Shloime Gertner "MINCHA" Z Report Interview with Yossi Zweig

joining us live via telephone all the way from the uk should be the one and only slimy gertner you're there schlemmer yeah i'm five hours ahead but i'm there i heard i heard a rumor slimy that not only did yadav and minha today but ayedav enough time just about time to sing the song and then it's mario about like eight minutes later so what you're saying is that people in london do know about minecraft it's not a surprise for them yeah it was interesting i doubted for the homework no i went for two homework so the oil said gert now go daven so so i don't i told him i'm not looking to advertise my album here i just want to darven you know but at the beamer was the person who sells the cds he said after mirko whoever hasn't bought me yet could come to my store i don't know sounds like a pr stunt to me slimy no way never pr stamped with any with rochnias you know when you down touchdown you gotta doubt not pr or anything but uh maybe maybe the outcome was pr i don't know i hear so we're talking to schleimme gerner all the way from london his new album minha hit stores just a few weeks ago ranged masterfully by moan shimona rosenblum uh gershy moskowitz production i gotta ask you with all the amazing songs on this album you know in the shama you've released uh previously um you have hayam tamsinu which people are loving cayenne which i told you i love and then shloya sanigae why name the album i would have named the amuslia sunny guy i tell you there were there were many various names on this album we chose simply for the same reason i actually purchased the song when i heard the song initially i liked the the the message of the song more than the actual song once the production was finished and then mana added on his hatch and his and the whole intro he he twisted the song to another level but what i liked about the song was the message and it's based on the hotend who when he finished his safe on shmir and he said if one person will not speak lotion horror because of this safer it was worth all the effort all the time and all the money everything that he put in and that is on a rokhani's thing here we're talking a name of an album that could give such a strong message for people that are stuck in work like myself sometimes i find myself in the winter dealing with customers and it's four o'clock and we need to go down minha and you gotta tell the customers i'm sorry are you you know that message it appealed to me very much and i felt if i could give a message in a name and got an original name as well no one's ever called album in that type of manner so you're definitely right about very yeah so slimy tell me who is mendel roth i'm not sure i've even heard of this composer mendel wrote who did men he's a rubbish high nickel from shamrom he plays the guitar he's he does a lot of care of um doing consistency for boko haram and he's got a he's got an amazing heart for music and he's a composer himself and i heard the song first time a friend of mine avrumi berko with london he's very involved in the music industry he's just got a lot of passion for music and he hears this song and he tells me wow you know listen to this and from the first second i told him whatever you do just try and get me that song and he and he delivered and then mona delivered the arrangement and and the rest is all you know it's history it's an amazing it's like a whole era it's the minh era i call it especially this week it's all in this week it's really it's the moment as i say well that's why we picked this week to interview we didn't want to wait you know until it was a different week we wanted to do the week of milk exactly we'll do next week another one if you wish but you should know yasi talking to you is just amazing because you're so involved in music with probably the first interview you've ever done was how many years ago probably 10 12 years ago yeah about 12 yeah 10 11 years ago and it's just amazing to be to be in contact with you for so many years and to to not so much of your musical talent as well and ideas of of everything it's really a big thank you to you and uh and once again hello to all your listeners i gotta tell you i think we actually we were your first photo shoot uh back in the day yeah remember the photo shoot in the park oh yeah the park in a furniture store oh yeah yeah yeah so let me know before that was before nissan came out that was it was right before it had some came out yeah yeah actually right now we have listeners in israel in canada in belgium and in london tuned in from across the globe as well as across the united states i wanted to ask you i was reading a little bit about your background i didn't realize you and mona went back almost to nb days yeah yeah it was those days there was those those peak days when when music was you know it was it had a whole a whole nother meaning music you know there was no it was um tapes still going on they were the first the first song of the second side of the cassette there was you know it had the whole meaning it was the the mbt um you know those days where we were waiting in yeshiva for that cd i'm sure these days we also have it but it's totally different the market is so much wider these days in those days there were there weren't that many singers mbd avron fried we had a few miami's you know it was already igor phallic stopped his album it was very few and i remember that excitement and a friend of mine invited me to studio to be part of the of the choir and in the mbd album it just meant so much to me and i bumped into mona at that time and even even once we got to studio there were so many there were like 40-50 bachelor i'm trying to be involved in the choir to sing and mana was looking for a way to minimize the choir and he started saying to everyone sing you stay sing you go out sing you stay and so on and on till the till there were ten people left and when it when it came to my turn to sing and he told me stay it was like wow it was like this judge is telling you you could stay here meant amend the world right um and ever since he used to it was i remember going back to yeshiva and uh telling my friend shlomi daskal who we learned together in yeshiva telling him you won't believe i was just in studio singing here and i knew his passion for music as well the next time i invited him i was already i was already a guest who was inviting another guest wow and um and from then on it was the shloima that whole two three years these shiva years all the albums that came out that what they enjoyed about it is that they don't have to they didn't every choir cost them quite a lot so they could they could supply a choir with two members less because of us right we we got a world of experience it was really like studying music for us seeing how from scratch how the music is done and uh until today we benefit from that schlemmed up in his way me in my way but it's uh it's all it's that we could say it's that first time in studio when i met mona rosenblum until today we have an amazing kesha and i've i've been i've been in touch with him throughout the years the whole time and finally we got to work on our project i think that's amazing i didn't even know that i mean i heard that you sang on the choir i didn't know you're the one that introduced schlemming swimming told me many years ago that he also sang in the choir it's very funny so i have two things to say to you then slimy first off what are we going to get a shloima album album oh okay that sounds like a plan i'll tell you what you got to put the vote out there if there's a vote for it we'll maybe go for it i hear and second of all what is it like working on mona working with mona on an album from start to finish because i remember a few years ago uh yamil begun put out a miami rebach dvd and on the dvd there was behind the scenes footage of mona and his choir doing their thing on one of the songs and it was just for me it was an eye opener because here you see mona and he's always there with a piano because he has to he has to hit the key and he's hitting the key and he hits the key and tells the guys like this like this and the way the entire choir goes it was so unique so yeah very much you know musical direction musical noted not just come and sing your part but let's let's do this properly let's this this this um experience it's album number six this experience has been a dream dream experience to work with mona because we were choosing songs together i various trips i i traveled from london to israel just to sit on production then to sit down on intros on bridges and songs and how to you know how to bring out the best of every song we were involved in everything and obviously the seat is the key is the 99.9 percentage but we put in a lot of effort of our own to you know a lot of establish a lot of extra time and that could only happen really when you do a full production with someone because when you do when you do two three songs he'll give it all he's got but he doesn't know the rest of the song hey he know he knows the picture of the album and he was that's why he was so involved to the detail i gotta tell you i think the result is phenomenal uh we're getting a question here from chicago he says that he loves the new album he bought it and he plays it all the time but he wants to know if there was a lot of thought put into why some of the songs sound like 2016 but some of the songs sound like the 80s you know is that done on purpose or that's just the way things happened yeah that's some on purpose it's it it's we wanted in hebrew they say the taste is like once it like once upon a time and uh and that's really what i wanted i wanted to do an album of music the sound that i grew up on even the mix the mix is the older type of mix many things i wanted the older taste because today's music was current is current yeah you don't have to produce that just go to anyone that's what you're producing there's a whole but um but to do to do this type of project was very uh for me i found it being very unique and that's what i wanted to achieve and i could say we we really achieved it the result is fantastic and the razel song is also fantastic i know i wanted to get there you know that will um yeah how did slimy gartner get to you know tan roselle i mean you you guys you know i'm sure you didn't let me ask you this this message from from canada that you just read out by who was it right slimy is that a good thing that he's mentioning or he would have rather it'd all be 2016. i think it was just a question as to why you know it just seemed that it was probably planned that way i'm guessing to be honest before i released the album i was i was thinking am i taking two steps back over here and that's not good or is it two steps back and that makes it an interesting and unique album right and from the feedback it shows like he was stepped in the right direction right well i mean look at your other albums you know albums like seyasei you know csa was was more of a i would say you know futuristic nowadays album the same goes to imagine you know imagine didn't have a lot of the out of feel to it you know a lot of electronic songs a couple of english songs uh you know even even what was it what was the song yeah imagine also was another taste of i worked with different arrangers so the sound is going to be very different to what you were used to listening to but the one thing is is everybody throughout the years has heard plenty of moto songs and that is a sound that they like very much so hashem as far as that's concerning the very smart job so how does slimy gardner get to jonathan rozelle i mean have you guys ever shared the stage over the years with uh that is thanks to production manager garcia moscowitz who really deserves a lot of credit here and he actually introduced me to rozelle he was the one who we went together the first time was together with the aussie t-bird yossi t-berg and goshi we were in israel and um they arranged to meet with jonathan and then we've been this song has just been going on for ages because we had so many different verses of how different ways of how to sing the song on the verse and um until we decided it just okay there's jonathan himself told me he's never been involved in a song so many years and uh and the final product we could say is you know i occasionally i still think that other takes because i've got i've got a whole mix up of so many verses different ways of singing it right and i'm trying to get to to to forget the others but it doesn't work like that in music was it was it an easy decision to decide having him join on the song or was it did it start off as being just you doing the song without your thumb no no it wasn't the plan but i just told them always would be an honor if we could duet on this song and um and in the last minute it happened it was the last song that was recorded on the album wow it was the last vocal that was sung and uh all in the last minute it was you know i said it pays to delay the album to bring out this song and i definitely agree with you that and that was the first single as far as i remember being released during a serious meet shiva uh schlemmer with us via telephone talking about his brand new album um slimy you've been known to have a great connection to yussi green through gershy moscow since day one um but you've had many great slow songs including uh including the song for your daughter and many others so i was surprised where the two yes green songs on this album they're not slow they're both quick yeah yeah it's interesting it's really what i find on this album a lot of you know you you hope for something for a certain you picture the album a certain way but it doesn't always work according to how you worked in the in the previous albums right and it's a total fresh way of thinking totally open-minded i told mona you know i told him i surrender i'm giving i'm giving you the decision we've got 40 odd songs here i don't i let you choose them and he was he was deciding what goes in what goes out so you know from that point of view i had to do it because i wanted to hear the best of mana i wanted him to to put in his best and and i think that was the only way and and it proves again and again that that's that's the way of doing an album doesn't mean that i'm i'm going to continue doing albums like that because i really enjoy various uh um you know working with different productions always right different types of albums different type of songs whether it's yiddish english you know like one like that which is a regular commercial album but the the the learning experience was fantastic yeah i got to tell you the one thing that put a smile on my face when i got the albums last week i'm looking at the back cover shlois signing show me garner hit one hit two hit three hit four hit five so slimy doesn't consider his song songs or tracks no it's hit 1 through 14. the appeal hit one by one i thought that was very cool another another i guess uh schlemme gerner update is that you have a website finally and it's gone up gardeningmusic.commusic.com i mean this this this you know this social media twitter facebook instagram slamming gurner is coming into 2016 2017 and he's saying he's here to stay did you get a pocket watch after the album was out or not not really not really no i really decided i decided to just look at my phone every time i need to know the time and i actually don't wear a watch at all uh i really think we need to get you a miracle parker watch okay it gives you what to what to think about i'll tell you where my birthday is a little later definitely definitely um that's recently you released a a music video for your last album you know and of course you had the schmeichel video before that and the video from uh dude does this mean we're going to be seeing more videos of schlemmy gertner in the future or are you just going to stay to a recording artist no i should i should really do many more music videos and hopefully we'll get down to it you know there's a lot of traveling and there's a lot of um hopefully i have to find a good dredge of time to dedicate to do music videos or good uh a good producing some manager to take care of these things but uh we'll get there we'll get there hopefully it's definitely it's a nice thing to have and it's important these days the youngsters like it they connect to the songs more it brings out the meaning of the song though all in all you're a winner with a music video you're always a winner and the thing i like the best it shows schlemmy gurner's personality which is always fun to watch on film uh yeah yeah i find out many things when i watch these videos when i look back at them i found that i find out a lot of about my personality you're right interesting so it's a good thing i want to wish you mata what did they say uh winter winter it's winter it's if you want to reach me or if you want to book him or buy his music gurtnermusic.com all of his music's available digitally on itunes google play amazon one thing there's one thing i feel yes you know that that i had a sim for this master shabbos and they were asking me about the song sanctuary they wanted me to sing it i said mata shabbas is an indian to say a story there's a thing to say a little story of sadiq and something so i told them the story of shalom and it really i i realized it hit me again how special the story of the song is please tell us let us hear what the story is we have this going back 25 odd years rabbi kaminetsky has a show and the yidd comes into the show and he says and he's like he's like hungry for you describe but he doesn't know much and and this is a story that mona is reading and the the story goes on and rashness goes up to him what can i do for you what and they get to talk and he says he doesn't know nothing about yiddish christ he asked him he says such a complicated muscle yeah such simplicity you know just wow out like that and shamai surely don't know so he says when he was in the camp there was a yid over there the germans particularly liked to bully him more than the others and they would send him from one end from of the camp to the other with heavy stones and every time he would walk past he would say because we didn't um um pray to hashem with zimcha and be be always that's right that's why this is happening that that's how so he he so he said he heard this posture from this man a few thousand times during the camp mm-hmm asked him how uh what was the name of this year so they said they they called him the rebbe of closenburg closing booger wow amazing story mana here's [Applause] he's like all hyped and happy about that song somebody tells him to pass you know to do a song on the toy apostle rather not so he took the song put it away put it in his drawer where he's got a few thousand more songs there but it's always been bugging him that it's such a good song and he's not making use of it about 15 years ago he went with a survivor with a group and on a uh with a biannual i think he was to one of the camps and the survivor is telling him the following story it was before yom serve and in this camp there were 180 flights a very narrow staircase 180 flights upstairs where the germans used to send up people with heavy stones and they once air beyond turf it was roll call time they threw down a year those there and that was the end of him and this survivor says the closing booger ever was there near him and he said to the rebel review is this what you call a chosen people a chosen nation without skipping a heartbeat there ever says to him now more than ever i'm going to say it now i understand it more than ever he says you know we say every morning shalom sunny says imagine we would have been born the german and doing all these terrible things to women and children and families says better to be the one who's being hit than the one who's sitting in this scenario and he said from then on this yid said the survivor who was they said every morning he was happy when he got up he couldn't wait to make the brokers he used to go out and roll call neither near the germans he would just say that broker with kavanaugh and he said that was his happy moment of the camp so mana took that song which was also a story with the closenburg right and combined it and that was that's how the song developed and and he was saying that usually a song from the second world war would be you know a slow song more and this one is the happy one would be more of a summer song yeah exactly and this one's a happy song and and it's just an amazing story of encouragement a broker that we say every day and to just to to understand how eden in those days going through the toughest times possible and they and they would uh find the light and say abraca like that and the encouragement of a rebbe who lost so much in the war to have the you know the the brightness of thinking of answering back a year like this and telling him and he said that's what helped him throughout the war that's what that was the encouragement so this song being track number one hit number one is uh is a very it's a song that's very close to me and especially tamanna rosenblum who wrote the song and um now that you know the story you play the song you'll hear you'll hear the song in another and then on another level slimy i appreciate it uh ladies and gentlemen schlemmer via phone is brand new album thank you very much thank you to all thanks thank you enjoying your program continue making people happy and to all the listeners thank you all scratch let me have a great winter