"Guilda's Prelude" - Israel Portnoy - Official Music Video

This is the opening track on my Debut (solo) album which is out now on all platforms. It would help me greatly if you could follow me on Spotify too. Here's a link to listen to the album. Thanks! ❤️🤟🏽🙏 https://li.sten.to/Guilda WWW.ISRAELPORTNOYMUSIC.COM "Guilda's Prelude" ("Facing Flames feat. Guilda" Album) Credits: Filmed by: Basti Hansen Edited by: Michio Nagata Sound by: Ohad Darshan Written/performed by: Israel Portnoy It was a hot day, about 11 months ago and I hadn’t touched “Guilda” (my vintage 12-string guitar) in about a month. You would think I would have, considering she was literally all I owned (and if you know me you’ll know I do like guitar and music quite a bit so why wouldn’t ?!). The thing is, I was too wrapped up in the loss of everything. A month earlier (exactly a year ago today in the Hebrew calendar) a forest fire had brunt down our village and thankfully, I had left the house unintentionally holding Guilda so I did have something. Maybe I couldn’t bring myself to play her as I could sense some kind of survivors guilt syndrome - or maybe it was because I was numb and struggling to deal with the loss of everything and the thought of trying to make music so soon after losing so much was sickening honestly. I don’t know what was different about this particular day but I decided to just pick her up and hear what she had to say. Yup, maybe for the first time in my life, just get out of the way of the instrument and let her speak. I know that sounds potentially ridiculous to a non-musician and it maybe, but it’s also true. It wasn’t difficult because I literally had nothing to say anyway and wondered if I ever would again to be honest. But I so desperately needed to hear this instrument sing again. And so.. I picked her up and walked onto the wooden deck in this strange foreign-feeling, temporary, displaced-person commune where we had all be moved to till we figured out what the next move was. I sat down and got out of the way for 10 minutes. And this melody instantly fell out of her. I didn’t judge it. I didn’t “try” to make something and I didn’t dare sing over it. And just like that, I was alive again and through the grace of Guilda (and some help form God), my creative juices were flowing again and this concept album was born. This little prelude contains both hope and sadness and perhaps even some lament, over being the only surviving member of a thriving music room of beautiful instruments, so I figured it would be appropriate to go back to the same, now music-cemetery to record this video, This is "Guilda’s Prelude”. The opening track from my upcoming “Facing Flames” album. On May 23, I’ll be releasing the title track/music video too.