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Israel heavy mixture band conquests international award
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KOBI FARHI INTERVIEW – And again we fail to see that all is one…
What is usually a passion (interviewing people close to me in the musical world) turned into something very difficult this time, given the circumstances.
Orphaned Land have been on the scene for more than 30 years and the message they have always brought with their music is of peace and equality between Jews, Muslims and Christians, as well as departing from some of their government’s actions on several occasions. The attack by Hamas (Islamist Palestinian terrorist force) on the 7th of October was something horrible, especially due to the brutality of the killings; women raped and then killed, very young boys slaughtered, children tied up and set on fire, disfigured corpses, elderly people killed and so on… (description and videos of the attack can be found resumed in this article by TheGuardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/09/how-the-hamas-attack-on-the-supernova-festival-in-israel-unfolded) Is it war you tell me? No, this goes way beyond that.
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This interview is long overdue, as it was done in May, when Orphaned Land played in Paris at the Nouveau Casino (the live report is here, by the way).
It wasn't supposed to be a press conference, but as we were four different interviewers, and because Kobi was recovering from a little cold, we all did the interview together, with Kobi and Yossi answering our many questions.
Press:
A Moroccan fan whose name I don't remember (sorry!)
LadyOfDarkness (La Grosse Radio)
Struck (ProgressiveWaves)
Darkside Momo (Metal Storm)
It all started pretty loosely with a discussion going on about which was the first rock band to add oriental music elements to their sound. The Moroccan fan thought it was Les Variations, a 'French' band with Jewish Moroccan members. Kobi didn't know about them, but either stuck with The Beatles after they went to India, or with Erkin Koray, the father of Turkish rock.
Either way, the debate wasn't closed, and we moved on other topics, just after a sidenote by Kobi who remarked that "sometimes in Moroccan spiritual or magic rituals, they dance in a way that really reminds headbanging. You know what I mean? Like Sufis?"
Moroccan fan: Just one other question? In your bio, you say "Jewish Muslim me