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http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/n...hp3?artid=11584
nice article about music bringing the people together... very cool.
for those of you who don't feel like clicking the link:
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| Coexistence, With A Groove DJ summit in Holy City club brings together Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian spinners for a night away from the conflict. Joshua Mitnick - Israel Correspondent Jerusalem � It was a tripped-out electro-vision of Middle East coexistence. In the Holy City�s leading disco last week, dove cutouts hovered above the dance floor, illuminated by hazy green and yellow spotlights. Belly dancers clad in shiny bikini tops swiveled their hips while Israeli clubbers hopped to the hard-thumping house beats. Bartenders wrapped keffiyah scarves over their shoulders. The heady scene was in honor of a first-ever disc jockey summit that brought together a triumvirate of Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian turntable luminaries. And although the pickup vibe at the club, Haoman 17, wouldn�t exactly befit buttoned-up diplomats, a sense of protocol was not forgotten: hanging over the DJ booth was an Israeli flag flanked on either side by a Palestinian and a Jordanian flag. The lineup moved from the commercial rhythms of Ramallah�s Khalil Kamal to the Arabic groove of Tel Aviv�s Srulik Einhorn and concluded with the progressive house beat from Jordan�s Morad Kalice. In a city shattered by regular terrorist bombings over the five-year Palestinian uprising, the evening underscored how Israel�s capital has liberated itself � at least for the time being � from the taboos of daily conflict. �It�s putting the enemy in the DJ spot, and anyway, he�s not the enemy, he�s just the guy spinning the records,� said Arik, a 27-year-old journalist after leaving the club. To be sure, the Israeli-Arab summit got a more positive reception in a scene where a good party is a much more compelling draw than the ideological blood feud that divides each respective society. �It�s clubbers. Basically they�re either drunk or popping pills,� added the journalist. But over the last five years, there has been virtually no place in Israel to find refuge from the conflict. Not even in the den of hedonism often found in Israeli clubs. Seared into the national memory is the shock over the June 2001 Dolphinarium bombing on the Tel Aviv beach. Even though Haoman has sought to remain open despite tense periods, it too closed its doors for a month in 2002, after several of its regulars were killed in a suicide bombing at Jerusalem�s Moment Caf�. �We didn�t think people should come to dance when people and our friends are dying on the streets. We didn�t feel like partying in those days,� said Omri Heilvronner, head of promotions for the club. �The situation in Jerusalem is different now. For the past six or seven months, it�s been calming down in Israel, so we felt it was the right thing to do.� The summit was the brainchild of Einhorn, a 26-year-old turntable DJ who helped spur the popularization of electronic Arabic music in Tel Aviv bars and clubs. After years of playing the music, he began trying to make contact with DJs in neighboring Arab countries. Einhorn visited Amman last spring after mutual friends put him in touch with Kalice. An attempt to bring the Jordanian DJ to Israel to spin records at a Tel Aviv party in May imploded at the last minute after Israel�s Shin Bet security services refused a visa to Kalice. Several months and dozens of phone calls later, Einhorn got the Interior Ministry to issue a visa. But instead of Tel Aviv, Einhorn decided on a more provocative location for the party: Jerusalem. And a bilateral appearance became a three-way performance when they added Kamal, 37, the leading DJ on Ramallah�s party scene. Einhorn said the performance was the first time he�s ever ventured into the political realm. �It�s a nice event of cooperation, and it�s never been done in the region,� he said. �Also, being in Jerusalem means doing it in the holy city to three religions.� Although many Arab artists have shunned visits to Israel for fear of vilification back home, the 26-year-old Amman DJ seemed largely unconcerned about the prospect of a backlash. Instead, Kalice displayed cellular text messages of encouragement from friends back at home. With parents hailing from Jaffa and Jerusalem, a weekend in Israel could have been pregnant with emotional minefields, but Kalice said he focused on the adventure of visiting a place most of his friends back in Amman couldn�t. �I�m into music, so politics doesn�t interest me,� he said. �The message that I want to bring to the people is that music should bring people together.� If the overwhelmingly Israeli crowd at the Haoman show was any indication, that ideal is still a ways off in the Middle East. But Ramallah�s Kamal said he was less concerned about the demographics of the crowd than the Palestinian flag and the reception. �It was cool. It was the first time I was in such an atmosphere with a Jewish crowd. I was afraid that they wouldn�t accept me because I�m an Arab. But they accepted everything I played,� he said. �It wasn�t only music. It was the only night that we felt there was no difference between Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian. We hope that they will feel that way on the street.� Outside the club, Raja Kalebo, a Palestinian friend of Kamal�s explained that Arabs from Jerusalem were absent because there had been little publicity. And there was little hope of securing travel permission for the DJs� Ramallah fans to cross the Israeli military�s checkpoint into Jerusalem. A missed opportunity, said Kalebo, because even such an innocuous pastime as clubbing together has the power to break down barriers. �If you go out with someone, you change your opinion of them. You see their good side,� he said. �It�s a special feeling, but between us, I wish it were real, meaning that it would be deep in people�s hearts rather than just a passing party.� |
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| �It�s clubbers. Basically they�re either drunk or popping pills,� added the journalist. |
a single mind reflected on each other's eyes...
yeah often times people like to undermine genuine
attributes the final quote nicely encapsulates both
the irony of the gig integrating clashingroups and
the beauty or magic musican createven for a moment
sometimes when i listen to greatrance and walk in
the streets of manhattan i wish the entire world
could hear and experience the sense of joy and
positive energy it provides needless to say music
is a wonderful vehicle to a sense of community and
self awareness
;)
Re: a single mind reflected on each other's eyes...
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| Originally posted by colibri yeah often times people like to undermine genuine attributes the final quote nicely encapsulates both the irony of the gig integrating clashingroups and the beauty or magic musican createven for a moment sometimes when i listen to greatrance and walk in the streets of manhattan i wish the entire world could hear and experience the sense of joy and positive energy it provides needless to say music is a wonderful vehicle to a sense of community and self awareness ;) |
ani oev haaretz sheli!!! 
haoman 17 is one of my favorite clubs in the world! I love it!
h a o m a n
http://www.base.co.il/haoman.asp
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