"Suddenly words of love, peace and hope came out to me."
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"Even if there are things bigger than me, that doesn't mean it's bigger than me, I have spirit even if my strength has already been lost," writes singer and musician Omer Moskovitz in the powerful single "Things Bigger than Me" from her third album, "Iron Hearts".
The album, which comes out today (Tuesday), was born as a response to the great pain of the Gaza war.
Two months ago Moskovitz was supposed to release a completely different album, "Championship" his name, which was already almost completely ready.
Then the war broke out, she decided to put the album aside, quickly wrote a new album, in a step she defines as "first aid for my soul", and returned to the studio to record it.
The album - from which the single "Emotional Eating" was also released - will be launched in a week, on February 6, at a concert at the Gray Club in Tel Aviv.
"The album that was created before the Gaza war and I put it on Hold actually didn't feel disconnected to me," Moskovitz tells Walla!
culture.
"He somehow absorbed what happened and is happening, like wars, but I think this album was a little more than me. After October 7, I felt that I needed to increase the optimism and love as a contrast to what was happening. Suddenly words of love, peace and hope came out to me. Words I wouldn't have written before, and after the war broke out, I thought about it more."
Along with her desire to reduce the protest, the album "Hearts of Iron" also has a poignant statement.
It happens in one of the most beautiful moments on the album - a remake of the song "Mother" by Yankala Rotblit and Shmulik Kraus, in which she hosts the spoken word artist Yonatan Kunda, who delivers, among other things, the words: About the honey and milk that was spilled here, in the Zion palaces on the floor of another kitchen and another political cabinet in it, because of many laws we have forgotten - what is the point of mercy."
"I can't change the world, but I can return to believing in love."
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"I don't believe that revenge is the way," says Moskovitz.
"I wish he would find a real solution to this matter. This song is an attempt to return to innocence. Throughout the album, there is a very great effort to return to love, to innocence, to some kind of self-work. Because the anger, the insult, and the disappointment are so burning and strong, that it is terribly difficult to return to some kind of innocence, and in the end I felt that this The work I have to do. I can't change the world but I can go back to believing in love. Part of the problem is that 'peace' has become a derogatory word, and I would like people to continue to believe in peace, love and hope."
In the new album, Moshkovitz also hosts Asia Greenberg, a resident of Kibbutz Bari, with whom she wrote a song.
"Asia wrote to me right after October 7 and asked if I could send her playbacks of my music, because she really likes my music," says Moskovitz, "of course I sent her, and then we met and it turned out that she studied music, and that she wrote some things After October 7th. I took her words and we did some ping pong on the words, and a writer on the French channel Arte covered our meeting. During the war I performed for evacuees in the Dead Sea, after at first I could hardly sing. My head was not connected and I could hardly do the task This. Suddenly I saw the reality in front of my eyes. It seems to me like a crazy thing that cannot be overcome at all. I feel that as time passed, they gave me hope that this too can be overcome. I saw how little by little we all suddenly became better, somehow. No Obviously how. I saw that as time goes by, this power of life is a crazy thing. I had never witnessed it before. What a crazy animal, the human being. Can go through crazy things and still stay alive, see the good and listen to music. It seemed crazy to me that Asia would leave I got a message a day or two after October 7. I was very surprised by how quickly she knew what would do her good."
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The new album is accompanied by a network series you created, "Soldout".
In the last and amusing episode, you consult with your public relations person, Yaron Cohen, and tell him, among other things: "I feel, Yaron, that my self-pity has no place. Because I must not feel in danger because everyone has it harder than me."
"Actually, we all have survivor's guilt somewhere. Everyone feels like shit. And then suddenly, when I allow myself to feel like shit, immediately after that I judge myself. I feel more than once that I can't wallow in self-pity. It's natural to feel self-pity sometimes and it's also Part of what a person feels, but I feel stuck in some kind of loop. All the time there is the encounter with this reality. If I stop to think about things I will fall very hard."
About the song "Bigger things than me" Moshkovitz says: "We are actually judging the world all the time. It is good, it is bad, it should be done this way and that way. As soon as we say that it should be done this way and that way, we don't make room for inner work. I felt that there are things that are bigger than me, Everything became big on me. All the criticism from every direction. The violence. I was in a situation where I don't know. Maybe I shouldn't know. That doesn't mean I won't get through this period. It's a prayer to myself right now. Songs are many times smarter than us. I don't always know Why do I write what I write - but this is a place to heal the pain."
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"Prayer to myself".
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In March, it will be 20 years since the release of Ronit and Shlomi Elkavetz's movie "Take a Wife", in which you played Ronit's daughter as a child, and later this year it will be the 60th anniversary of the birth of the late Ronit. What remains engraved in you from participating in the film?
"Ronit really left an impression on me.
This is some kind of character that went with me and only in my adulthood I realized how much I was influenced and admired her.
I really liked her.
She was very motherly towards me before and during the filming on the set.
She had no children then and she called me 'my girl, my girl'.
I felt a lot of pride.
Of course her death was very difficult for me.
I didn't know she was sick because we hadn't been in touch for many years.
Not long ago I saw Shlomi, we talked and hugged."
You are signed to the hit song "Azetot". What is the best advice you received from your parents, prominent figures in the world of culture - the playwright Shlomi Moskovitz and the director Dedi Baron?
"My father always told me: 'Just do the work your'.
There is the surrounding, there is whether it was accepted or not.
He would always tell me 'do your job'.
I really relate to it and it really accompanies me.
I feel that over time I am more and more committed to my vocation.
Even in the war now, I feel that it is not a choice and it is not a privilege - but something I have to do.
This is my contract with the devil, it's not always easy, but I feel that I should just do my job, what I'm ordered to do, and look as little as possible to the sides.
And my mother has no advice for me.
She is the most amazing thing that has happened in the world, and she only picks me up and only tells me how best and wonderful I am."
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