Dudi Knopfler Z Report Interview With Yossi Zweig 3-14-18

as mentioned we said we would have a guest on the phone ladies and gentlemen with us via telephone he was uh interviewed a long time in the making his debut album his hulim his dream has finally happened his album is available in stores he's traveling the world performing and my dream happened too because he's finally joining us live in the air ladies and gentlemen please welcome the one and only doody knuffler hello elsie how are you doing see you had a dream and i had a dream and they both happened yeah the main thing is never give up on your dream and just follow your dreams so you you'll achieve it a hundred percent dodie knuffler with us by telephone we're talking about his debut album released in both hebrew version and uh a regular american version the us version is entitled and the hebrew version is entitled how does it feel to have your dream out there in the world listened by thousands of people worldwide it's a very good feeling after working three years on it and it's finally released and everybody's singing the songs and enjoying it it's a very good feeling it was a shame that i'd be able to do it now since you've been traveling and performing a lot you know i've seen many kumzitsin simchas and stam concerts what is the feedback bin i mean you were in israel a few months ago how are people responding to your album they love edward hashem all over and obviously in israel they love more the israeli songs and america the the the american version for hashem there are some songs that uh international shaykh has and some songs that they're singing all over was the same it's very it's very nice and it's better than expected it's my first album yeah it definitely is you first came to my mind i mean your music yes i've seen your kumsitsas and your your social media posts but when you released uh that video together with uh shira choir enoy movada like that was yeah that was my introduction to the kung fu and it was like getting knocked over in the head because it was like such a spectacular video production scenery and music how did you go how did you come to do that like where did the idea for that come from so it was actually my idea um i i always liked that song it's a it's an original song from shabbat in hebrew and of muhammad i always liked that song and i decided i wanted to do it first in hebrew then i decided why not making a dish so i changed it to yiddish and we made that video it's on bear mountain which she required over 20 members of shirakawa it looks very big right and we made that video and it's it's now up to a half a million views it was a hit the real hit that video wow and attack is the the main comment that i that i keep on getting i'm getting from that video is that um wow that was my favorite song thanks for making it the nearest because it's it's a beautiful song that everybody loved and the thing that i made it and i changed it from hebrew to yiddish a lot of people liked it but obviously and it was a very strong clip yes tonight it's nice everything is good about it now was the yiddish version like a literal translation so to speak of the hebrew or was it like a totally different tragedy yeah no it's just translated yeah everything is the same subject the same way it just means this well i know in my house we loved it i know we added it to the station as soon as it came out and it fast became a favorite dude connect with us via telephone i did mean to ask you a lot of listeners are writing in that you had this ain't novada you had the iva recruit you had uh and you had good but none of them called sovereignty but none of these singles are included on the album why is that um so only one of these single only the last only nothing so the reason why is because i made like all all these songs were covers of other people right it's from leonard from israel um anyway so what was what was keep his sim club cover off so it was a new song because it was in the song right yeah but it wasn't in the album because i felt that it was a big hit and everybody liked it everybody listened to it already they know it's ready i want to bring new stuff now i didn't want to like recycle stuff now for the album people are paying 16 for the album they should get new stuff right so um only one song nakami that i released uh just recently before like a few months ago so that's why i included in the album that was uh i'm trying to remember you released it as a live performance in israel i believe it's a video clip right yeah yeah it's a beautiful song composed by revival yeah gorgeous song beautiful gorgeous song dude knuckler with us via telephone i i must tell you you know before we even get into the album the marketing and the ideas behind this you know this is like the i don't remember the last time an album came out with such marketing and such signage and science science in the store in english a maroon cover a teal cover and everybody's going nuts yeah yeah the key is the key is to give to give for the people what they want and what they like it's either it's in the album either it's in the marketing working time i had i had a very exciting campaign and everybody liked it we definitely like it over here um so you had a lot of arrangers you worked with but i believe you worked with uh a musical director sri blumenfeld now you're a music fan too you've worked you know you you've listened to many albums how did you come to the decision to to only work with one musical director versus i don't know each song going to a totally different uh arranger or not having one person overview everything yeah so um it's not it's not that um didn't arrange the whole album he arranged four songs but he was the musical director you always need to have like one guy that everything is going like there's so many studios and people involved in the album you always need to have one guy that everything is going through him right right so it doesn't get mixed up and it doesn't get complicated so um he was that guy and he he um he also decided together with me obviously he pushed me and which direction to go with with every song like i came to him with 11 songs okay before the music but the songs were final and he he was telling me okay this song go to you whilst he would be the best music for this song this song go to uh ellie klein ichiberry they would be the best for this song right and this song tobacco and this song to young friday so every song he guides me um to whom to go um that's his title musical director he was the musical director of songs he made by himself i think that's very that's very good you know most rangers would say ah just give it to me i'll do it myself yeah i'll do it i'll make the money in fact he's a very honest guy and a very good guy to deal with so um i really enjoyed it yeah so we have yeah we have listener morty stark here on twitter wrote in can you ask dodie which part of he composed because it says composed yeah he wants to know that was an interesting way it was a very interesting way how that song went because when you go to i'll give you example youtube right right when you go to him like in five minutes you can have it on your song if you don't like it um and in the next five minutes you'll have a different song he's very fast and talented and like crazy talented and fast totally different he's an artist he's he's not so fast and so he doesn't have stuff he's an artist he needs to to think and to it's you can hear on the song that it's different songs right everybody has his own taste but every composer has his own way of of uh composing right so barcelona i think we set for five hours and we came up with with just the first part um and so i liked it very much i didn't want to give it away or drop it and he was trying to make a second pass it didn't go i didn't like any second pause on it until i decided that i'm gonna sit down with my keyboard and i'm gonna try to make a second part so i i went up around like a few days until i got that part right that's the second part so the second part is totally mine the first part is totally him so that's not so confusing part a is but b is me did you did you go back to him to see what he thought of the song are you yeah obviously yes when actually when i went back to him he told me i would never do this it's not me but it's totally you so keep it he told me like yeah i i can see he told me i i don't feel like in the second part it's my composition but i feel that you're you're doing it so good and seeing it so good the second part is just you just keep it that's way and we'll make a deal that is amazing yeah dude canelo with us via telephone we're talking about the release of his debut album or halloween speaking of that you know i i believe me and you have a lot similar music taste you know you've probably been a fan of you shall happy don't like i have but how do you get how do you get a sit down with yeeshai and then then decide to compose a song totally in yiddish and in hebrew i know you had shlaimi rosenberg helping you out with the yiddish with the other song but yeshua wrote the hebrew tracks to the the hebrew lyrics too or was that somebody else so yeshua wrote the hebrew lyrics and the melody so he gave me that song the the lyrics the subject the melody and then i just um translate the the lyrics to english for the yiddish version yeah i always loved uh alakatan and all these slow heartwarming songs from ishai right he has a unique israeli touch no he does he does yeah i went to him i actually went to him in israel and latanya once like i think last year when i was maybe two years ago already when i was in israel and i sat down with him he showed me some stuff we composed some stuff but anyway and then i took this song beautiful song now tell me dude is it hard straddling both worlds over here you're you're hasid man you know you're doing kumsits which is which is becoming more accepted in the chevelle but over here your title track is talking about wanting to move towards straw which you know has always very they love artistrol but you know they have to worry about straddling the zionistic uh offense over there you getting any any any flack any anybody's upset at you about it or everybody's accepting it the way it is no bern i explained it very clear to everybody in the marketing in the marketing that i am like i'm a cathedral i'm not a father i'm officially i belong to trump's from israel my mother is israeli i mean i can talk hebrew there's no problem okay for me to sing in hebrew i love hebrew songs i love all salami i love all their songs and and i love to sing it and i have a lot like half of my clients um are modern people and they like the israeli stuff i love to do it um the only reason like the original plan was to release only the hebrew not the english even okay um but i decided that i decided that and it wasn't my own decision a lot of my my clients that live in monroe or williamsburg to stop my clients and they have a problem with hebrew they don't want to listen to hebrew they told me please there was much begging to me to to do a huge vision because they're not going to be able to buy the city to show it to the children because they'll have problems with the hebrew but then i just then i decided okay why not i'll make you use a unity version too so i'll i'll gain i'll i'll sell more copies in in monroe and williamsburg right right and my clients all my clients will be happy and and by the way like monroe and williams were in the stores were only the yiddish version and then if you went in bar park you you could and then a month you could buy both and probably in in flatbush they were only the hebrew version so i actually i actually had that question for you and i was very confused i know a lot of people were you had to put out a video explaining what the two versions were why in america why in america didn't you just release the teal with you know the bonus track of the hebrew album versus releasing two full-fledged different covers different everything um it's also a part of the marketing to have two colors and two cds so when you come in the store you see two cities instead of one right okay you just you just need to decide which which one of these two you're going to take not between this and the other city right but the difference was what it was one one track or two tracks that were different two tracks it's a halamshiri my dream that song and then it's also um i think it's track number eight it's um um right right dude knuckler with us via telephone talking about the release of his debut album uh listener shmuel in chicago i think he wants to start up with you he says if dude he hadn't do that if dude he had a dream to move to israel why didn't he save the money from the album and moved to israel so i was actually i was actually at uh radio obviously you know him right yeah sure um in israel he's the artist of israel right yeah as they say i so i went to him and for an interview and he asked me i don't understand mbd avraham freed jakob schweke and now you are telling me that your dream is to live in israel all the years i've heard this from mbt from from all the big singers my dream is to live in israel but why are you living in new york still a good good question i think it's the same question anyway so i told him that's why it's my dream that's why it's still my dream but but no i it's really my dream and i actually have a lot of friends i can probably more than 10 friends who live who moved from from my area from muncie really from my school from my school that i'd have in the last year to to israel yeah i i'm like i i really love israel and i hope together one day look i do too it's not so it's not so easy with the family and with the career to move that's why i'm still here but no i agree with you my wife would move in a heartbeat me i just can't figure out how life would work you know the the the way of life is very different it's a place it's a place it's the place for you to be it's like you feel at home in israel right right definitely yeah um earlier we were speaking about yeti walnut i see you have bursham uh about three four songs here three songs three songs yeah so tell me did these three songs happen in one hour you weren't happy with a song and you went to another one or was it a little bit longer than that let me think i'll think um i'm actually i went down to him two times the first time i got two songs um i got the overreach and the philosopher song and then i went down like that was in the beginning of the series was my first song that i picked for this evening okay um and then like by the end of the sea at the end of the picture songs um probably a year later i went down again for animation for the disco song i happen to like that song a lot listener sarah in l.a says it's track six trilogy did he do this because there was already a trilate from schwaki and he wanted you know something for the other side or the this is just what you see it's a good question it's a good question i'll explain you how that song went like by the composition so um it was turns the melody for one year um guitea won the compose of that melody okay the whole song and we didn't found the correct words for it i always felt like from the beginning when he composed it that it's a fancy heartwarming song but together it's like a corporate song okay i felt that i should find copper lyrics on it i always searched for copper legs and it's hard to find copper layers because i think there's basically songs on on every and every hope league that you can find and um you don't want to over you don't want to have another another right right yeah i tried by every song of the album not to to to redo some lyrics that somebody else was already so so um until i found that filler from the kiddo that he wrote he used to write very nice rhymes so that's a thriller from him that he wrote for houston and um i actually put it onto that lyric and i matched that link to this to the melody she helped me um to finalize it and then we just we we we were thinking together which which name can we give like um uh hinay but who is this like which which name can we give it it's a whole it's it's a lot of lyrics right like like a yeah who you know you know right away it's a blast it's going to be titled right right but it's a lot of lyrics but that's why also i'm um the schweiki one it's because it's a lot of lyrics but it's basically it's filler for the color so you name it this was its villa for the so we named it it's also it's not salad it's phyllis everybody does ellie schwab is an amazing composer what kind of yes yeah but um speaking of yesterday track 11 you'll see green i mean that that's the masterpiece we have dude knufler you know uh relatively newcomer and he has barack chait and he has yet to see walter and he has baroque sholom he has duty collis and he just keep going i see here um mati ilovich and of course pinkie weber but then you know you see green like you know what was that experience like for you you've probably grown up listening to to daddy like all of us and everything and everybody else that y'all see you can still you can still um you can still ask kelsey green it's probably a song that he will never forget the composition of it because it's a song that has um if i if i'm correct i think it has nine parts to that song like nine rhythms okay so every part of the song is a different rhythm different melody it was the whole puzzle to make it leapish monster wrote the lyrics and then we went with the lyrics from little who went to yossi green and he wrote the song on the lyrics from lipper so it was a hard song for him didn't take one minute took a few hours and then i went back to him for another few hours and um first time i knew exactly what i want so the broken time he could like probably just green is the only one that could make me happy and and compose exactly what i wanted so um that's why i went to him and broke himself it's beautiful it's a masterpiece it's it's a whole it's basically it's it's a show it's a i don't know how to call it it's it's the whole song it's like a play it's like a doodoo fishes song if you if you understand the word like uh with the name so back and forth to all story is it track 11 we're talking about shiro has composed yeah and she required also as um it's yeah it's it's um it's a very interesting song it's not a it's not a typical song that everybody can see it's a song that you need to practice like if i i never did it live even after the album because it's such a hard song it's it's like if if i would do it live we'll probably need me and the band the music and the choir will probably need a few weeks of practice so if anybody's hiring dodi for a wedding please request track 11. oh no please man so we see lipa schmeltzy here now was was lipa helping with these lyrics at the same time that he gave you shaykh or was this uh no no no no um probably a year later yeah now your leap of connection is because of muncie or just you know throughout the years no i think it's throughout the years um he's actually my cousin also that's right i remember hearing that at some point yeah that's what he is and music i went to him i heard songs he's very talented like you gotta know how to sneak out the good stuff yeah definitely and um yeah so you gotta catch it when he has it because he jumps so fast from thing to things yeah he's so fast like when you you're starting to think he finished already so dude i got to tell you opening an album with a shorthand you know shaking out is very defined you know everybody has a shortcut you know you know what they're doing in show yeah you gotta have that is the beginning it's the beginning of chakras too right it definitely is but you have to have github to try to compose for a new singer you know yeah yeah nice song and and i'm i'm using it to start the second dance by wedding really i didn't know that yeah yeah it's it's a beginning and then you have the song right definitely it's a good pumping song arranged by ellie klein it's he buried the talented duo from israel of course as uh delhi said all the music was under the musical director the leadership of sweet bloonfeld who seems to know exactly what he's doing because he was able to hook him up with slimy rosenberg ellie clinton t barry tsv himself uh lele biakov wriggler was a gorgeous gorgeous arranger who did as well as avrami berkow the kalash and more the album is in stores now you can get the hebrew or the u.s version rather than someone told me really recently you started getting into video production um me yeah you i'm working on my videos now i'm working on the album build secret which song but obviously i'm working on a beautiful music video as i did in the past already i never let anyone anyone down on my my music videos so um yeah i love to do video i love the to imagine the story and then bring it out from the video so um i'm working now on one of the songs of my album well good we're looking forward to see it do you think we'll be able to see it by like boy and retirement before paisley still i don't know i don't think i don't think that uh before sweet it's a big project that video but um let me at the same time yeah okay well you guys know what to do you gotta subscribe to do the canon floor on youtube i guess if you want to see it first right yes doody i want to wish you a hakushon samaya aslukaraba we're loving your album my pleasure thank you so much yes it was a pleasure talking to you thank you we're going to play you out here with some anima because we discussed it and our listeners love it take care dodie have a great day all right thank you let's look that ladies and gentlemen was dude knufler here he is with anima and you my friends are tuned into the zeroport live on the jewish entertainment network [Music] yes 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