Album Notes

After his songs were banned on Israeli military radio O became an underground favorite of the alternative movement with draft counceling to turn away from guns and offering the traveling artist as an alternative to 3 years of military service. 22 songs on the theme of personal choice and O's individual journey through India and as a street musician in Europe to the alternative of family and Jerusalem where it was recorded with 22 different musicians, all from Jerusalem. An unique folding A4 cover and texts on how to get a discharge from the military and O's own discharge letter,this CD has reached every conscientious objector sitting in an Israeli military prison and many who used it to take the humorous way out. The artist is aware of a divine presence making the state obsolete. He calls to turn away from the god of power that the army has become in Israel and stand outside the herd as an awakened individual. Offering an elitist path as a musician the album tells in pictures of a deserter flying to Spain to study flamenco with his sister (Lysistrata)a musician carried by the wind (Leaf)a lulluby with a cello (Faith is Art)a Charlie Parker quote (Katmandu)a Yom Kippur visit to Katmandu (what's the price?) self definition in Klezmer (Who are You?)and in calling (MUSICIAN)a dixieland visit to an Arab-Jewish kindergarden (little peace) a cabaret meeting with the psychiatrist (21)and 12 more.In choosing whom to cover given the choice, O translated 4 songs by Leonard Cohen. "You who build these alters now to sacrifice your children...". see:www.leonardcohenfiles/ofer golany. The The Baal Shem Tov meets Frank Zappa and John Lennon and together they say theirs thru this channel -in Hebrew.