Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood - Ashufak Shay (Featuring Rashid Al Najjar) (Official Visualiser)

Taken from 'Jarak Qaribak', out now: worldcircuit.lnk.to/JarakQaribak
Celebrated singer, musician and producer Dudu Tassa teams up with award-winning composer and guitarist Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead, The Smile) for new album ‘Jarak Qaribak’, bringing together vocalists and musicians from throughout the Middle East for a very special album of cross-border collaborations.
“Jarak Qaribak” translates, more or less, as “Your Neighbour Is Your Friend”. It’s an expansive, inclusive sentiment. The songs on the album, and the singers, are drawn from all over the Middle East - and, in keeping with the theme established by the album’s title, each singer takes a turn at a tune from a country other than their own. Jonny says that his somewhat incongruous benchmark when assembling the tracks on “Jarak Qaribak” was “trying to imagine what Kraftwerk would have done if they’d been in Cairo in the 1970s”.
Though Dudu says that he scrutinised every lyric as carefully as he could for even the vaguest hint of a political subtext, and insists - accurately - that “Jarak Qaribak” is an album of classic love songs, the romance and heartbreak they chronicle exclusively personal, neither Dudu nor Jonny are naïve enough to believe that nobody will project their own political prejudices onto this project, favourably or otherwise. “We didn’t want,” says Jonny, “to make out that we’re making any political point, but I do understand that as soon as you do anything in that part of the world it becomes political, even if it’s just artistic. Actually, possibly especially if it’s artistic.”
Dudu, however, believes that it would have been an act of bad faith to make “Jarak Qaribak” any other way. “Israel,” he notes, “is a small country between all those countries, so we’re very influenced by those cultures and by that music. And a lot of us in Israel - like my family - are descended from people who came here from elsewhere in the Middle East, so everything gets mixed up.” “It’s a letter in a bottle, thrown into the ocean,” he decides. “Who will get it, who will hear it, I don’t know. But someone will love it.”
Featured Artist: Rashid Al Najjar
Lyrics: Meyhad Hamad
Composer: Meyhad Hamad
Produced by Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood
Mixed by Nigel Godrich
Recorded by Nigel Powell, Ilan Harush, Yotam Agam, Ben Essev, Yoav Osterreicher, Shai C. Sivan
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine
Jonny Greenwood: Bass, Piano, Synth, Organ
Dudu Tassa: Guitars
Rashid Al Najjar: Guest Vocals
Itzhak Ventura: Flute
Yaniv Taichman: Oud
Mustafa Amal: Rebab
Niran Bassoon: Announcer
Ariel Qassis: Repertoire consulting & music notation
Idan Barir: Translations
Juan Pinto: Animation Director
#DuduTassa #JonnyGreenwood #JarakQaribak

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

Jonny has been busy on the guitar lately. We've got this album and a The Smile LP2 in the works - it's a good year for music.

[@emmanuelk1392]

actually, Jonny is not even on the guitar on this track :)

[@ziademad4707]

The smile lP2 is officially confirmed?

[@iSpoketoosoon]

He is playing on the bass guitar on this track

[@HQBacon]

​@@ziademad4707 yep. They've been recording it the last few months.

[@nathansprouse9208]

I wander if his work here will inform his stuff in the smile

[@Pokav1deo]

Despite not understanding the spoken language, the musical language has reached my soul. This is wonderful ❤️🙏.

[@doppler3237]

So happy to have discovered Dudu Tassa when they opened for Radiohead several years ago. We were sitting there mesmerized. Looking forward to this,

[@giladnavefrost7201]

Music and love eliminates all fights and conflicts. Keep spreading your love ya' Dudu.

[@ForrestGreenFlix]

Poo with eyes.

[@waynedexter]

Music and love exists, and yet…

[@alexneill8338]

Dudu Tassa's guitar arpeggios are giving me the Knives Out vibes!

[@solarflaresmusic9267]

that's because it's Jonny Greenwood playing it

[@lupa3041]

@@solarflaresmusic9267 no he isnt

[@diegomercadovillarroel4505]

We had Junun and now Middle East. Great

[@OkJustAMinute]

This is what happens when you have a partner from Israel. Middle Eastern Rock is the best combination of music styles. Finally two of my favorite musicians getting together to create some awesome magic.

[@lemonlime8949]

He’s from Palestine

[@OkJustAMinute]

Is that what the internet told you?

[@90Parnold]

Greenwood is a "WORLD" class musician. Wonderful collaboration with Tassa and music without boundaries !!

[@davidhidayat2392]

Debuted on my weekly personal music charts in April 16, 2023 edition :)

[@ZhenyaYufanov]

Simply beautiful!!

[@ondojaman1]

Красавчики! Любим и арабское , и Джонни!

[@shoshanacohen2957]

اتمني لكم الناج وانا من يهود العراق تركنا العراق وانا طفله اليوم عمري ٨٠ سنه واتمني لكم النجاح والازدهار דודו טסה מהמם ממשפחת כוותי הנפלאה

[@aminenbamebarkia8501]

I hope u re happy in ur life madam An Algerian fan of tassa and radiohead!

[@shoshanacohen2957]

@@aminenbamebarkia8501 yes thank God I am Happy

[@vanessasogne7555]

Jonny habibi...😊

[@gabrielrom2912]

this is so wonderful -- thank you to everyone involved in making this album happen

[@eric.byrdeart]

This just transcends language, cultural and all barriers. Such amazingly beautiful colaborations that Greenwood and all other musicians involved over the last years have just opened me up to so much beautiful music and culture.

[@matkrassus]

Gorgeous tune and great sentiment. Sounds great.

[@Jost01]

WHATTT???????? WHAT IS THIS??? LOVED IT, the great Jonny

[@davidbeatty7201]

Wow! Thank you for opening my eyes to such talent and beauty!

[@user-pz8qp3fb6b]

אמן שמישהו יתרגם בתגובות את כל האלבון

[@clumsiii]

this one! Rachid Taha, I know he's gone - but he would dig this tune

[@guylevy8778]

Amazing, a moment after a moment!

[@JF-kv1gm]

Can't wait to hear the album!😊

[@onlyguitarkt5025]

Faster jonny

[@almatsliah1]

Yalla Jonny!

[@matinalavi7589]

@@almatsliah1 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@johnhartmanmusic]

Congratulations

[@kellykenna9314]

Love this

[@noum700]

שיר פגז תוציאו עוד שירים מלכים

[@ronimakaroni123]

sounds great!

[@soljuarez7103]

Jonny talento hermoso!!!❤

[@realmadrid7998]

Masya Allah Antum Jonny

[@mymusicc]

jonny 😍😍😍😍

[@user-do7lr9xq3j]

🇮🇱🇵🇸refuse to be enemies

[@k0st34ka]

INSHALLAH!!!!!!!!!!

[@pouringlizards]

Nigel Powell helped record this? Amazing.

[@turbinicarpusdr.44]

Отличная композиция

[@freemind489]

دودو هو حفيد العبقري الملحن العراقي صالح الكويتي نفتخر به كعراقيين ❤

[@alonuzan1]

Dudu gabib albi❤

[@dwikartikayudhaswara2094]

❤ gusti

[@ForrestGreenFlix]

Instrumental to Radiohead, sounds like a neighbor to Rai.

[@user-ev3mm9wx8z]

דודו אתה אומן אח יקר אומן

[@johnsnider8613]

Can someone provide translation to English?

[@dertlizade3794]

Allah büyük.

[@user-pg7uj8lc5w]

Hi, anyone has found the lyrics didn’t find it !

[@metalsabatico]

Anyone know what dialect this album is sung in? Or is this fusha?

[@bikoretsheva7722]

דודו תן בראש, וחתום לי על האלבום של הכוויתים בבקשה

[@johnmorton5692]

Who is Ashufak Shay? Please explain.

[@galmahluf7132]

Lyrics please

[@johnmorton5692]

Ashufak Shay - I See You Differently I see you different than who you are Blessed be who painted your grace I see the world through your eyes I see a magical night in your face The mystery of your figure inspires my mind My heart celebrates my longing at high pace Loving you is crossing a rumbling ocean When all I long for in life is your embrace I'd cross every distance and take risks Just for you, even in the deadliest place When I see you, my wandering heart settles And your virtues make my heart race Let us not say tomorrow anymore Let us live as our hearts pray Your wish is my command, my love I'll sacrifice myself for you till the end of days

[@1iav]

شنو هاي

[@lukethebelgian]

It's nice, but it has been done so many times before....

[@ondojaman1]

Send me some other like this if you can!

[@lukethebelgian]

@@ondojaman1 listen to Avishai Cohen, one Israeli and two Arabs; wonderful music together

[@anca6298]

Ok Not the best version

[@ondojaman1]

Send me the best one

[@Pokav1deo]

I respectfully disagree 1000%. It’s wonderful 😊

[@husseinkhaled1300]

it sounds like a completely generic arabic song just with a guitar added in the background...

[@RaceYouAnyTime1]

They're described as "classic love songs," so what were you expecting?

[@azmanchu461]

He expecting "wow it's jonny must be experimental and extreme" maybe...

[@Pokav1deo]

No

[@user-ev3mm9wx8z]

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