{"product_id":"a-time-to-cry-cd","title":"Rim Banna, Wissam Murad, Nai Barghouthi and Jawaher Shofani \/\/ A Time to Cry \/\/ CD","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnder the title \"A time to cry\", KKV is now releasing a CD recorded this spring in a threatened Palestine home in East Jerusalem.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFour Palestinian voices, led by \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRim Banna,\u003c\/b\u003e sing to a packed audience jostling together in the small rooms in the house where 90-year-old Rafiq Al-Kurd and her family live in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood. Many of the local inhabitants have been forced to move after brutal night raids where Israeli settlers have thrown them out of their houses and taken over their homes. The singers perform their laments to the accompaniment of a Norwegian\/American band. Some of the songs have been written for the occasion, others are old traditional songs from Palestine. With the heading \"A time to cry, a lament over Jerusalem\" they join a 3000 year old tradition in Jerusalem: Weeping and mourning for the city that so often has let its inhabitants suffer at the hands of greed, hate, misguided religious zeal and lust for power.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRim Banna, Wissam Murad, Nai Barghouthi\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJawaher Shofani\u003c\/b\u003e have chosen from two to four songs each. The target audience for their songs is us in the West; the big world far away from the little country on the innermost shores of the Mediterranean. We who for far too long have silently allowed the Israelis to break up the last bits of land that were once assigned to the Palestinians. In recent years, this fragmentation has taken on the cloak of systematic ethnic discrimination in Jerusalem, and Israeli settlers, supported by Israeli soldiers and police, are allowed to commit criminal offences against Palestinian families. Their houses are stolen and children and elderly people are brutally thrown out into the street. The purpose is unambiguously expressed by the most aggressive settlers: They want to stop the Palestinians from ever being able to call Jerusalem their capital. This strategy is actively supported by the actions of the Israeli authorities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Norwegian musicians taking part in the project are \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHallgrim Bratberg\u003c\/b\u003e (guitar), \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKenneth Ekornes\u003c\/b\u003e (drums) and \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGjermund Silset\u003c\/b\u003e (bass). \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSteve Gorn\u003c\/b\u003e from the US plays oriental flute and clarinet. The CD was recorded under extremely difficult circumstances; the project’s success could be threatened if the Israelis broke up the house concert. A backup solution was prepared so an extra set of equipment was on standby at a hotel in the area, but in contrast to a number of Palestinian cultural events in East Jerusalem lately, this concert was allowed to proceed without interruption.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe idea for the project was conceived a year ago when the staff of KKV were on a study trip in Jerusalem. Here they met some of the families who had already been evicted by the Israelis, and this was the impetus for this musical act of solidarity in cooperation with the Palestine cultural institution \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYabous\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRim Banna is very well known to many Norwegians after the duet with Kari Bremnes on the CD \"Lullabies from the Axis of Evil\" and three solo records released by KKV.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe young girl Nai Barghouthi, 13 and from Ramallah, recently won a Palestine talent competition. Wissam Murad is a songwriter and a former soloist in the group Sabreen, and Jawaher Shofani has been a wedding and funeral singer in Galilee throughout her long life. She also participated on \"Lullabies from the Axis of Evil\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eErik Hillestad\u003c\/b\u003e has produced the project, funded by \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNorwegian Church Aid\u003c\/b\u003e and the \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWorld Council of Churches\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTrack list:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. A time to cry - Rim Banna                                                                      4:37\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Flower of cities - Nai Borghouti                                                            6:17\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Oh land - Wissam Murad                                                                      5:22\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Flood of tears - Jawaher Shofani                                                         7:30\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Al Quds Everlasting - Rim Banna                                                         4:28\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. Mum, sing to the wind - Nai Barghouti                                                3:24\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7. Oh flying bird - Jawaher Shofani                                                          2:57\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8. Fly, and slow down, goose - Rim Banna                                              3:50\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9. The Stranger cared about me - Jawaher Shofani                               4:42\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10. 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