORED! Now send this to every friend you have!! And to your family (they need to know that you love them too). Please forgive me if I have ever left a 'hole' in your fence.
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