Eitan Freilich "Am Yisrael Chai" Z Report Interview with Yossi Zweig | 1st June 2016

ladies and gentlemen you're tuned in to zport live lunch nak Network three minutes past the hour it's probably somewhere in the 80s outside today with us via telephone ladies and gentlemen all the way from Britain the UK should be the one and only Eton fre hey hello nice to finally speak Eton fre how are you my friend I'm great BR how you doing you know I can see you're looking great I'm watching we tried to see if can live Facebook while I live Facebook but uh it didn't quite work out but at least one of us is viewable next time next time aan I must tell you you have some amazing fans out there from the feedback we've seen on both during the programs both the 9 at9 and the zport live lunch on Twitter Facebook I mean how have you accumulated so many fans in such short they really they really they really are amazing I I guess it's through the music right good music brings good fans definitely I see here I got a message from Gabrielle Stein boox saying when you're in interview Aon please tell him his number one fan from London says his warmest regards and wishes Hima for the upcoming music video Oh Me Oh Me yeah you've caught you've caught me at a very busy you've caught me a very busy time it's very exciting so you just got back you just got back from erell where are you off to today I I hear you're you're you're boarding another airplane so yeah so I I actually just got back um on Sunday and I had an exam had to take my final exam for my degree on Tuesday and then I thought you know what today I'm going to have a day for myself and then tomorrow I'm flying again uh back to back to Israel to start shooting the film oh you're shooting your video in Israel yeah it's all happening yeah so uh who you shooting with so so here's the story with the music video um Mendy penin wrote the script and then um we've got an amazing production team of um Aron Arian but it's directed by you know his his production team correct yeah yeah yeah and it's being directed by Haden who Direct did the um the shwy at record video oh wow so you you have an All-Star team there it's brilliant so she actually so it's not Mendy pen script she's Rewritten the script based on his script so it's going to be a really interesting experience it's not all finalized which is true to form for an Israel production nothing is exactly planned until we get there Happ funny because we have a British guy that came to America for an American production on the album And now when he's doing a music video he's going to the other side of the world what do you have what do you have against well listen the song is I'm and that's the song we're going to do it for and the only place to do it is in Israel no definitely if that's if that's the situation that that's the song you're doing uh sediment is right that's definitely what what you're what you should be doing and that's what you that's where you should be filming it we are Facebooking live right now we have y Dickman uh composer producer Ranger extraordinaire tuned in shy barck and more so we're going to see if we got any questions from our viewers and listeners here on the app uh the I have a question here um how did you get started you know when did you first begin to have the idea of playing around with an album so it's an amazing it's an amazing question I get asked this quite a lot um so actually originally started I was speaking to Yosi green and I wasn't thinking of doing an album I was thinking of just putting out a single and uh I spoke to Yosi green and I spoke to Yosi brisman both of them encouraged me more to move into making an album and uh and once I had the idea of doing the album they told me I need to look for a producer and I spoke to you quite a lot and I spoke to Simon Karen and both of you advised me very much to speak to ai ai Newar who ended up working with me and introducing me to all these composers and he introduced me to to Yan Freon he introduced me to everyone in the industry from there with a lot of guidance from you with a lot of guidance from Simon cow and it was uh that's kind of how it all started well that that's definitely a big Journey but I mean it was about a year ago right I called you about a year ago to this gu yeah a little bit more than a year ago yeah I mean this was yeah yeah I'm sure you you didn't expect a year and a half ago that this would be as long of the journey as it was and you know what and it's still ongoing it hasn't even stopped it's still going but the question is I guess I would I would ask you regardlessly of the music video is this something you see yourself doing now in the future you know this music is is going to be your life you're going to be releasing albums or is this a one time TR no 100% like I'll tell you we we bought out the album and it's been amazing um I seen video clips of people dancing to songs in lva um Ari gwag just brought out the arella version and he included halila one of the songs from my album on his on his on his album it's been like re it's been reprinted in England I've been signing copies in Israel it's been in nearly like the nearly any every media Outlet it's been in it's just been it's been incredible like I've seen clips of people singing it over L but singing songs from the album I get Clips nearly daily iTunes i i a list it it's been on it was on the top of iTunes for quite a while it's just been it's just been an incredible experience and it's saying that you know that this is what I want to do this is what I've been giving it my ton I want to keep I want to keep doing it I could definitely hear that Adam Sash on Twitter says loving this interview excited for the video so now if expectation is going to be that high right now you know H H how do you make sure that the video is going to be one of the best things that people are going to see if you look at the album we we spent a long time on it with the album we spent a long time we want to make sure we get good quality we didn't release it for a while because we wanted to make sure it was the best it could be so it's going to be the same with the video it's very important to have the right team it do you know what's great I have hadasa who's an incredible director and I I actually went I flew to Israel um last week just to sign the papers and to meet her and I went also a couple weeks ago just to meet her so she could understand me she could bring the best out in me she could bring bring the best out in the lyrics it's all about the lyrics for me um to bring out the song and that's actually why I wanted to meet all the composers because I wanted to speak and I met as many as I could and I spoke to every single composer when we brought out the album so I wants to understand their intentions when they wrote it because ideally you know when they write a song their aim is to inspire to be mik and I have to transfer that over so it's the same with the video I need to transfer over what Eli Schwab was thinking when he wrote am I need to try and uh uh um give that over to the viewers interesting you should know when when am was going stronger than 9 at n Ellie sent me a text message about how he got the guy to write the lyrics and how it was such a a unique story that you know a friend of his that he hasn't spoken to in years just touched Bass with him was a little bit more modern than him and and he helped it was incredible yeah I have to tell you I can tell a quick story I was I was on on Friday night I was at the David sister D in y sh I don't know if you know the living room the not the living room the dining hall is overlooking the whole of Y shal and it's it's a beautiful it's really really beautiful and around us there were loads of tables there were like American visitors there were Israel visitors there was a a table of Yesa B there was it was it was incredible and in front of us our table there was a whole table of safm and Moroccans and they it was beautiful they were singing their their zir they were singing songs and then we'd sing a song and then they'd sing a song We Sing I was really funny we' have a lot of banter they were giving me they giving me a lot of arach they were offering me a lot of it and and it was a beautiful moment where we were all singing we were all singing each other's songs and then I looked around the room and I saw that all the other tables were all singing along with us it wasn't just our table and their table everyone was joining along and I don't know what got into me I really don't know what got into me but I stood up and I just started singing and the whole the whole dining room like the whole it was was singing together and it was a beautiful moment for me that was like the peak that was like amazing and then what happened was even worse the the B boss of the Safar table stood up and he got the whole he he was like going sh got the whole whole the whole room was quiet and he said now you sing your version and it was incredible I just started singing and when it got to the chorus everyone was singing together and it wasn't it not just it was it was beautiful everyone was singing together literally we none of us had met each other we were just singing together but it was even more beautiful that we were singing it overlooking your so for me that was like that was like incredible that was a story so really did do very well well that that sounds spectacular uh tell me a time what was it like uh working with AB new Mark I mean it must have been daunting a little bit because here's this guy brought dou gab to the Forefront brought brought uh Benny Freeman to the Forefront has been involved in several projects with big names and he's interested in you now now granted you're you're a client that's hiring him but I mean uh he must have been intimidating a little bit now it was it was it was brilliant I have to say 100% you're right at the beginning I was intimidated 100% then I met him and I realized you know what he's a very very he knows exactly what he's talking about and I didn't let him get away with everything there's a lot of things that we discussed but ultimately he was usually right on most things and do you know what um you said that I I hired him I've learned something that Avy new Mark won't just accept anyone that's what I've learned he's he's a guy for Quality you said it before about the video how I make sure I get high quality this guy AV Mark only wants quality and and so does yan yan frea as well equally as talented they're both talented in different ways and they both want quality so for me I had a great team and AI was he he had a wealth of experience and he gave an incredible advice uh he still does we're very good friends we still text uh we're looking at options for doing the next album from from the day after the album came out we started looking for more songs we're still looking for songs well we're happy to see that Yehuda Bradley's writing in from a Israel please tell Eton that his album is amazing especially Hala USA and Amai thanks thank you H thank you so uh it's it's actually great because I got to meet Ari goldwag and we've also become very good friends I speak to him quite often as well and he wrote halila and he wrote K he did so uh two brilliant was that a picture of you with a long beard and him with a long beard during SP well I can grow my beard properly right I see uh Judy on the app who's a big fan of yours she helps pushes you says she's glad they finally hear you in person and uh I guess she's waiting for you to do a show over here in New York so but I hope to come I hope to come to New York nothing's planned nothing's confirmed but I do hope um potentially to be in New York in July so that will also be exciting and hopefully I'll get to meet a lot of you well we are definitely looking forward would you believe that me and aan have never met in person yet ladies and gentlemen not not yet yet we will am we will that just shows you what you can do with technology you can speak to people around the world you can help them and give them advice but you never have to actually meet anybody I remember when I was in Israel two years ago it was the first time that I actually met shyar Rock to the Greenwall shua freed all these guys I've been talking to them for years and playing their music but uh sometimes you don't get to hear everybody anyways atan I'd like to thank you I'd like to wish you much is there a website by the way for you Aon yes ef music. co.uk ef music EF ATF music. co. .co.uk albums available on iTunes in stores available in stores available from ader music on mostly music.com as well uh Eton I was trying to pick a song to play you out with today I know which song you probably thought I was going to play but I'm not playing that song I'm actually I'm actually gonna play track eight for some reason this track uh for me just shows off your vocals in in a different way that the rest of the album doesn't track is entitled Aisa composed by YY walner arranged by Yan freder backup vocals by ysy by the way I must mention y did a spectacular job on this and the fact that Ari goldag was was able to use some of those choir lines that you don't get to hear that much in the song because there's music there but now to hear yes they brought out the purest form definitely definitely did that anything you can tell us about the song before we let you go Aon it's just a start this is a song that AI num particularly liked this is the one he wanted and you and you didn't is that what you say no no no no I did this is a beautiful song a really really wanted it and I knew he was right it's a beautiful beautiful song and as you said y spinner really adds with the backup vocals on this song he really ads well aan I want to wish you much great job looking forward to the music video thanks for having me thank you no problem atan there you go ladies and gentlemen atan F all the way from the UK and that wasan FR we're gonna go 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