"Everything is written in my blood"

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The fucking robbery in America that shook her life, the frustration of not conquering the world, her dramas with her musician partner and the decision to be fully exposed in the songs: Before launching a new album on the show on January 15th in Barbie, Danielle Spector came to sing and speak candidly in the Walla studio! NEWS. Watch

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Danielle Spector's debut album featured the song "Exclusive Sleep", a seemingly sweet love song, but those who listened to it were shocked to discover the line: "Love me so violently, leave me marks." Similarly, in this wonderful new album, "In the Beginning," which is currently released, there is the song "America," which draws America from an Israeli perspective. If you do not listen carefully - do not notice that he has a violent and difficult robbery, which Spector really experienced in South Carolina at the age of 21. This shaky experience made her question how safe this world is.

I say this to the Spector hosted at Walla Studio! NEWS. "I didn't think about it, but now that you mention 'Sleep Without', it really touches on something that I think is important to me throughout all the songs I've written, from the first album to this album, and it just got worse," she says. Touching places they may not be so aesthetically pleasing or not like talking about. 'Exclusive sleep' talks about parity. This was the first time I've ever experienced parity life. More aggressive aspects are part of couples. I didn't want to speak out loud. Being in the tough places, it can be in the delicate places, and in the new album, when I wrote 'America.' It took me a lot of years to mature and A same song and get him out. "

The full interview with Danielle Spector at Walla Studio! NEWS

"At age 21, I was in America for a whole year. I experienced a lot of meetings and shows there. Like a lot of young people after an army, I went to America to make money. There was a record of violent robbery that happened to me and a few other people who were with me. , And processing the experience and the right to talk about it out loud. We went after work hours to the store manager's apartment. Then, apparently, bandits doing some surveillance came, tied us up in the apartment, took the store manager to the store, and robbed it. It was actually a whole evening, a couple of hours like that, we weren't worried about my life, but it was a long moment of existential question. The existence of sanity. Many years I have been in this thing. I think the restriction five minutes of the song made me make the essence of this story. "

In the past, in one album you hid behind songs on bears and stars, and in another album you hid behind English poetry. The cliche that is often said by singers and musicians, "This album is always personal," is true in your case. Tell us about this process.

"I've always used the materials of life for the songs, and I've always used the songs to help myself in life. From the first songs, everything was written in blood. Say in the song 'Hiroshima' has the refrain 'We saved ourselves in our hands.' But what has changed over the years is some courage, I dare to say it at face value and really not to hide behind images nor English, and if there is a robbery I want to talk about, then I will put it in song. "Then I'll leave it in song, with all the vibe and room and the sounds of it. Just put it in a more exposed way."

Danielle Spector performs the song "In the beginning" in the Walla studio! NEWS

On the new album Spector has collaborated with many artists including Alon Luttringer, Tomer Isaiah, Alon Hader and Jane Bordeaux - the latter two will also be hosting the album's launch show on the 15th of the month. Some of the songs were self-produced. But this is the first album where her husband, the talented musician Ben, doesn't share it. "We've actually been working together before we've been together, for more than 15 years," she says. "We were really refined and we were very good, but I felt, and I think he, too, felt that we had reached some sort of exhaustion of our abilities together. I was personally hungry for different ways to make music, different ways of looking at myself as a singer. Or how to work with drums. And it worked for us, but once it became familiar, it was already exciting and renewed. So it was very clear that in this album I got to meet other people and also meet myself through other situations. And that's what I created for myself in this album. , From song to song I made encounters with all the people you mentioned, who I knew but not really cool B. Creation process brings together people in the most intimate and most revealing way. I kept myself from meeting people for years in this place. My partner was the only one who almost ever entered these areas. This is the first time I've dared to be exposed to people like this, and to hear opinions and creative language that is not my own. And that reminded me of this girl who has been married for many years and then goes out to a vacant market. And how do you talk about a date? What's right?

You told me in an interview before that you and your husband were, sometimes, jealous.

"Much more than that! It's a creative process. Both me and Ben went into this heart with all that heart. So the things that get in the way, they get in the way. And the dramas that happen can lead to explosions. The difficulty was, they were reserved for the studio, and we also learned to overcome it in the studio.

The dramas and cries were reserved for the studio. Danielle Spector (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Danielle Spector at Walla Studio, January 7, 2020 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

You cover Bob Dylan's classic "Heavy Rain" classic. What connected you to the song set by the Rolling Stones as the best protest song?

"This song corresponds to almost every present, it's an anti-war song and so it always has relevance. The first thing that connected me to this song is the performance of Petty Smith at the Nobel Prize ceremony. Dylan didn't get the award he was awarded. , Which gave the song a broken and so bare performance. It's a performance I don't think she's proud of, because it stopped a few times and then came back to the song. But when I heard that performance, I stopped the car and it caught me. This song in a feminine voice, not too young, gave some validity to mothers. I saw this in Hebrew too. Whoever translated the song is Jonathan Geffen, and whoever performed it in the past The Danish Litany and Spring Vine, and I haven't really heard a maternal female version of this song. "

Over the years you have incorporated quite a few biblical elements - the song "Abraham", "Leviathan" with the echo of Jonah the Prophet and the new album has "Psalm for David". What motivated you to connect to the roots?

"I think it's an unconscious process. For all of us here, blood is flowing in the local mythology, which is Bible stories. We learn them from a very young age. And these stories are kind of odyssey, big, terrible processes that go through people. Think of both Abraham and King David. I also love that works resonate with other pieces of content. It gives some more depth. "

Validity of Mothers. Danielle Spector (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Danielle Spector at Walla Studio, January 7, 2020 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The song "Pearls" in the new album was written by you especially for the end of the show, the moment you move to the other side, of the audience. What does this moment mean to you?

"There's something about the show, that with all the intimacy and connection created with the audience, I'm still on stage and they're down there."

In the theater, it is called the "Esthetic Distance".

"And a lot of times I don't see them because of the lighting and because of the situation. They see me and I see darkness. I wanted to break this thing. I'm not the first to do it, a lot of artists come out to the audience. But I didn't really have a song that gave me the excuse to do it "So I actually wrote the song from a place of imagining this situation that I'm going out to the audience. So, at first, it was written for that purpose, but it took me a while to see that people were excited about it and that it was also telling something of interest to me. And suddenly it got valid in its own right."

Is on stage and they are down there. Danielle Spector (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Danielle Spector at Walla Studio, January 7, 2020 (Photo: Reuven Castro)

The song "Cut it Out" from Danielle and Ben Spector's joint album reached a high spot on the decade-long parade of Nadav Menuchin here, in Walla! Culture, and in particular, Spector has been highly regarded over the years. However, she recently said that at the beginning of the road she was aiming for some stadium and did not think it would appear in small venues, as it did eventually. You sometimes have a miss from the stadium that didn't arrive, I ask Spector. "I think it's mixed. That feeling that the sky is the limit, when you start the road, it's a kind of mixing of young Swiss, and there is something about it that is terribly true because you start with all the power and ambition and you aim the most. Along the way you have to see what is there and enjoy what it is, which is something that has taken me many years because I was constantly moving forward and it made me not settle for what is happening. And if there is something that may have changed in the last two or three years, it is that I am really beginning to rejoice and love. And say thank you for everything there is. And there are quite a few. "

With or without a stadium, what is your big professional dream?

"My dream in a way doesn't change that much over the years, but it does change. My dream is always to come to a song and a musical piece that is perfect in the sense that it embodies exactly what I want to bring, exactly the musical taste and the whole experience. Countless throughout the songs I put out, I keep trying to come up with a more complete product, something that better embodies how I hear music and how I experience it, first and foremost what drives me - to create the next song that will be more exciting and complete. Something I've been doing for years, being more accurate and more touchy about this mysterious thing there is in Musi The ".

Watch over Danielle Spector's stay at Walla Studio! NEWS to interview and perform wonderful poetry "In the beginning"

Create the next song that will be exciting and complete? Danielle Spector (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Danielle Spector at Walla Studio, January 7, 2020 (Photo: Reuven Castro)