Nachum Segal interviews Eitan Freilich | JM in the AM | 7th November 2018

this is America's one and only Jewish moments in the morning radio program heard on listen to sponsored digital radio around the world or whether not calm on an awesome single network and of course the beloved NS n Apple 810 frailest gonna join us in a minute he the the challenge of releasing a brand new album pales in comparison to the challenges that his family has had recently we'll discuss all of this coming up here a ton was scheduled for this morning we gave him the option to postpone he said no we'll explain all of this coming up here at JM in the am but first from the brand-new album released last week by eight on Fralick an album entitled peace will come ya Vosges Shalom it all starts with Eve do a ton Fralick is brand new on a new music alert Wednesday at JM in the a.m. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] - OH - man yo check it out yeah you come my new plan when I call me Tina [Music] see [Music] [Applause] [Music] jam in the a.m. brand-new from a tan frailer [Music] album is entitled devotion alone peace will come it's a new music alert Wednesday and eight on Fralick has with us live via telephone Eitan good morning welcome back to JM in the a.m. good morning at home things like only yesterday that we spoke yeah that's true and let me explain to the audience some of the background of what's been happening over the last few weeks a town and his wonderful wife Gabriella became a proud parents of preemie twins just a couple of months ago and as many people know an eight-ton n and Gabriella have been very open about this and I've been keeping everybody up to date in terms of what's happening in their lives as many people know you Shayan us on the older of the preemies is is progressing burrow hashem and you know I'm somebody who knows a little bit something about the preemie parent experience and burrow Hashem we continue to pray for his reform huh the unfortunate news of course that we learned last week is that avi Don Yehuda has passed away and therefore ate on to you and and your wonderful wife as strange as this sounds but this is the first time we're speaking publicly I'm gonna say Mazel Tov to you while at the same time I will say I hope that you are being comforted with all the good wishes that are coming from around the world you're a hundred percent spot on it definitely is a Mazel Tov you know it's not being an easy Rider's you know and and it's definitely no part the journey has been easy but we've definitely been confident by the messages and by the fact that we were happy and we were I would say blessed to have a you know a beautiful out here precious five weeks with avi done and like both Gabriela and I and I really do speak for both of us and I always speak for both of us when it comes to music because we've got very different tastes but we when it comes down to this and the important things you know we very much agree that you know we we were the lucky ones we had the honor you know to be Avedon's parents we were saying a last week of the Shiva that you know anyone anyone could have could have been his parents and we were the lucky ones to have a son with a pure neshama and and and you know we're just grateful for those precious five weeks oh I mean that with a full heart when we say that but thank you Wow I think there are a couple of important messages here but firstly very often when someone goes through a tragic experience those around them and those in you know the further outer circles around them very often don't know how to respond what to say prefer not to say anything I think you can speak on behalf of those who've been through these this type of difficult situation that you'd prefer to hear from people then not hear from them yeah I mean we sort of learned something along the way it's very hard sometimes people say funny things and silly things and some people do as you said didn't say anything and then some people also you know are very open and they and they tell us their experiences and what we've sort of that is that every one person means well but also unfortunately we've learnt that this this you know there's so many everyone has their own experiences everyone in life has that their troubles and their problems and if they want to be open they should be allowed to be open and if they want to be quiet we thought you know we sort of say to each other then then obviously they should be comfortable in being quiet and ever should everybody everyone experiences things you know originally a couple months ago when we we would come for some scans and whatever we went to one of our like big favorite bagel places and we sat down there and and no one knew anything at that point and we and we looked around the room and we said you know we're sitting here smiling and laughing because that's what we do we always smile and laugh and and and we looked around the room and no one knew anything and everyone else probably also has their own things everyone's got Soros everyone unfortunately but this is this is part of life and and it's just a matter of how you how you deal with it and how you cope with it and our way was honestly we we went downstairs to the consultant who that she delivered the babies and we actually just said thank you thank you he actually is very funny he called himself a tool of God so and you know he is a taught of God he's a messenger and and he said you know you know I tried to do what I thought was best and we and we thanked him for that and we thank hashem for the five weeks we had final night really stated I know and I do want to say something positive is that you know our other son is an intensive-care he so it went back to intensive care but we want to stay positive with him because we feel the words are very very password as well and and if we say positive things and Inuyasha and positive things will happen and and we're very proud of him I was with him too like two o'clock in the morning last night so yeah I mean I can imagine is dominating your life the the first the first point there is something and maybe any you know medical personnel it's tuned in would appreciate this there is something when you're in a situation like this where the doctor acknowledges that I'm only doing my best whatever God can you know can help me do you know let's put it that way and that's very very reassuring to a patient or to a patient's parents when when you know you're dealing with a medical professional who knows that ultimately this is all up to God and I see 100% safe and interesting going from what you've just said is that the doctors had no idea that this was going to happen here was actually IV done you heard that was doing really really well and we said last week how even if he wasn't doing well it's still you know it was her service to plan and obviously it is but the fact that he was actually doing really well and that he he was actually only up and the next day was supposed to come off life support and he was he was doing really really well just shows I thought really was his his time to go he you know that was that was his moment he was supposed to be in the world for five weeks exactly and and and and he bought us I mean he brought us so much strength because I get messages you know we try a whole life to do you know everyone tries in their life to do good things and bring good things to the world but you know our son has achieved in five weeks while many people still haven't achieved I got a message I think big end of last week from somebody who told me that they haven't they've only dozens they struggled with God they told me for for a couple of years and they haven't dove in Sherman a story I mean uh years she said and she wants to thank us she said she'd of earned her her first I made those in a long long time and he she'd opened it for your shyness and for my elder son he's spent in intensive care and she art she asked she said thank you for giving me a reason to speak to him again and I thought that was really really powerful you never know huh you never know you know that you actually you never know and and and that's what we say you know he's brought us strength you know and we want to pass that strength on to everyone that you know everything's meant to be and we truly believe that and I thought it's quite fitting you chose if do as the first song whether it's the first song on the album cuz we wrote that and I'm have you seen how I'm smoothly transitioning this one here okay never we did we honor today we wrote that at a time where we wanted to say that whatever happens every day is a new day and every day the new dan is every day we can find something good in it and I promise you you know that every day since this whole tragic the tragic events have happened we have tried to find something good and every day and and and you know we sort of live by the concept of that and I will Eitan freely get back to the music in a moment I just I want to bring up one other point that I think it's important you know for those of us who are parents who have been told you know your child may not make it through the night and you know we we had that experience so so we obviously have a different perspective on childbirth and and the miracle of it I think that that one of the thing I mentioned this too in the email I sent you I think one of the things that that we can all transmit to others through these experiences is that we all have to remember when someone goes to the hospital and gives birth easily and you know with hopefully a short labor to a help to a healthy boy or girl and then goes home a day or two later we have to remember what kind of miracle that is now how every one of those journeys is so miraculous and thank god we've gotten to a point both in terms of the with the number of children being born Baruch Hashem and with the type of medical situations we have in most of these countries brush them where you know the normal the normal thing is that a child is born healthy thank God and taken home and and that's it and let's go start our lives but I think it's important that these types of things remind all of us who thank God have healthy children that that journey the entire journey is is is such a miraculous one 100% 100% totally totally agree with you very very special I'm telling ya I was in the neonatal department yesterday and I sort of thought you know Hashem must really be with that department because it didn't exist it didn't exist I mean 50 60 years ago they told me it was it never existed I don't know about America but in the UK and and and so it's unbelievable that you know these children are given a chance you know because of medical research and whatever and whatever they do it's very very special I'll share my I feel that Hashem is really really I'll tell you something very fair I mean I'm very happy to say this but in our room an intensive care there's poor babies in a room and at one point they were all Jewish babies and we even said at one point we should put mezuzot on the door yeah and the Baraka Shem all those babies that were in the room except ours but what besides the point all the babies that were in the room have had moved have moved up and and it made me really really happy to hear and we really got friendly with a lot of people there and it's something very very very special and so there is good news every single day you know for these parents and I think that's very very special another real question about all right eight timeframe ups with us live via telephone we continue to dive in for you Shayan ussin he should get stronger and stronger a ton and and and in this entire miracle of his birth and and progress should continue all right we played if dude I mean the history it's funny a lot of people would have put this on hold a lot of people to certainly put this conversation on hold but you're you're ready to remind everybody that you're out there to to entertain to inspire to bring people to a higher level 100 so everyone said to me at the time let's postpone the CD let's postpone any of them and we said why do we stop bringing simpler when we need some fat the most you know this is the time that we need it the most so when was this you know stopping after so when was this officially completed so we actually compete today in August and we wanted to wait till after circus to bring it out so we were you know it was it was a labor of love we started in in January I was at your studio in January and we were writing the songs there I had met with yitzy wouldna and le choix but all the well-known composers i sat down with and and yeah from there it sort of you know spiraled into this amazing project that sort of also happened very very quickly who wrote the who wrote the f do that we started with so if he was was actually one of the producers of the album my friend here one of my very good friends Louis herrschaft he he wrote F do and Sheryl a Shem and if do he compose with you till now so it was a collaboration alright with your permission maybe we should do she relies on though sure Sam is yeah I'm both of their songs if they weren't sure the same with words by Miriam Israeli so even more special and I definitely thinks sure the same was one to play yeah she's a great lyricist and we get a chance to hear this song eight-time Freimuth has with us live via telephone from the UK he had enough time to leave the hospital for an hour to speak with us and and update us on his family situation and on his music situation which is pretty amazing with a brand new album entitled peace will come yea vote Shalom it's called surely Shem it's a new music alert Wednesday at JM in the a.m. [Music] No [Music] he's got [Music] - inside [Music] [Applause] [Music] JME in the a.m. a ton Fralick with us on a new musical eart wednesday a town in the UK we hear in art we are here in our studio in New York our time for a couple of more selections off the brand new album I'd some really good news I like it's all about good songs a time we've discussed this and you really you reached out and found some really good composers for this album now I'm very happy with how it turned out it was a very different album istance the last one because I learn a lot in the in the two years that follows to the sell them and I found that I was able to input basically on every single song I was able to input my own concepts my own from my own experiences and memories through life we when I came to video in January I had visited Eddy Schwab and I took out this book clips from my wedding with which Gabriel actually used under the chuppah and we sort of went through loads of pages and and we got to the end and we found these words and they were very meaningful and special to us and a lot of colors a lot of brides will will will recognize the words this was from the song hush Cana which it ended up hush Cana and we literally wrote it there and then and in there in the booklet of the other my dedicated you know I dedicated a lot of the album to Gabriela but I find it like musicians and singers you know everyone sees them and they sort of forget that at home there's like a wife and family and kids and and whatever and and and they also have a part in their life because ultimately you know where it's not the most sociable job because her without a lot of the nights and it sort of has an impact on their life too so I very much say that Gabriela and I said took I've read it in the album dedication I said you know we live and breathe these concepts in music and and we do we actually do it together although I'm the one thinking it's very much a partnership because you know she's the one that encourages me very much so and and and and definitely encourages me to be out most of the nights of the week so I'm very happy to and this is a very very special song to write with Eddie it's funny you mentioned we'll get to the song they say it's funny you mention that because there are people curious if you're able with everything happened over the last month or two if you're able to yeah keep up anytime of appearance schedule has that III despite this interview I didn't cancel I wanted to say to you guys that I really really wanted to go ahead with the with the interview I don't like cancelling simply as I said to you before you know when you need some credit it gives me the energy it gives me it gives me the power to continue what what we're doing and this is this is what life's mission is and we need to keep going we don't want to stop and do wanna cancel so I actually often a lot of the SIM cards are in hotels I'm in town with my son and and a lot of the simples are nearby so I literally walk over there I don't even have to get a car I walk over I sing then I come back afterwards at twelve o'clock at night I'm allowed 24/7 with my son in hospital so it's sort of a unique experience that I'm having in a moment that's funny the silver lining huh that's exactly you gotta find good in everything are you mentioned hash Caine ah here it is for everybody at JM in the a.m. [Music] yeah he'd not sorry Chevy scenes and he's but a special [Music] beehive but now it's all yeah should be seen as a discord a special [Music] be [Music] uber site [Music] Thanos is what a fashion [Music] Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] Jamin the am brand-new a ton Fralick he's with us live by a telephone I definitely that gives me a big smile nothing because that I brought back memories or the guitar amazing that is a good one yeah I have but how do I put this it's easier for a guy like me if I had it in front of me you guys you guys these days exactly you guys these days insist on putting it on the computer did you actually release a real CD to this or not yeah we did we did we'll get you a copy sent over it was it was it was an amazing experience just sort of taking the front cover picture because the hope the whole point was like to make the album slightly different any other album we wanted we're like how should we do that so so someone had the idea to bring in a drum and we had enough some takers enough for my family photography she took a this picture she had to take about I think 600 pictures with like water gushing everywhere I mean in the worst part of the whole the whole experience because it was quite funny but I think the worst part was like the neighbors coming to complain about the noise of the drumming so that was a particularly experience I went Eversole relieve my leave my mind but I'm looking at it right now so I'm trying to hear what you're saying it doesn't look it doesn't look as complicated as you just described but sort of that took a lot of people involved as well one person was pouring the water one person was doing the right thing one person was holding the drum from underneath it was it was a right right couple to make I'm telling you but it was it was good fun I'm glad you mentioned this because now I see that I'm happy to get wet now I have a greater appreciation of really cover a time frame of oh Shalom peace will come it's a name of the album I assume this is available everywhere which people do who want this album it's available on iTunes on Spotify on Google Play music mostly music literally any way you want it I'm sure it's available as the real CD got into the US yet or not yes yes yes and it's really from and music was telling me yesterday that it's been shipped so all stores so you know if it's not in the store you should let them know and they'll get it in all right it's on frailer Shalom peace will come ask for it everybody and check it out you can search online Eitan will do one more as we say goodbye what would you like to choose off of the brand new album I'm sort of thinking that it wouldn't be right to do an interview with you know some if we didn't play yellow cello okay all right so we'll do the title track listen to you Gabriella - to Cheyenne us on the very best going forward a lot of people out there keeping him in mind every single day as you don't get your shyness and been surrogate those if you could old oven do any good deed an action we'd be really really really great you Cheyenne us and Ben surrogate oh sorry get Oh Sarah Sarah so yeah that's really cool married somebody named Shira just a few times at the wedding I can imagine you sighs my son Ben Shira get though you Cheyenne us and Ben Shira get tall for a referral a m-- and thank you for sharing all that you've shared with us this morning a lot of life lessons from your experience and I hope that I hope the next few weeks really go well and the things and that the the miracle accelerates itself with the help of the one above thank you ain't none and best regards not best regards to everybody and as we said we will wrap up with the title track yevo Shalom a ton frail off the name of the album is peace will come and you are listening to JM in the a.m. [Music] Bianca no 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