A-WA: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
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- Watch A-WA play"Habib Galbi", "Al Asad" and "Hana Mash Hu Al Yaman" at the Tiny Desk.
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Sept. 3, 2019 | Bob Boilen -- The last time we filmed these three Israeli sisters, they were sitting in my hotel room during South by Southwest, performing a heartbreaking lullaby, accompanied by just a guitarist. Now Liron, Tagel and Tair Haim are behind my desk with a full band of keyboards, bass, guitar and drums, singing more forlorn tunes in their unique three-part harmony.
Their songs mix Yemenite and Arabic traditions with splashes of reggae and hip-hop. Our Tiny Desk concert begins with "Habib Galbi" ("Love of My Heart"), a heartbreaking song that went viral for A-WA in 2016. A-WA have recently released a second album, Bayti Fi Rasi (My Home is in My Head). The record tells the story of their grandmother traveling from Yemen to Israel.
The final two songs come from that recent album. "Al Asad" is a metaphorical tale of facing down a lion in your path, while the last song "Hana Mash Hu Al Yaman," ("Here is Not Yemen"), paints the struggles of coming to a new land, learning the language, finding work, a place to live and making it a home. This music is relatively upbeat with dark, thoughtful words. We've subtitled English translations as part of the video to help their message reach an even wider audience. This music is for our world at large.
SET LIST
"Habib Galbi"
"Al Asad"
"Hana Mash Hu Al Yaman"
MUSICIANS
Tair Haim: vocals; Liron Haim: vocals; Tagel Haim: vocals; Nitzan Eisenberg: bass; Noam Havkin: keys, synth; Tal Cohen: drums; Yiftach Shachaf: guitar
CREDITS
Producers: Bob Boilen, Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative Director: Bob Boilen; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, CJ Riculan, Jeremiah Rhodes, Maia Stern; Associate Producer: Bobby Carter; Production Assistant: Paul Georgoulis; Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey; VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann; Photo: Bob Boilen/NPR
you know they're true musicians when the live vocal performance sounds just as perfect as the recordings!!
I often ordered the album after hearing a band on NPR - and most of the time I was really disappointed. The live performances to my ears are always more authentic and breathtaking than these modern productions. (can´t speak of this band, I gave up ordering the albums. Only pure NPR sound is the real thing! ;-) )
@@ElGuitaristo79 Their sound person is incredible... absolutely amazing recordings for live performances in an office building
yup
@Tarhea-Geddwyn Raat Yes but performance > sound quality/perfect pitch (for most people including him and me). Also a good sound engineer will retune, edit etc. depending on the style and what people expect for this specific style. In pop and mainstream you'll edit a lot because everything has to be perfect but in some other styles the audience might like it more if you leave some flaws in. Finally this oriental kind of singing has lot of melismas and going between the 12 tones of the usual scale so I don't know how well it goes with a pitch corrector. Would be curious to know. Anyway in this case the recording and live are so different (instruments, general feeling) that they are not even comparables.
music from yemen
The "I came to you, fleeing. You saw me as primitive" bit always gets me
Thank you for the subtitles! I wish you did that more often for these amazing international performances.
Yes!!! Knowing the meaning really changes the experience
yes! it is great to have these subtitles. thanks to tiny desk, i'll be playing this for my international migration course where we study exile this week. really powerful performance!
For those who don't know , they occupy Palestinian land .
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@@ikke1970100 Vicious nonsense. Stop it. Build your own country and stop trying to steal Jewish land.Enjoy the music and stop spreading lies.
No matter where it occurs, the immigrant story contains elements that I always find powerful and relatable. It's a great template that sort of resembles a hero's journey. Their great grandma moved from Yemen to Israel...my parents moved from Haiti to the USA...similar challenges are faced by all migrants. And even if one is not relocating physically, the passage of time is a stressful journey that we all must undertake...anyway, lovely performance, the subtitles are appreciated😄
That's a very thoughtful comment. "Hana Mash Hu Al Yaman", with its back and forth, call and response structure, conveys so well the hopes and burdens of emigration, flight, and diaspora, I think. In that sense, it reminds me of the song "America" from the musical West Side Story.
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Indeed, thank you @RG Fleuridor for a lovely comment. The immigrant experience is powerful. My ancestors emigrated from the old world (Europe and India) to Australia and South Africa; I have migrated to Europe and I find music central to the search for home. The lyrics (thanks for translations) about Yemen and Israel are compelling, thank you Tiny Desk
Great comment dude!
omg bro you didn't tell me you were famous!! 😮😮 anyway. all mine, your mind; we always be having the same thoughts on things like this. hyphenated nation rise up! love ya 💓
Ofra Haza in her heaven smiles. These ladies are fantastic.
Banot Ofra
❤️
❤❤❤
To be honest, I shed quite a lot of tears during this version of Hana Mash Hu Al Yaman. Just great and so powerful! Lots of love from me, a Russian-Jewish girl. :)
me too, including the soviet diasporic content in my lineage. goes to show these are our sisters despite the passage of time.
Being a Turk who lives in the west, Ive heard a lot of eastern and western music but I've never come across something so unusually beautiful. Reggae with a Middle eastern jam? Why not!
@edysixth thanks for the recommendation. I only just checked them out yesterday and they're awesome
I am a yemeny man and i never knew about them.. and i am so happy to hear them.. this kind of music is so rare even in yemen
@@sultanheart I'm curious to know, are the girls singing in a unique arabic dialect given they're Yemenite jews or is it pretty much the on point with typical Yemeny Arabic?
Has MS
Thats a common yemeny dialect in north yemen..
Biji Kurd u Kurdistan
From Yemen we love u 🇾🇪🇾🇪🇾🇪
😘
THIS.
IS.
MY.
NEW.
JAM.
We love from Yemen 🇾🇪❤❤❤❤🇾🇪
I am Qatari I have Yaman jews roots from my mom side I love you A-WA proud of you
soso omg that’s so cool!
theres significant minority of arabian ppl with jewish roots
if yours mother mother was a Jew so u r Qatari Jew if you have documents proving that u can became Israeli.
@@zorozed8309 I want to come to Israel.
As immigrant
Can, I?
@@zorozed830900967774908129
Yémen
Their harmony is very consistent! It’s a bit complex at times but I didn’t hear them mess up once. Skill.
Who have you seen/heard that's messed up on here bruh?
Yeah, they totally rock the harmonies.
it's true... looks like they worked their asses off on those harmonies, they are each equally capable vocalists and big souls, preformers.. like in the old days... such a genius thing "singing trios" back in the day... it's a lost art... everyone doubletracking in the studio :-)
@@helloagain4546 Thay did... they are all graduates of "Rimon" academy, the most prominent music institute in Israel, it made them hardworking perfectionist masters of their craft.
Practicing since childhood...
*So very proud of those trio Yemenite sisters. It’s amazing how they preserved Yemenite culture more than folks who live in Yemen 🇾🇪 + 🇮🇱 = ❤️*
No 🇾🇪+🇵🇸=❤️
Famo 26 no 🇾🇪➕🇺🇳 = 💗
Me bro Slaam from Sanaa ♥️
@@shhh445 Nah
There is so much to see outside our 4 walls!
Another beautiful moment from NPR! Once again, you've introduced me to an artist/band that I never knew existed that has blessed my ears and soul. 🙏🏼
As a Maltese speaker, it's so fascinating to be able to understand parts of Yemeni! Language is such a beautiful thing
That is so cool. I only recently learned that Maltese is largely derived from Sicilian Arabic from Mahgrebi of North Africa. What a rich history. Too bad most people have no idea how intermingled we all are in so many ways.
Yemeni? You mean arabic
@@M4th3u54ndr4d3 - Arabic is the base language, as written and grammar. It is called Fusha, or Standard, Literary, Classic, High or Koranic Arabic. However, it not spoken in a unified form almost anywhere in the Arabic world. Somewhat akin to Spanish but with greater variation. Certainly no Spanish speaker considers Spain to be the center of anything. Each Arab nation speaks its national variant, or Register, with variations in vocabulary, grammar and accents, as well as slang. Much depends on the language of the former colonial metropolises. So that French is very present in Lebanese or Algerian but not Egyptian, or Yemeni. All Arabic yet at times hardly intelligible between parts of the Arabic speaking world. One written language, many spoken 'dialects.' So yes, Yemeni Arabic.
@@AR-ml9eo Its obvious that there is a lot of arabic dialects, golfi 3arabi, levantine, egyptian, maghrebi... But it is still ARABIC or YEMENI ARABIC, not YEMENI
@@M4th3u54ndr4d3 you'd be just as correct without yelling :D
I am moroccan with Yemeni roots (very old roots but still), this is fantastic
Wow! My family is Moroccan Israeli, like many Jews from other African countries that fled to Israel for a new life. This is some powerful stuff, and crazy groovy, you ladies and the band really are channeling some beauty - thank you!!!!
אהלן מעוד ישראלי ממשפחה במקור מרוקאית! 👋
You didn't fled. You took a land by force and crimes.
@@sunny-td7qg Nah
It’s very groovy indeed
@@Chaneloweenzya. zionists paid the moroccan king to bring jews in operation yachin. stop lying.
This is so dope. These girls are super classy, love the way they dance, and this band behind knows how to hold a groove!!
I'm a simple man! I see tiny desk notification, I click.
Same here...
You Sir are a complex man who is yearning for new sound..!
Never been disappointed yet!!
This is the band that made me want to learn Arabic. The way they sing Al Asad just brings out the pain and suffering and overcoming of everyone in the world. What a survivor song!! Best band ever!
They are from Israel and how they sing is not a language but a yemenite dialect
It's judeo yenenite
what? are y'all sure the lyrics of Al Asad are not in arabic?
@@Hyuzuka It's a Jewish Yemenite dialect, but it's definitely Arabic imo. I say this as someone who's studied both Arabic and Hebrew.
@@boazmunro478Jews spoke Arabic for like 1200 years before the revival of Hebrew as a modern language (no one speak Biblical Hebrew, it became a liturgical language but not Living)
It never fails to amaze me how many times I need to be taught this lesson by NPR Music: Listen to the TDC even if you don't recognize the artist name. Thank all that is good that the autoplay feature fed me A-WA this morning.
The attitude of this group is incredibly infectious, the music is so casual but precise. It's so fresh to my ears and eyes that I can't really describe it but I know I love it.
Love from YEMEN❤️
When the bass dropped everything made sense. 👍🏼👍🏼
i love this version of their last song way more than the album version. it fits so much better with the actual theme and lyrics of the song
But the video is great don't you think? A little abstract yes but I love all their music videos.
We went to their show last summer in NYC, bought the GREAT album, and their AwEsOmE bass player, Nitzan Eizenman agreed to take it backstage and get it signed for us! THANK YOU! and please come again!!
Their vocals are so precise
Tel Aviv’s musical contribution reminiscent of the band Chic, baladi beats, obvious Yemenite culture. It takes me back to the Shuk Market, Dizengoff Street, Neve Tzedek, driving on the Ayalon Highway, walking along Tel Baruch Beach at sunset. Todah Rabah A-Wa!!!
why. did you leave?
woah, this comment brought tears to my eyes. I long for Tel Aviv so much, and this year is the first one since 2017 that I didn't visit because of corona. Since I first visited in 2017, I have been visiting twice a year. There is nothing like that place.
I felt your comment so much
This was so much more grooving than I anticipated after reading the description.
A-WA are really killing this NPR ❤️
Yes yes they are
My suggestion is that they start looking for “Latino acoustical songs”
Corridos
Esmael Bara you mean "is?" not "are"
ricky gonzaga yes thank you
But those harmonies, though! And they're coming through with the groove on top singing about love and emotion? Yes!
stylecollective yes! My weakness is good harmony, doesn’t matter if I understand the language or not
For the benefit of those "not in the know", there's a reference here 11:04 in the song that only Jews around the world will get... "land of wheat and barley, grape and olive, fig and pomegranate, date and home". Its an ancient Jewish cultural concept called "7 species", with old symbolism attached to each of these indigenous plants of Israel. Many Jewish festivals have central thoughts from things found in nature in the homeland. Like the use of the citron during Sukkot, or the paste made with dates on Passover.
Thanks for the information. I have been loving this song, and I figured those were all items that could be found in Israel, but now I have a cultural context to go with it.
Just out of curiosity...When they say "grape, olive, fig, pomegranate, date" those five words sound similar at the begining. Why is that? Thanks.
@@JulioTijuana01 "inab, zayit, tein, ruman, tamar" is those five words they're singing in Yemenite Arabic. In Hebrew it is very similar - "anav, zayit, te'ena, rimon, tamar". Although we almost always refer to the plural form for grapes & olives - anavim and zeytim. Or often refer to grapes as 'grapevine' = 'gefen' (which is also a Hebrew family name).
@@lihilevy366 Most refugee Jews that arrived in Israel were to some extent disappointed, that it's not as much a perfect paradise as described by all our ancestors. Every community had its own different form of hardship. And of course bombs landing. I know a Syrian Jew who escaped, arrived in the land of "mixed fruit orchards & rivers" to then be given a military uniform and put on the front lines against the advancing Syrian tanks. What a day to arrive home. Many have similar stories.
@@interestingyoutubechannel1 Interesting in so many levels , thank you!
The Yemenite vibe is strong!
Beautiful discovery . This is why i love tiny desk no religion no color just universal music
Love this sessions!!! I’m Mexican and I don’t know why in the hell I love this music,but I love the fact that I do!!!😁😁😁😉😉😉 new follower A-WA!!!
Have you seen the Tiny Desk session with Café Tacvba ? That and this one (A-Wa) are my faves !
Mexico has a lot of Middle Eastern influence.
They have talent
You girls are so inspiring! Liron...My parents named my younger sister ''Netanya Liron''. We are also three sisters, our parents met in Israel. It is beautiful to see you girls creating together. Thank you!
Thank you Tiny Desk never heard of A-WA.. but will now! Lovely and upbeat, with such meaningful words. Peace and blessings to all beings.
تحية لكي من اليمن 😘
Tiny Desks are craaazy well produced. I've never considered listening to this music but it sounds incredible! Good vibes all round
That last song especially was BANGIN'!!! Thats gonna be on repeat for me for some time.
YESSSS!!! Thank you NRP for bringing international performers and making these videos available for the world. A-WA raised my energy and brought me such joy and natural "high" since MUSIC is my "drug" of choice! GRACIAS!
I appreciate music that shares sounds that an international audience can identify with. But I REALLY love being able to understand the message or story that people from other lands are sharing about what it means to be them and what makes them who they are. Thank you A-WA and NPR
Such a great discover. In Europe we don't know enough about arabic music, and the new artists with their new sounds open to the world. Great work! Well done!
i from yemen i love thes songs
This is so much better than i was expected. I just love every song.
Was in one of their concerts in Tel Aviv and they were awesome!
Me too! they are so great live
A-WA enriches the senses with it's inter-tonal qualities and fabulously zesty spirit. Thanks for this NPR!
This is one of the most beautiful performances that I have ever seen. Their voices and the music blends so well.
If u guys like this kind of music u can check israeli band Yemen Blues great band
The music is beautiful, just like these three sisters. Discovered their music recently and I am OBSESSED with their sound.
this mellow, funky groovy style really works with A-WA's music
Thank you tiny desk for hosting such a unique and talented group.
And thank you A Wa, I personally am so grateful being able to enjoy the wonderful experience of hearing such beautiful music. I will honestly say I am a fan from the first song, so gifted.
Good to see them going international (I'm from Israel and have known about them for a while)
they go International very often.
@@EricG-bv2ui i said I have known about them, not that I'm a true fan with an organised life
@@klein8697 my apologies. I though you were talking about NPR not A-WA. Again my apologies for misreading your comment.
@@EricG-bv2ui no I'm talking about A-WA, I'm really bad at following artists careers, it's an all or nothing deal, either I know everything about them from the drama in the making of the album to the colour of their socks or I remember one show they had 2 years ago and like 5 songs I heard on the radio
Edit: fuck it, 'death of the author' and all of that, all interpretations of my writing are valid. nobodys wrong here
@@klein8697 damn why are you attacking him
Thank you NPR, for bringing music around the world!
Love from Yemen ❤
Its different, I really like the diversity of NPR! :)
From yemen , I love the jews and all israeli so much .
Immediately recognized the vintage Korg sound and stayed to listen ... Groovin'! (Thank you for the subtitles)
One of the best NPR tiny desks ever. THANK YOU A-WA!!! And thank you NPR for featuring this amazing band
Have you checked out the Dakhabrakha NPR set?
Love from Egypt 🙏🏼💙💙💙
Oh my!
Congratulations girls!
You got me up and dancing
As an American, I’ve never heard of them, but I’m really digging it.
I'm so glad you had them on!!!! They def deserve a lot more coverage!
I love the way Tiny Desk Concerts expose me to diverse music. This is wonderful.
Great stuff!!! Makes me miss Ofra Haza even more.
Now I want to learn the language to sing like that is so beautiful!!!
it's Arabic
It’s just crazy and thrilling to have stumbled across these wonderful ladies and their brilliant musicians on the Tube, absolutely know nothing about your culture but through your storytelling talent and joyous tunes your background is now in the foreground . Thank you
Fantastic performance...gorgeous vocals and tight band 😎 Thank you for the translation, it really helps to highlight the lyricism!
I really enjoyed this. I couldn't repeat none of this but the energy is AWESOME!! I LOVED IT!!
Shalom brothers and sisters. 🙏
OMG thank you SO MUCH for introducing me to these 3 Queens WOOOWWW I love their swag and harmonies !!!! I dont even read the subtitles bruh I just want to look at them singing, so mesmerizing !!!!
I can feel y'all music, it is sultry, rhythmic, passionate and bright. I feel it 👍
I've been waiting ever since I saw the teaser from A-WA's instagram! This was phenomenal!
Thank you for providing the subtitles.
These lyrics are so powerful.
I wouldn't be able to understand them if not for the translation.
My home is in my head...
Love from Boston USA. So talented❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍
I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would.
Never heard of y'all; music, vocals and energy are really dope😎
Nina Testman ..bunch of Jewish girls that sing in Arabic it seems. sounds awesome
@@danfield6030 uhh... Yeah. A bunch of women whose family migrated from Yemen 50ish years ago. Like many Mizrachi "Jewish girls", Arabic is part of their heritage.
Thank you for poppin up on my feed, a group of three women making music is always great and powerful, let alone three sisters
I love the job you're doing ladies. I am glad some one in this world revives my grand father's culture. Jews has always been there to keep any culture alive! god bless you laydies just keep it up!
Memories of grandma😥
It's so beautiful, best of luck!
I’ve been grooving on A-WA for a couple months now. So excited to hear them on NPR! That was a quick video click, and they didn’t disappoint. These arrangements are even better than the album versions. A+.
Love this so much!! The music is exactly what I needed to hear right now. Beautiful in every way. Thanks for the lyrics translated too.
I almost gave this a pass, I'm really glad I stuck around. Excellent!
איזה כיף לראות אותן סוף סוף בNPR :)
Se merecen eso y más!
Thank you NPR Music for your concept and for inviting those amazing artists.
Everytime I click on one of your videos, I discover jawdropping music and beautiful people.
Cheers, from France!
Refreshing to hear this. Simply brilliant. Thanks for the post.
I love you guys you seriously are like spice girls of Yemen!
Boy this song is circling in my brain for days ... I just love it 😍
I've seen you live in Aachen and was just stunned how great your music sounds. Thank you all very much!
Love this!!
Even better than the original recordings. Thank you NPR.
ayyy
A-WA have officially made it
it's always nice to see a group you enjoy get big enough to get on this channel
"Officially made it" in what way?
@@erikdevries2215 i mean like, tiny desk is a very widely viewed channel. being on tiny desk means that you can go to basically any city and people will have seen you. they were popular before, but only in specific communities. tiny desk basically places a-wa in a position to be seen by millions of people who would not have come across them otherwise
@@TroutBoneless Okay that makes sense. Thanks
Loving the red lip, yes!!! This performance was so good!!!!!!
So excited to see A-WA on Tiny Desk! Love it!
Love the reggae vibe, much love from France ✌
My god Liron is soooooo beautiful!!! 💚💜❤️ They all have such amazing voices!
Das ist toll!!!
I've waited for so long to someone to bring them to western spotlight! love them🖤