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Let me fly/ Hanna Jahanforooz & Estas Tonne

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Vocal & Lyrics: Hanna Jahanforooz
Music & Guitar & Arrangement: Estas Tonne
Zard: Yonatan Bar Rashi
Director: Yuval Delshad

Let Me Fly
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You like the wind
I like the silence
Let me fly ...

Feel the light
No, no more crying
Let me fly ...

Let me fly -- let me fly

Behind the darkness
Sun will always shin
Let me fly ...

Never let you down

God send the angels
Never let you down
God send the angels
Let me fly -- let me fly

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Darvish/ Hanna Jahanforooz

Director: Yuval Delshad

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Ladino Jazz and Clave Cantatas: Bassist Avishai Cohen Sings Roots into Gold

Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen is an alchemist at heart. Finding inspiration in musicians ranging from Bach to Stevie Wonder, Avishai can transform a tired Israeli school tune back into poetic gold. He can take the Sephardic melodies his grandfather sang in prayer, or his mother hummed while washing dishes, and make them groove. He can take a sinuous and spontaneous jazz bass line turn it into a top forty hit.

Avishai’s joyful powers of transformation are in full force on Aurora, an album turning roots into lyrical, intense songs that showcase not only Avishai’s masterful bass and lifelong musical loves, but his newfound voice.

“It’s a very good practice for any musician, to learn to sing. It’s a beautiful practice in humility, an ongoing craft,” Avishai explains, musing on why he took up singing after decades as a successful jazz bassist. “But you have to take care. You have to like yourself enough to listen to yourself. To accept things that don’t always come out just how you imagined them. It is very exposed.”

Though Avishai’s first performance as a vocalist came at an American summer camp, where a boogie-woogie loving music director got the kids singing songs from Free to Be You and Me, he dropped the idea of combining his chosen instrument and his voice for decades. Years later, at a New York club, Avishai was blown away by Andy Gonzalez “an unsung hero of Latin bass, who effortlessly sang along while brilliantly powering the rhythm section. “I asked him how he managed it,” Avishai recalls. “He just looked at me and said in his characteristically New York tough way, ‘Yeah, it took me a minute or two.’”

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Maurice Médioni meets Watcha Clan, for an unbelievable moment!

Hi there, here's a little video of our great recording session with Maurice Medioni, what a moment!

and also with other friends:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVFUDYGZ_nI&feature=player_embedded

let's keep in touch, we're working on our nu album and Watcha Clan we'll soon be back on tour.
more infos:
http://www.myspace.com/watchaclan
http://www.facebook.com/pages/WATCHA-CLAN/12262412778?ref=ts

peace!

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New Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family Album

Smithsonian Folkways is excited to announce the new children’s music release, Go Waggaloo, from Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family. The album features Sarah Lee Guthrie, her husband Johnny Irion, their two daughters, and a host of other family and friends including her father Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Pete’s grandson Tao Rodriguez Seeger. Go Waggaloo continues the Guthrie song-making tradition forged by Sarah’s grandfather, Woody Guthrie.
The album includes three previously unrecorded songs written by Woody Guthrie and set to music for the first time by Sarah Lee Guthrie. The album mixes traditional folk with subtle uses of modern technology, including drum machines, loops, and cell phone recordings.
For information about the album or to order visit http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=3238
Watch a video about the making of the album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZJmfw1Zzn8&feature=channel_page

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White Bird

Dedicated to all Iranian in Iran and all over the world- and to all the children, Woman and Man who needs to be FREE!!!
Lyrics: Hanna Jahanforooz
Music: Walter Herold

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Watcha Clan at Chicago World Music Fest

Unieros friend enjoyed live performance of Watcha Clan during Chicago World Music Festival 2009

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