my granddaughters

yaara and hagar,

hagar is 20 months and yaara is 4 and a half years old, choresh is 34 years of age, he is married to galit.

they are israelis, language, music, food, family.

they don't know any of the artists i work with.

when they arrive like today, miri my wife is cooking great, i play jj cale to the girls to get them some music i used to listen to when in my teens.

they have 2 great virtual friends i have created for them when yaara just begun to talk.

they are hump and the bird. hump stands for everything the girls needs hump to stand for.it could be a girlfriend, a car, the sky or money, the bird is the bird that we are all in need for. for it's voice, singing, alert, reminder and beauty.

yaara is taking care on hump and the bird. she feeds them, puts them to bed at night and teaches them music and all about life in the real world.

when i was at the same age yaara is at today i remember music on the radio, all types of music, arabic, hebrew, classic,folk,yiddish, chazanut which is cantors music and more.

radio was the only source for music at home, my mother used to dance. every once in a while she would jump from bed, where she spent most of her time, emerge with a wild, near crazy dance followed by loud singing and a laughter. once the song she loves was over she returned to bed, claiming again a migraine.

this is how i learned about pain and hope through love, music and art.

usherul, she used to call me, my uncle is david oistrach she continued, one of the greatest violin masters in the world. he doesn't know where i am.

i could never tell if she is making the story or not. in the basement were we lived there was an old violin, i never made an attempt to play this violin. it didn't belong with my world. the violin was a part of a broken world, a secret world that nobody talks about. i had to live for the future, to be prepared for better times when we have a better home and not use the building's basement that served as public shelter at war times as our apartment.

tomorrow i will allow you an arabic remix by my friend yoad nevo. soon on http://www.yoadnevo.com/ he works with me at waves audio ltd. i was privileged to work with him when managing noa as producer mixer on noa's album titled now and some other projects like cantor spielman.