Starting to Breathe [Import]

Disc: 1

1. Longing

2. Starting to Breath

3. On Tiptoe

4. Mi Niña Se Fue a la Mar

5. Shoelaces

6. Big Prince

7. Don't Ask If I Love

8. Daniela

9. Happy New-Year Card from Shoshana

10. Que Va Ser de Ti

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Como Tu

2. Liberate

3. Dentro de Tu Alma

4. Paloma Blanca

5. Por Tu Ausencia

6. Seniorita

7. What Will You Do

8. It's You

9. It Will Be Better [Yihye Tov]

10. Liberate Remix

Starting to Breathe,David Broza,RGB,Contemporary Folk,Folk & Traditional,Jewish Folk,Pop,Singer/Songwriter

Average customer rating: Southern Spain to Southern Israel: A Mediterranean Arc

Starting to Breathe David Broza Manufacturer: RGB ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00003PZX6 Release Date: 2001-08-28

Tracks:

1. Longing
2. Starting to Breath
3. On Tiptoe
4. Mi Nie Fue a la Mar
5. Shoelaces
6. Big Prince
7. Don't Ask If I Love
8. Daniela
9. Happy New-Year Card from Shoshana
10. Que Va Ser de Ti
11. Life Is Good Stuff
12. Que Lo Merece

Tracks:

1. Como Tu
2. Liberate
3. Dentro de Tu Alma
4. Paloma Blanca
5. Por Tu Ausencia
6. Seniorita
7. What Will You Do
8. It's You
9. It Will Be Better [Yihye Tov]
10. Liberate Remix

Customer Reviews:

Southern Spain to Southern Israel: A Mediterranean Arc.......2002-09-07

This double CD is a welcome return to form for Broza after suffering a collapsed lung in a car crash. Broza has been Israel's leading exponent of Spain's Nuevo Cancion. This concert set at the Arad Festival in the Judean Desert features guests from Spain such as Manzanita (aka Jose Ortega Heredia) and Pepe (aka Jose Ortega Soto) with some scintillating Flamenco choruses swapped in Spanish and Hebrew. The Spanish guitars riffing off of each other blow sensual delights from the Costa del Sol through the still desert air.

Broza and his lyricist partner Yehonathan Geffen have been doing faithful, if often loosely grafted onto Israeli milieu, Hebrew adaptations of Ortega Heredia's work for years. There is added joy in hearing them get to perform together, bridging the language gap between the guests from Spain and the Israeli audience with Broza's own fluency in Spanish. One hopes Volume 3 in the Massada series will bring the other master of Spain's Nuevo Cancion, Joan Manuel Serrath, to Israel for another anticipated concert meeting. Broza and Geffen have been turning Serrath's hits from Spain into Hebrew household staples, just as they have with Ortega Heredia's work.

Highlights of this long awaited collaboration include "Por Tu Ausencia" and "Paloma Blanca" the latter known in its Hebrew adaptation as "Tzipor M'hapesseth/Sparrow Searching." Broza seems to have borrowed an idea from Lebanon's songwriter Marcel Khalife, whose Arabic song "Asphur/Sparrow" uses the same poetic concept of a bird seeking a safe landing place, free of traps and ambushes. Khalife was writing about the Lebanese and Phalestinians displaced by the Lebanese Civil War and the earlier creation of the State of Israel. Marcel Khalife may have in turn borrowed the idea from exiled Algerian Amazigh (Berber) bard Slimane Azem, who over 30 years ago as the Arabization of North Africa was forcing native Imazighen (Berbers) from their gas,oil & uranium rich lands and outlawing their majority Tamazight language, wrote a song called "Asroukh" which also came from the point of view of a bird seeking a safe place to nest. Palestinian Arabic diva Aml Murkus recently recorded a very powerful version of the Khalife song "Asphur" with both Arab and Jewish musicians. It might be healing to hear an artistic collaboration on this classical, if all too contemporary Mediterranean theme, between Ortega Heredia, Broza, Khalife, Murkus and the host of Amazigh Algerian bards forced into exile for recording their views in their native language of Tamazight. Such a collaboration could blend both eastern and western Mediterranean musical modalities, using all four languages of Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, and Tamazight. The players could use both fretted guitar and fretless oud to find the harmony between western and eastern scales.

This 2-CD set steers clear of duplicating any songs from the first CD recorded live by Broza with a smaller band a few years earlier at Massada. In addition to the adapted repertoire from Spain featuring the special guests mentioned above, along with Laila Malcos and the Jerusalem Salsa Band, Broza has chosen as lead guitarist young Israeli rocker Nimrod Lev, whose own debut CD and follow-up are not yet available outside of Israel.

A gem of a short acoustic lullaby from early in Broza's career, "Srohim/Tangled Shoelaces" gets a rushed treatment early on in the evening, and one wishes Broza could have saved that for a more intimate moment later in the set, and really stretched out on it. "Gluya Shana Tova Min Shoshana/New Year's Card From Shoshana" is a surprising obscure item from Broza's youthful early recordings. The intervening years and depth of experience have prepared Broza to deliver this song in concert with a delicate and sensitive patina that could have only been a shallow pose those many years ago in the studio.

Long before Tom Waits became known as even a cult figure in America as a bohemian be-bopping jazz poet, Broza was adapting Waits's "Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis" into this "Gluya Shana Tova Min Shoshana/New Year's Card from Shoshana" song, re-setting it by the port of Haifa and peopled with Israeli characters as hushed in their desperation and down on their luck. But Broza kept Waits's heartbreakingly melancholy melody, and should have credited the music to Waits on this otherwise beautifully packaged CD that carries all other credits and notes in both Hebrew and English. Come to think of it, given the input from Spain's stars, it might've been nice to see the booklet translated into Spanish as well.

Average customer rating: Southern Spain to Southern Israel: A Mediterranean Arc Broza's comeback album lets his fans start to breathe again This cd will having you breathing again... This cd will having you breathing again...

Starting to Breathe David Broza Manufacturer: RGB ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005RDCN Release Date: 2001-08-28

Tracks:

1. Longing
2. Starting to Breath
3. On Tiptoe
4. Mi Nie Fue a la Mar
5. Shoelaces
6. Big Prince
7. Don't Ask If I Love
8. Daniela
9. Happy New-Year Card from Shoshana
10. Que Va Ser de Ti
11. Life Is Good Stuff
12. Que Lo Merece

Tracks:

1. Como Tu
2. Liberate
3. Dentro de Tu Alma
4. Paloma Blanca
5. Por Tu Ausencia
6. Seniorita
7. What Will You Do
8. It's You
9. It Will Be Better [Yihye Tov]
10. Liberate Remix

Customer Reviews:

Southern Spain to Southern Israel: A Mediterranean Arc.......2002-01-03

As stated by the other reviewers this double CD is a welcome return to form for Broza after suffering a collapsed lung in a car crash. Broza has been Israel's leading exponent of Spain's Nuevo Cancion. This concert set at the Arad Festival in the Judean Desert features guests from Spain such as Manzanita (aka Jose Ortega Heredia) and Pepe (aka Jose Ortega Soto) with some scintillating Flamenco choruses swapped in Spanish and Hebrew. The Spanish guitars riffing off of each other blow sensual delights from the Costa del Sol through the still desert air.

Broza and his lyricist partner Yehonathan Geffen have been doing faithful, if often loosely grafted onto Israeli milieu, Hebrew adaptations of Ortega Heredia's work for years. There is added joy in hearing them get to perform together, bridging the language gap between the guests from Spain and the Israeli audience with Broza's own fluency in Spanish. One hopes Volume 3 in the Massada series will bring the other master of Spain's Nuevo Cancion, Joan Manuel Serrath, to Israel for another anticipated concert meeting. Broza and Geffen have been turning Serrath's hits from Spain into Hebrew household staples, just as they have with Ortega Heredia's work.

Highlights of this long awaited collaboration include "Por Tu Ausencia" and "Paloma Blanca" the latter known in its Hebrew adaptation as "Tzipor M'hapesseth/Sparrow Searching." Broza seems to have borrowed an idea from Lebanon's songwriter Marcel Khalife, whose Arabic song "Asphur/Sparrow" uses the same poetic concept of a bird seeking a safe landing place, free of traps and ambushes. Khalife was writing about the Lebanese and Phalestinians displaced by the Lebanese Civil War and the earlier creation of the State of Israel. Marcel Khalife may have in turn borrowed the idea from exiled Algerian Amazigh (Berber) bard Slimane Azem, who over 30 years ago as the Arabization of North Africa was forcing native Imazighen (Berbers) from their gas,oil & uranium rich lands and outlawing their majority Tamazight language, wrote a song called "Asroukh" which also came from the point of view of a bird seeking a safe place to nest. Palestinian Arabic diva Aml Murkus recently recorded a very powerful version of the Khalife song "Asphur" with both Arab and Jewish musicians. It might be healing to hear an artistic collaboration on this classical, if all too contemporary Mediterranean theme, between Ortega Heredia, Broza, Khalife, Murkus and the host of Amazigh Algerian bards forced into exile for recording their views in their native language of Tamazight. Such a collaboration could blend both eastern and western Mediterranean musical modalities, using all four languages of Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, and Tamazight. The players could use both fretted guitar and fretless oud to find the harmony between western and eastern scales.

This 2-CD set steers clear of duplicating any songs from the first CD recorded live by Broza with a smaller band a few years earlier at Massada. In addition to the adapted repertoire from Spain featuring the special guests mentioned above, along with Laila Malcos and the Jerusalem Salsa Band, Broza has chosen as lead guitarist young Israeli rocker Nimrod Lev, whose own debut CD and follow-up are not yet available outside of Israel.

A gem of a short acoustic lullaby from early in Broza's career, "Srohim/Tangled Shoelaces" gets a rushed treatment early on in the evening, and one wishes Broza could have saved that for a more intimate moment later in the set, and really stretched out on it. "Gluya Shana Tova Min Shoshana/New Year's Card From Shoshana" is a surprising obscure item from Broza's youthful early recordings. The intervening years and depth of experience have prepared Broza to deliver this song in concert with a delicate and sensitive patina that could have only been a shallow pose those many years ago in the studio.

Long before Tom Waits became known as even a cult figure in America as a bohemian be-bopping jazz poet, Broza was adapting Waits's "Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis" into this "Gluya Shana Tova Min Shoshana/New Year's Card from Shoshana" song, re-setting it by the port of Haifa and peopled with Israeli characters as hushed in their desperation and down on their luck. But Broza kept Waits's heartbreakingly melancholy melody, and should have credited the music to Waits on this otherwise beautifully packaged CD that carries all other credits and notes in both Hebrew and English. Come to think of it, given the input from Spain's stars, it might've been nice to see the booklet translated into Spanish as well.

Broza's comeback album lets his fans start to breathe again.......2001-12-22

Please excuse the cliche, but I would imagine that a whole lot of people held their breathe in August, 1998 when David Broza was seriously injured in an auto accident which damaged his left hand with paralysis, broke his collar bone, and punctured a lung (as per newspaper reports). I have heard that a whole US tour and major CD release were put on hold. Well, no one should fear...one year later and David was back to his usual top form! This CD is Broza's triumphant return to his yearly concert at Massada in Israel where he lets it rip once again in many cultural and musical styles. Not many people here have heard Israeli rock, blues, folk and "lounge lizard" (like on "Postcard From Shoshana")as David does them. Just when you think you know his style on comes The Jerusalem Salsa Band (A salsa band from Jersusalem? OY!), Pepe, and Manzanita - and you have a whole different sound. A favorite is "You Ask If I Love", a very sweet love song. But my ultimate favorite is Broza's "Yiheye Tov"(It Will Be Better), a very heartfelt and haunting song about his wish for Middle East peace. The amazing thing is that this man has been singing this "prayer" over 20 years. Oh, that it will be answered soon....

Also check out David's other live CD, Live at Massada (sorry I forgot the date it was released). You will enjoy it as well.

Not to nitpick, but my CD is printed Massada '99: Starting to Breathe Again - not the Massada '98 you have listed.

This cd will having you breathing again..........2001-10-24

"Starting to Breath" marks the return of David Broza to the live stage after a serious traffic accident in August 1998. The album was recorded during a six hour concert that began at midnight and ended with the sun rising behind the virtuoso guitarist, singer, and composer as he performed at the bottom of the Massada fortress, an ancient site located in Israel, next to the Jordan river. This album begins with sensuous,slower songs of self-investigation and discovery, mostly in connection with love, and climbs, gradually, to a breathtaking pace. David Broza welcomes Nimrod Lev, Manzinata (well known Spanish composer) and the Jerusalem Salsa Band. The music of this album encompasses the spirit of Spanish and Israeli folk music, the lyrics come from the finest Spanish and Hebrew poets. Broza also introduces, for the first time, lyrics that he wrote.

Listening to this live performance, you will involuntarily experience every possible emotion - even if you don't understand the words.

The timing of this release is especially important - it will bring listeners a sense of joy and healing in these difficult times.

This cd will having you breathing again..........2001-10-24

"Starting to Breath" marks the return of David Broza to the live stage after a serious traffic accident in August 1998. The album was recorded during a six hour concert that began at midnight and ended with the sun rising behind the virtuoso guitarist, singer, and composer as he performed at the bottom of the Massada fortress, an ancient site located in Israel, next to the Jordan river. This album begins with sensuous,slower songs of self-investigation and discovery, mostly in connection with love, and climbs, gradually, to a breathtaking pace. David Broza welcomes Nimrod Lev, Manzinata (well known Spanish composer) and the Jerusalem Salsa Band. The music of this album encompasses the spirit of Spanish and Israeli folk music, the lyrics come from the finest Spanish and Hebrew poets. Broza also introduces, for the first time, lyrics that he wrote.

Listening to this live performance, (as with all of Broza's records in English, Spanish and Hebrew (...)), you will involuntarily experience every possible emotion - even if you don't understand the words.

The timing of this release is especially important - it will bring listeners a sense of joy and healing in these difficult times.

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