Mordechai Ben David "Tzeakah" Z Report Interview with Yossi Zweig 6/14/17

with me via telephone as mentioned all the way from Seagate New York here to discuss his latest album the album that is taking the World by storm enough so that people are running to their stores to buy it SOA ladies and gentlemen the one and only Mor David hello hello Yi how are you you know M I was just thinking the other day I went online and I was trying to figure out when was the last time that we did an interview believe it or not it was in 2009 where we did a three-part video When You released kulah now we're coming round circle to the first time of you on my show and I'm I'm just happy that it's all coming around so talk to me abouta what do you want to know tell me I want to know why why Saka why now 13 tracks it's been a while since you released your last album I believe it was about three and a half years ago uh that word made its way to us in the music industry that you were in ER working with yly Dickman mhm and three years ago three years ago summer three years ago summer um and then I heard you were working with yle and then all of a sudden I get 13 tracks and I only see Yi's working on one of those tracks so what happened two of the tracks so what happened in the inter uh it's a long complicated story but to make it bitu I started working with Yi we recorded 12 songs and uh simultaneously I didn't know about y y didn't know about me he didn't know I was working on this album so he went he recorded as a surprise to me he recorded 18 songs for me wow so we had 30 songs now with Yi I recorded in Israel all the music and all the choirs and many of the vocals as well my vo my vocals when I came back I was listening to the choir and the choir although sounded beautiful but the color of the choir was not what I'm used to I'm used to the color of Shir which has a certain warmth that it was lacking so I brought down it took a while but I brought down y to New York when he was not not as busy as he is usually he came down uh he came on a Sunday morning and he left on Thursday afternoon back to is RO and in that week we sat in the studio with intensity and we recorded we added to the choir that existed just to give more the call that I wanted the entire album he was recording on on a small hard drive which is a big no no so anybody's listening out there that records music you should know you never record on a small hard drive no Portables Allowed no Portables in middle of the last song his hard drive crashed and he lost all the information wow he went back to and he was looking for a company which took us a while till he found the company it was able to retrieve it but they told him it's going to take a long time and that long time took a half year we got all the information but it took a half year and I don't have to tell you how frustrating it is when you're working on on a project and suddenly you can't you can't move on in the interim I started getting songs from Ellie Clin and Y berry which I fell in love with I really liked what they were doing and um and their turnaround was was instantly like like a mish hair of iron I asked them to to to send me a demo so I can record it in St see what it sounds like within a day I had everything wow so every time they sent me a song I I just got it I got it instantly so I said well that's the way to go instead of waiting a half year for to retrieve a choir so between the between all that was going on we had like 40 45 songs recorded 45 songs yeah 40 45 I don't remember the exact number but I got I got a ton of stuff a ton of material from from uh from Ellie Klein I Berry as well and then then I decided to to start doing vocals on whatever was not done yet and and from that I decided to choose the the songs that that I felt was best for this project oh being I had so many songs instead of putting on 10 which is the usual I decided I I got to put at least 13 well as a fan I appreciate the extra songs but as an as a somebody who I would say knows a little bit about Mor and David and his his recording style you tend to always from what I remember always over over record more than 10 songs per album before you actually put them on correct yeah but that's just a few extra songs not not this many never had never recorded 40 songs no totally totally out of line and uh just to mention to those to the listeners that the many many people have asked about iTunes why hasn't been on iTunes we had complications with the companies that do the uploading to iTunes for some reason they uh I don't know if it has to do with with only the Jewish religion but anything that does not have that doesn't have an English title on the front cover they refuse to uh refuse to upload so've going back and forth with different companies it was on for like two hours and went back off and the pricing was wrong but we hope that within the next day or two it should be up and running properly that's our we looking forward I wanted you to know that I pre-ordered it believe it or not and the feedback has been incredibly incredible people are like off the hook messages text messages whatsapps and and and emails and phone calls it it's just I've never had anything like this before I tell you something another phenomenon that that that's H has happened in the last couple of days I've gotten several requests from people who said they have the album they love the album and uh but they got it on a WhatsApp group and they know it's not fair so one guy wrote to me he says you know it's very interesting that people would appreciate an album and listen to it over and over again they got it on a WhatsApp group and they wouldn't spend the $10 which is something that have they have an know from constantly over and over and over again right the guy walks in the guy one guy wrote to me guy walks into a pizza shop to eat lunch it cost him $10 and he enjoys it for 10 minutes and then he'll probably get a stomach ache but this is something that a guy will listen to over and over and over again and and everyone knows and understands the kind of money and the effort and hours and endless hours that goes into an album why wouldn't a person have the SE to pay $10 so this guy requested he said I finally got your phone number it took me six people to get to you but I want to pay for it that was the first guy then we got from other people that say we'd like to pay we got it from the WhatsApp group and we feel it's not fair to you or to the people who are produce it and we want to pay for it right so actually because of that we we set up an account a Chase quick pay account really called pmbd gmail.com and people started it's unbelievable people are Mish responding and I guess they feel guilty for some reason some some people some people still have some some guilt feeling and and it's pouring in people are paying I wonder if you're going to get more payments come L time it's amazing amazing truly amazing so Mor I've been going through your album I see three songs from you five songs from Ellie Klein two songs from y fukes two songs from Yosi green I don't even know where to begin I mean you've been composing for so many years um and I'm still amazed by it I wanted to mention the song that you composed That You released for your granddaughter's wedding when needle's daughter got married Bo kala now I actually went back online because this was released as a single and I listened to it the original song That You released then not only didn't have the same Arrangement you didn't have yle there doing this oan yeah it came came along with the new Arrangements that's and you know what it adds so much more flavor and and it's amazing that you you compose the song you know at the time of that and over here the father of the Kal is you know getting to add a little bit of a a TI I guess up in a little bit of Harmony absolutely yeah and from what I've been hearing people have playing this at hna's literally left and right yeah I just got a just got a clip someone sent me a clip from last night's some some wedding with shiru singing with with a big F band and uh that's the song they were singing yeah they been singing every night all over the place speaking about Clips I mean this album is out literally a week and a day a week and two days it came out last Sunday and already I saw three or four videos yesterday yish put up a song I think singing uh there there like songs going up yeah yes all the time it's amazing and it's funny because I you know I I was with yussi maybe four or five years ago I believe and we were doing a composer Workshop in his house and he introduced us to this song and I was you know I kept waiting when is it going to be an album when is it going to be an album I never thought it would take this long but the arrangement and the emotion that you're you're singing evokes you know the vocals it's it it truly touches the heart actually this is Arrangement uh I don't know how how how much you're involved in the uh what was going on and behind the scenes there was a different Arrangement which was written by amik Coen originally yes yes he did tell me that and that's the one that uh someone stole off my phone at the night that I recorded the choir someone took my phone in in Israel asked me for a I need need a phone for a favor he went outside stepped outside for a second and sent it to himself and that same day it was all over the Internet so that thing was was beyond and therefore we decided to redo redo the arrangements so this part of Army's Arrangement still left there ell Klein and and yid and linski they they they doctor up K Kus and but actually the concept of the new Arrangement was was shls really he yeah the concept of the opening with the the acoustic guitars and have it more of a soft Arrangement that was she's she's idea yeah always always comes up with brilliant stuff it's an amazing song and it has such a great story behind it uh you know the the reason why you you compose the song Who You compos who's y comp compos the song for and that uh you know Orin this is like this is like one of those you know an ofam stories you know you and Yosi just have this this uh something about you I cannot say you know that just you guys work and you come up with these amazing songs now you were saying you needed the Shir choir for the AL can you tell me maybe why this song you left it with mogam and not with Shar uh well the reason this this when we were working on the original Arrangement right I that was that was in Israel and uh was working with with Moshi rot with the monogam on I did a series of concerts with them right and I it was like a last minute ditch I said you know what I I love the way he does choirs let me do one song with him because he's he's got a special touch he's got his own flavor and actually the choirs were recorded on the original Arrangement and then we adopted it we used it for the uh for the new Arrangement wow there's a little bit of behind the scenes you didn't know about with me via telephone David from Seagate discussing his latest album in stores now available mostly music.com going on iTunes as morai says any day now and again if you download it illegally what is it paym at gmail.com for uh QuickPay pay MBD gmail.com and mor let me ask you if somebody has ever stolen an album for you can he can he get back into the good graces can he do the right thing by paying now or is it only for the new album uh they can do for anything actually but I always people have always asked me said you know I I feel guilty like before sh comes to people feel guilty right get go you know it's funny I remember this I I I downloaded your album how can I repay you so before we have this setup which is just recent I used to say go to iTunes and download it so right I'll get paid I wanted to tell you it's funny because I remember discussing with gonine years ago that you know if you bought his album and you wanted to make a copy for your car or for you know the house or for the office you know whether it was allowed or not allowed where do you stand on that M so I recently it's it's it's interesting you mentioning it because recently I saw a write up from I don't remember who it was but someone had asked rakov kineski uh personally if he says I bought an album can I make a copy for myself so Yakov said no I think he said that belki said is not a problem so today's day and age where we have this this sharing if purple person buys from iTunes muscle so all his all his Apple equipment will automatically get syn up so I guess in today's day and age it's very hard to say that a person bought an album you can't download you can't make a copy for yourself but that's that's the matus of people listen to in the car people listen at home in the office I wanted to talk to you about y fukes you uh got introduced to him before your your your most recent album of course he did the big hit on your last album two two very different compositions from him on this album first off we have the song uh dedicated to your father by the way I I believe the last time I saw you in person was at that Shiva and I want to tell you that I was I was inspired by some of the amazing stories that I heard just in the little bit of time that I was there and uh and I got got to tell you you know I'm sure this must have been like one of the hardest things for you to do like how do you put you know some of your father's life in just one song that's what three or four minutes it's seven minutes but it's still still condensed it's a condensed Wikipedia of my father's life basically when 3 36 years ago Mother Leon passed away M I did a memory song which was also devoted to her correct right so actually this song was brought to me by oh this is one of the the little gift one of the 18 songs that record and he had in mind that's exactly what he wanted he wanted a song from my father so he had this this Melody from who did the arrangement and uh when he came back we needed lyrics so who's the number one man in lyrics the only one in yeah leap definitely came down to the house and in no time he he's sober I told him exactly what I like to write in of course he didn't know my father the well he knew him but he didn't know him personally and this is more of a personal thing about his his his personal life so he uh he knocked it out m one two3 so quick it's it's amazing he's he's really really brilliant he's very talented in many many things and now he's into painting and sculptures and uh you know I think I think people tend to forget that that he started off as you know one of the number one bat and this is his wheelhouse you know this is where he he thrives being able to rhyme you know write amazing Yiddish one after another oh on the spot on the spot on the spot he was at y y's daughter's wedding he was he did the the mitv he he he was fascinating fascinating that could be an album right there some of the some of the even the good ones you they'll have a little settle and they have you know little notes and stuff he just off off the cuff boom one after the other so I wanted to tell you that I was listening to your album Sunday when we went on a family outing and we got to this song and my wife turns to me in the middle and she's like it's amazing how he he phrased certain things you know softer and and the way you did the phrasing that it just emok so much emotion from from the song you know without having to you know go to the high notes or the low notes just the way the softness of your voice that it just brought out the whole message and I I just wanted to thank you for that because we we enjoyed listening to it now the otheruk song totally different very much in the flavor that we have come to know known him but with so much more because Y what Yi Dickman did with this song I think is spectacular it's it's almost soundtrackyoutube Broadway style of an arrangement that uh I mean the the the lyrics of the song are very very deep the nov you saying that uh hashem's going to send you hunger but you're not going to hunger for actual food but you're gonna you're going to hunger for Tyran for the words of Hashem did he go through several different arrangements so this was the first thing he came up with no this is the first thing he came up with it's interesting this song actually uh I spent I spent one evening with is fuks in Los Angeles byet a little kumit in his house and um he's just he started playing this song and I I was like wow what is this song he said this is it's an old song I recorded this 30 years ago you want to take it I said I'm taking it you better believe it amazing amazing morab and David with us via telephone talking about his latest album Saka in stores now soon to be on iTunes Amazon music M I must applaud you I I know that you know singers I guess of your stature or have been around for that much time you know don't like technology but the fact that that you opened up social media in the last 2 three months and you you know you upload these messages uh whether they're you know inspiring whether they reti whether they're just to give people updates in your album this is something I feel you know was missing you know when I run freed started too also I know you guys don't manage it you know but you have a team managing it for you but I think you'll see that people like to reciprocate and give you their opinion you know or thank you and this is the best medium to do that yeah the reason I uh actually the reason I started it was because there was so many phony MBD out there counts people claiming to be me and posting all kinds of stuff which no to to what I am or to what I would like to be so I I basically have the choice I had I had to put out a a uh social media place where I where I can say what I can say that's in today's world that's how Trump became president definitely but I'm I'm I'm happy that the medium is there and I'm happy that people can now comment to you in real time uh I know you got to go soon so we're going to we're going to finish up this interview um Yi green another song but but uh for me some of the more intricate or more interesting songs I would say lyrically and Arrangement wise probably would be track 11 which would be bar bski and yol's Ash is okay the lyrics are not you know I mean I don't there probably is a couple of Ash ises uh I don't know if you I don't know if you you realize that this this this album has a song which is the first p ofm and has a song which is the last P of I did this is the first BK which one's the last B by the way one of my listeners was very he he was he he didn't know if he should be upset or not cuz I I announced the song as K and then I played the song and I bumped into him in the street here in Lakewood his name is Yoni and he goes why did you s why did you call the song call Nama I said what did I say wrong he said it's called Al Nima I said I said I'm looking at the book here I have in front of me it's called K he's like I'm telling you it should be called Alima so this isn't a mistake is it no because the chorus is is the of course it's called the message that's what teach on this after 70 years of his life the last thing that he said was every breath we take we should thank the we take things for granted person wakes up in the morning he opens up his eyes his hands his feet everything is working that's that's why say we wake up but we don't realize that every breath we take is is something to be thankful for you go into a hospital and see people on on traes and and oxygen and whatnot every breath is like is a struggle work around day and night thanking for every breath amazing amazing just you you worked it backwards though you started off with the last the last part of the and then you almost ended with the beginning a little bit of a because because the last because the last p is the most important message it's like and every breath so before you start an album you should know that every breath is thankful to you know you know what's funny you should say that M because I was listening to track 13 the other day and it's it's really it's really becoming one of my fast favorites and here's something that I wanted to discuss with you a lot of listeners are under the perception that the the last tracks on the album are the ones that the singer really wanted to kind of you know like hide at the end and and bury but people like me and you who are in the industry know that the last track is actually the opposite because I'm want to give you something so tasteful at the end that you're going to start the CD all over again so how how easy or how how hard was it to decide to put he hav as the last track I'll tell you something this particular album there was you know was always a a question of placement where do he put this song dancing the other song M and if you'll notice take a song like which is a phenomenal phenomenal song where is it all the way towards the end why because it doesn't matter this album every single song is so good that no matter where you put the song is great but y decided to put he ofum the last song because everything said and done we have to remember yeah now it's a good I gotta tell you the the arrangement for this song is it's just something else uh by the way this this this song was recorded uh with with laer at the uh Shen album so this 20 years ago yeah this is almost 15 years old then yeah this is left over sh from that album wow and see sh is good no matter when you get him it tastes good yes um listener David in Australia says that technically you haven't left fans open for three years because you appeared on schlom HUD Shear volume one she volume two uh recently you were on S Silverstein's k Kim so he wants to know if this this means that we're going to see more uh duets team ups in the future for M and David H we we we roll with the punches whatever Hashem has in store that's what that's the way we go so I don't know I don't I don't we don't plan ahead whatever hasem will bring my way I will do I mle to do the right way well it's a perfect answer listener of Roman Staten irand says he wants to know if one of the songs that didn't make the album you know but there you have them recorded that you're going to use in the future was a song from SCH no no interesting okay good to know I'm I'm just curious to ask you a question as follows a lot of singers have said in recent years that it's it's hard to find good songs and that's why albums are taking longer you just told me you recorded 46 songs so I guess you don't feel that that's the case no I I I hear what they're saying it's true but um it's like everything El to get the right songs you heard the story I told you before that I was in a total different direction yes and suddenly songs started coming in from M Klein and and Y berry and I said wow this is phenomenal stuff so so to end with you you barem got all that material back from your Ellie Dickman correct yeah so now we have what three more albums worth of Mory and David music we'll see we'll see we'll see what happens and you won't have to work so hard because you never know you I may get better songs coming my way who knows no M I've always wondered You released an an album kind of like an MP3 collection called the plat I think it was called Platinum Collection you remember this was a few years ago um that they were calling this the the MBD quote unquote Vault now like we said before you've always recorded a couple of extra songs when when uh doing an album is the the fans or the Jewish music World At Large ever going to hear some of those songs that didn't making on those albums or are those forever going to be in the morab and David Vault I don't know it's very hard to call these shots it's it's like just like he was was in the vault and it popped out interesting there are the songs that may pop out as well that's good to know M what would you say was the last song you recorded on this album the last song I actually recorded on this album M the last song vocally vocally or no to come to you to be completed you know to be okay this is going to be this song just came in it's amazing this will be the last song making up the 13as really yeah let's talk about k a second I I had I I I was already locked on my said okay enough I have so many songs enough and then suddenly he sent me K whoa this is something completely from left field and totally different and and and it has special something special in it and we recorded it yeah it's funny because people always talk about songs that are coming out whether you know the lyrics have been used again and again or their new lyrics so you know that's been used before the the song about your father obviously never used before used before even used before never brand new so it's it's uh I guess you don't have that same feeling of of using words that were used before as long as the Melody I guess is giving it new meaning yes absolutely we uh is is very very against doing songs that have been recorded before and it's interesting know people send me songs all the time people who think they know how their composers or whatever I I haven't come across other than from Ellie Klein I really haven't come across song that I can say yeah this is really good but people send all the time I get emails from from right and from left one of the main things that people don't understand is that if you're going to do a song that that has been out there and it was a great song so if what are you competing against you think you have a better one unless you have something that's really so much WoW better why I have people send me songs or many songs that were very famous and great great songs so what are you bringing to the table St biggy bumbles so that there's probably two answers to that you have some composers that they stom look for Words once they have a Melody so with that case I agree with you but to a composer who probably composed a song while they were at that point let's say in daving or toim then you know the melody came together with the words it's a lot harder for them to separate it and try to put other words to it maybe should have more so Kev one one of these most uh most most interesting songs in the album M let me ask you since Ellie Clan anberry did the arrangement and Ellie composed it was the demo close to the final Arrangement or was it like night and day it was very very it was based on the original Arrangement basically the the the entire Arrangement is there but it was it was technically en with with the different sounds maybe and stuff like that but but the arrangement is the same that they' made now M since the last time I spoke to you you uh you kind of made a you're you're at least half a year from what I hear in N what's that like not yes not yet not yet not almost half a year what is it no no no we purchased an apartment which is not ready yet right and as soon as it'll be ready I we'll start to think of how long we'll be there and how long will be here but you know it's we not there yet okay but but you getting there you're getting closer closer to the dream one one of the things that I discuss with listeners I see listener m in Baltimore just asked me when morab and David is gonna have a concert in New York and I like to tell this to listeners I'm sure you're going to agree with me just because MBD isn't doing a concert in the tri-state area or in Toronto or Montreal doesn't mean that you're not doing concerts you're you're still going around the world performing throughout the year at at Simas or yum or or pesak programs correct yes B was been a very busy year and I'm very thankful and grateful to for that's been beyond my my my imagination doy in Germany just me a message says M hasn't been here for a few years when he coming back whenever he invites me that's amazing morab and David with us via telephone talking about the latest album in stores now M I want to wish you with new album I don't think you'll need it from me but I'll wish it to you anyways every okay I want to wish you a g Zimmer thank you yeah thank you and uh we are looking forward to hearing 43 more songs whenever you're ready okay all the best and and uh love to all the listeners take care bye