[HANASHIR:10280] Re: Od Yavo Shalom

[Judah Cohen <jcohen...>]

Sheva's first CD, "Celestial Wedding," was actually the soundtrack taken
from a performance art piece initially performed at (I think) the Acco arts
festival in Israel.  (I've lent the disk to someone, so I'm doing this from
memory).  From what I recall, the performance was centered around a mass
wedding involving ten couples (from what I read in the liner notes, it was
hard to tell if the wedding was real or simulated); and this was the last
song on the album.  It appeared to be a kind of wrapping up/celebratory
piece that completed the mystical union (note that on the recording the song
begins slowly with a single voice, and speeds up to a wild frenzy of voices
and instruments by the end).  Anyone who has the CD can check the liner
notes and correct me, but I think this was the general gist of it.

Judah.

> From: Joanna Selznick Dulkin <joanna (at) stanfordalumni(dot)org>
> Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 15:00:11 +0200
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
> Subject: [HANASHIR:10279] Od Yavo Shalom
> 
> Od Yavo is written/performed by a group called Sheva, whose members are
> Arab and Israeli.  They have 2 cds, the 1st one has Salaam on it (the
> "official" title of the song) and is a lot of otherwise mood/ambient middle
> eastern type stuff., the second CD is better, in my opinion, apart from
> Salaam.
> I don't think the words come from any particular text per se, rather more
> out of a situation and a feeling.
> Joanna Selznick Dulkin
> 
> 
> 

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