{"id":32471,"date":"2015-11-04T01:37:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T08:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=32471"},"modified":"2015-11-09T03:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T10:58:00","slug":"yair-yona-bar-giyora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=32471","title":{"rendered":"Yair Yona @Bar Giyora"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me begin with what I know: Yair Yona is one of the few musicians who can tempt me out of the house on a rainy night, still on the long drawn out swan song of a diva cold.<\/p>\n

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Yair Yona at the Bar Giyora\/Photo: Ayelet Dekel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I enjoy Yair’s music because it’s not about what you know, it’s about what you don’t know, feeling as you go. So I joined the crowd down in the basement at Bar Giyora, to hear Yair, who was just back from a tour in France. Almost two weeks later, I’m still looking at my notes from the concert, and feeling very reluctant to turn them into a formal review. So, there you have it before you: my mind on Yair Yona’s music. Verbatim. Almost.*<\/p>\n

1. Which is lucid more lucid?
\nIncidental words become incendiary, ignite, red and orange against the azure sky.
\nWellspring of notes cascading coming from within. Then a stranger walks in and everything slows, something opens up. The horizon is wide and you can take your\u00a0 time to discover where you are. This strange place is home and you are the stranger or just at the sink by the window washing dishes, listening to the sound of water.<\/p>\n

2. Yair: idea to have the audience wear an eye patch, born on tour in France – not to look at his hands\u00a0 or guitar. ** “Struggle Solitude”<\/p>\n

I can feel the music on my skin. Treacherous beauty moving faster than I want to go, entering a dream I have visited before.<\/p>\n

3. “Brave Walls” Yair: written many years ago about the courage to do your own thing, a birkat haderech to follow your heart, dedicated to cousin turning 18.<\/p>\n

Texture, tension, jumping between two points – then a thickness, lines going in different directions, tangled …then return to those two points but somehow reconciled.<\/p>\n

4. “The Space Race” Yair: relatively new song, a journey to a distant planet.<\/p>\n

Floating (would I have felt that ?? I think so), my body floating away from my body, an erotic haze. Drinks floating around me in a bar floating up in space.<\/p>\n

That quiet after the end of the song.<\/p>\n

5. “This One’s For You Glenn” (Jones) Yair: I had the pleasure of meeting Glenn at a radio station. It’s a song about meeting your heroes. It can be a very dangerous encounter. He came with a bag of lettuce, we had beer after and hamburgers, back when I could still enjoy hamburgers. Be careful what you ask for.<\/p>\n

Music: wide open smile, something meditative. What you find – disappointment, danger, conversation going around til midnight… it’s building up but not tense\u00a0 – excited, almost a dance.<\/p>\n

6. New song first time playing in front of an audience. “Cultivating Love in the Fear Body”<\/p>\n

Spice garden – cloves, cinnamon, pepper.\u00a0 Plants reaching out to touch me, feeling the leaves of plants.
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