About a year ago, Rafael Aragon was contacted by Kateryna Ostrovska, ukranian singer, musician and composer based in Hamburg, instigator and curator of the "Peace Project", to ask him to remix this song she recorded with 36 people from 15 countries.
Out of the wide and rich audio material from the recording, Rafael created a smooth and mellow downtempo track. With his own science of sound collage and ethnic percussions, he extracted the essence and the main Yiddish vocal and harmonic parts of the song, to display a brand new, "chiaroscuro" version of the song.
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ABOUT THE ORIGINAL TRACK :
/We shout for Peace/
"36 people from 15 countrys gathered together to send a peace message to this world. The song was produced by a jewish and an arab singer from Hamburg and Berlin. It's based on an old khassidic Nigun (jewish religious vocal music) “Volt ikh gehat koyekh”, which has been transformed into a peace song a long time ago by singer Adrienne Cooper.
The more the war makes us dumb, the more you want to scream, sing, pray and whisper for peace. When one day everyone participates, when nobody distinguishes between “us” and “them”, when a deep comprehension of unity touches our hearts, the war will stop by itself. This is the message of the song, sung in Yiddish, Eton, French, Arabic and German.
This song is dedicated to those who, far from the limelight, reach the rescuing hands to people in need."
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Original track can be downloaded here :
dacasa-records.de?page_id=121&lang=en
released July 11, 2018
Remix by Rafael Aragon
Original track by Peace Project / DACASA RECORDS (Hamburg, DE)
ORIGINAL TRACK CREDITS :
Musicians:
Kora: Saliou Sissoko (Senegal)
Guitar: Kateryna Ostrovska (Ukraine)
Brazilian percussion: Juninho Quebradera (Brazil)
Arabic percussion: Jacobus Thiele (Germany)
Flute: Marcelo Moguilevsky (Argentina)
Violin: Vanessa Vromans (Australia)
Software Instruments: Chadi Dalati Yasedee (Lebanon)
Singers:
Yiddish: Svetlana Kundish (Israel), Kateryna Ostrovska (Ukraine)
Eton, French: Toto Lightman (Cameroon)
Arabic: Chadi Dalati Yasedee (Lebanon)
German: Childrens choir of Lightman Familie (Germany)
Ghandi, Lumina, Shakti, Akiko
Choir of Yiddish Songs Workshops of Yiddisch Summer Weimar 2015
Production:
Music and Text arrangement: Kateryna Ostrovska (Ukraine)
Yiddish correction: Dorothea Greve
Recordings: Alexey Rozov (Russia), Kateryna Ostrovska (Ukraine), Chadi Dalati Yassedee (Lebanon)
Production: Chadi Dalati Yasedee und Kateryna Ostrovska
Mix: Chadi Dalati Yasedee
Master: Rodrigo Muna da Silva Wichmann (Germany)