Moshe Tischler "Modeh Ani" Z Report Interview With Yossi Zweig 5-20-20

1201 one minute after 12 o'clock and like we said we would bring my dishla on the air so let's do that right now just released his debut album modani why is she there how you doing how you doing thank god thank you for having me on the show early morning for you my friends early morning yes yes yes it was a jam-packed day jam-packed day somebody she just released his debut album literally about a week ago came out last tuesday like bowman right correct you are breaking boundaries on every on every turn my friend i gotta tell you as of a day or two ago my sheep puts on social media 100 000 streams 100 000 streams that's crazy in my shoe i mean you expect anything like that to happen um none of my wildest dreams no i i would never have thought that would happen it's uh it's pretty crazy it was something that i was wowed by i was true i gotta tell you you know people they're not sure what a hundred thousand streams mean does that mean that the album was played a hundred thousand times does that mean a song was played a hundred thousand times so let's tell them how it goes maishi hundred thousand streams means that songs off the album were played a hundred thousand times correct correct correct so don't that doesn't mean that they listen to the full album a hundred thousand people but that does mean that mo dhani could have had about uh thank you thank you i'm very excited um i got to meet you the first time in person was last circus by the emmy boys choir concert right um i think yeah is that the first time we met that was the first time we met we've talked over the phone we've sent each other so we've sent you some songs back and forth that was the first time we met um it was i think your first major concert and it was very cool because we had the yoni z one night and it was david the other night and um i think some kalina was there and we had a good schmooze backstage about you know what what the right route was music video not music video style of music um the one the one comment i'm getting about your album from everybody first of all is that it's a very solid well-rounded album uh not one particular style about anything on the album and that i guess is the kudos to your team producer mandy hirschkwitz and the team at sonic duo which would be mendy and schlemey zaltzman correct now you and zeltzman go way way back oh yeah you guys go back to your yeshiva days so um men uh schlemmy just joined mindy up recently in sonic duo obviously probably around the time your album was created but how much of a hand did uh schlemmer zeltzman have i see he arranged two songs in the album but how much more of a hand did he have in the actual album making friend was very very involved so i mean you know not only was he involved in listening to different arrangements that people sent in and you know giving good comments also on them they also hooked us up with a few people like somebody like mandy portnoy who arranged brachamaruba somebody like dave who arranged misrata these are people that um schlemmy got us in touch with and that's how we have such a well-rounded album competition yeah i got to tell you know when i got the album from you a few weeks ago i was like blown away because hazakim the opening track by udida mari first of all it's a typical udi song meaning you're going to love it from the start it's fresh it's vibrant but it just starts off with that you know that cry there's like no musical intro there's nothing it's just like it's like pounds you in the face yeah now what did that demo sound like mike did it sound as similar to the song as we hear was it very different before it was fully arranged it was actually uh i think he said when he sent it to us it was about around the same arrangement and the same uh song we decided to put this at the opening to try something different and have the album start with your singing who does an album and bam singing right away so something different and we thought it would be pretty cool and especially because it's a great zone so was it was it a hard decision deciding which song to open the album with i mean you know mandy's been on production of many albums this is probably the first you know major production that he's uh solo produced himself you know a new artist the debut album but um how you know how involved were you the artist in the actual song positioning on the album so me as me as a singer in general um any song that i come out with or any like production in general i'm very very hands-on very very hands-on i listen to everything give my own you know you know i actually i don't like this i like this and then you know even sometimes i'll even just put my like i'll have my own twist in my head of like maybe like a musical thing that i thought of and then you know mandy or slimy will play it out for me um and that's how i am with with all the stuff that i do try to be very hands-on that's amazing my is with us via telephone talking about the release of his debut album moda ani maishwan i so when we met uh that year sukkas by the name boys choir show you told me you were kicking around ideas about certain producers i don't believe you signed with anyone specifically at that time what was it about mandy hirschwitz that said um that's it mendy's the one for me i have to go with mandy as my producer um so i just basically when i was looking around for summer to produce my album i look back to the people who when i originally before i even started in this business i was singing at a friend's copa a friend asked me can i sing at his sister's sculpture so i said sure i'll sing my sister and mendy was actually playing the next day i got a call from mendy that he wanted to sign me this was about three and a half years ago um and then a day later another producer called me so i you know i saw that i had something in this business and i didn't sign with anybody and when i when i was looking to do it i was like you know mendy was one of the first people to reach out to me i know menzie never actually produced a full album by himself and i love wendy's style i love you know his when it comes to music he's a genius on all this uh stuff so i decided i'm going to try something different go to mendy hirsch with and i asked around and everyone's like great idea and we pulled through and there are have to be a very a lot of creative uh sounds on this album in general you know i mean uh track two which yes when i put it on my instagram i made a mistake saying that um i said i think about the illuits composed the material said not it's actually you see barry who composed it which is funny because it's like it sounds like a hashtag song and i i gotta compliment you on the halvora it's not easy to get you know that havora and all the yiddish there but multi gave additional lyrics but that song too has a very unique different sound than the first track you know you think you're gonna get something with the same kind of sound it's still a fast and and pumping song but very very different than the first track yes uh that happens to be i think one of the hardest things of this whole album since i'm not happy and i don't speak yiddish getting the right pronunciation for all the yiddish was pretty hard you know i just sitting with mendy and um i recorded this song in garcia schwartz's studio so both of them are kasudish and they have so they're they were telling me no say like this nope you're doing it too strong nope and it was back and forth and you know hashem it was you know paid off you know gershy actually does a lot of those yiddish voice-overs so you're getting it like from the horse's mouth right there you know you're not stop getting a guy that speaks yiddish but a guy that makes you this announcements i think it was in muncie they had an announcement about about masks and staying in your car uh but they had to record it in yiddish for the however i think ghirshi's voice is the one you hear doing that so you're really getting it directly from the source yeah i guess she does a lot of stuff yeah um going on with the album maishi i wanted to talk about uh the israeli stuff now this is something you know when you released your yushairi bow cover toho tsufa i mean you're one of these guys that thrives on this um israeli style and israeli javara is that is that something that comes easily for you that you picked up while learning an answer or is just something that you always uh had a connection to yes i'm saying i always loved you know israeli kind of music um regarding the israeli havarrah i when i was in yeshiva in israel a very very close friend of mine wanted me to learn a song and i had to learn it and then he taught me how to you know properly have the right of uh right and and i kept practicing practicing practicing and i you know i got pretty good at it i guess but there are some heavy influence tracks here it's not like one or two tracks with you know that are israeli style you have a quite a correct so once once i started doing it i you know i love i love i'm very i'm very much inspired by the stuff you know i i like the style so i guess that's more or less the style i tried going for now was there a shopping list of composers to go to because i see it see walnuts over here and i think everybody thinks they have to get et walnut track but uh the song has such a a summary poppy vibe to it was that something that took a long time once once you met with yitzi or was this one of the first objects uh first samples that he gave you so people who know yeti you see when it comes to composing you sit down with them 10 minutes later you have a song that's how he is he's just a genius would like that he sits on a piano bam knocks out songs left and right and there's a reason why he's made so many hits right he's just a genius so definitely yes i did want to go to etsy and get some songs from him um the one song that he talks about i'm guessing is rachael correct um was one of one of the first songs that i i got from him the one song that i was that shocks a lot of people that he composed is nerdo lay nerd the lake is very much not a gifty walnut style song not at all very composed and i was right when he composed it played the song i loved right away and b i was like it's like a finish so i needed that i got to tell you this is technically the second nearest song you got from yitzik considering you're a single uh nearest shabbos which of course why why was that song not put on this album a lot of people have been asking us about that so i put out two singles before bishfieli and trio saneros people ask me yeah why didn't i put it on yeah i was looking for i wanted to do original material on this album you know it was it was a talk it was a talk to actually put it on um both songs and then i decided i'm like i might as well you know we kept getting songs on my kid this song's amazing so and then i got another song okay this song is also amazing and by the time we finished we had 12 songs on the album like i'm not gonna put out a 14 song album so that's really why it didn't get on well that makes sense and in any case i believe the other two tracks are available digitally online anyways right correct they're available everywhere yep um this is why telephone talking about the release of his debut album track nine that we were just discussing near delek you have a guest star now debut artists generally aren't going to put on another unreleased artist on his track you know they might put on their sons their brothers their fathers or if they get a big singer they put them on uh what was the thought process behind featuring um alicia of that yasi green i believe introduced to the public when he had him sing at one of his children's weddings recently so that same exact wedding i was also hired to sing at right i sing at that wedding um now at that wedding it was i believe a few days before or about a week before i went to uc world and we composed this song uh netherlich at the wedding i um i saw shlomi i didn't know him i never heard him sing and i went with him and i said you know i have a song i showed it to him and he liked it a lot i'm like do you want to do it with me he said sure i think again but i had no clue how he found this right and then at the wedding and then at the wedding he started singing i'm like okay i think i just hit the jackpot with this guy listen i i'm very into just you know if somebody's good why not i don't it's not like you need a name to get out there somebody's good who has a great voice i'm i'm game to have him on my album i hear you but you know from a music standpoint if he has a voice that's spectacular like yours you know it might a little bit take away from your voice you know it's just something something people would think about twice before just saying okay let me go ahead and take another guy that has a stellar voice and put him on my album if it's about the song away i thought it was i thought it was going to i thought it was just going to enhance the song and well i forgot from what i can see online it looks like the song is doing very well and it looks like people really enjoyed the blend of youtube voices together so uh call it to that um this is the first track you released from the album uh amor kai brazil song produced by donnie gross i got to tell you between slimy's arrangements and donny and mendy you know these are the sounds we're used to hearing from some of these uh arrangers over here it's like everybody really upped their game in the last few last few months yeah everybody's arrangements became like wow quality so i got you know boxing i was fortunate to work with such amazing musicians and people and we got the quality that we wanted now what was it about this song that this had to be the title track and the first music video coming out from the album um first of all the message um you know the song it was actually very funny how we got more danny rizzo came down to the studio one day and he was showing us a completely different song and while he was there he's like whatever i have a different song you know i'm i'm not for sure selling it right now but here what do you think of it and the other song we liked were like you know we weren't like jumping on it right away it was it was a great great great song we weren't like we'll probably take it but you know also he showed us this modernity and we're like okay so where do we sign and we love the song and right when i we right away literally in the office me and men are like okay fine this is gonna be song 4 on the album title track song 4. how did you know that so fast we just said right away it was like it was one of those things that just came yeah title track could be the first song could be the third song but you guys already had a thing i guess you you knew where things were going to go progress later yep amazing marcia tishler with us avaya telephone mike tell me how has this uh covert 19 hit you how has it changed the way you've gone about your day and about your business you know i was i just did an interview this morning and i did an interview last week um and last week i got asked the question from shimyadzar what do you take out of this i said hashem you know i get to spend time with my wife which i haven't had time and i mean i have time of course but i'm saying i didn't have a lot of time to spend with her because hashem i'm very busy singing right um and now now i have all the time to spend with her so some that's the best thing so tell me um have you seen any numbers in physical copies you know being that people aren't really going to store as much nowadays uh stores as a matter of fact here in new jersey just in new york they're just starting to open the next in the last day or two but they're only open for curbside pickup i mean are people ordering cds from your distributor for for shipping online or or do you see more a big number of digital copies being purchased so i'll tell you the truth i don't you know i don't know yet just because it's been a week usually the reports come in like a month or so after right um i know that a nice amount of people ordered from my website i shipped out about 25 copies from my from my own website and a nice 30 people ordered the download one so you know i i believe people are still ordering the hard copy and listening to it on uh streaming so i guess when we got the reports in a month you know i don't know yeah those are because all those people they use their phones for music but nowadays their kids are using their phone for school instead of going back to the old-fashioned way of using a cd player listen to music now um me and you we're big music fans you know we talked music shop when we were there at that concert and i believe we did i think the pesach concert after that um one of the guys we were talking about was a guy that released the song that sukis um it was uh off his brand new album there was a first single off uh bark sholum um and i'm browsing through your album and i see hey mike's got a track from brock shulham so well you know talk to us a little bit what was that meeting like uh how easy was it to find that one track was bark show did he have a lot of songs to show you and and they were negea uh how did it go so we called both sean up and we're like you know we wanna first of all we sat down with a lot a lot of composers we tried city we wanted the best so we weren't settling for anything we sat down with everybody all right you know i heard i heard songs from everybody i know i sent you at least 50 myself so yeah correct so i listened for for this album me myself i listened to over 350 songs that got sent to us wow so it was a lot so we called bob shum up we asked him to come down to the studio and show us some stuff and he was playing trying to compose stuff whatever back and forth and then all of a sudden at the end of the day you know after about two hours you know we love we liked some stuff they showed us but at the end of the day he showed us a song called canada and right when he started playing it we're like wow this is this is amazing um funny enough that mendy actually composed the intro to the song on the spot over there he's like i feel like this this fits the song and done mandy like the intro that's on the album is the actual intro that mandy composed at the session with baal shawn wow how did that show him deal with it well some loved it you know he loved it and and we had to say sometimes composers are very particular about their songs you know especially uh how they come out in the end oh yeah i know i i from what i heard from him i spoke to him he loves the arrangement loves how everything came out on the song yeah you know it's hard with baroque showm's song sometimes because sometimes his songs can be sung only by him you know he has that certain draw that certain stick with it it's about the stick of the performance but this one i you know i believe uh suited you very well and i think people are really going to enjoy this because it's not your typical it's not a song that i would listen to and say oh yeah you know it's not correct another utz walnut track on your album is aniva at which i guess we'd call your your wedding song technically right correct yeah now was there any sad to put english in the song or or was the idea from the beginning just to make hebrew lyrics so with this song first of all how he got it is also another story okay i was singing i was singing at a wedding and i found out the night before that the client also hired yf walnut to sing the couple with me which is very random because yes he doesn't really do live yeah no he doesn't like to do them at all right so at the wedding you know we're schmoozing and he told me he says listen i composed you know two songs for a singer and the singer only was only able to buy one of them you know he wants to buy this this other song just he can't buy it right now he says i want to sell it because i know it's an it's an awesome song so he showed it to me and literally at the wedding i sent it to mendy right and then he's like mandy's like okay let's take it it's the song we just had uh you know a melody to it um no actual lyrics needs these demos just he was just humming and starting the song correct okay um and after what you know then the next day whatever we went back and forth different ideas of what to do and we came with a concept that's different i guess you know not the classic copper song that everyone's saying that's you know the hustle and this broke and that we did it from the huston standpoint the cousin is standing underneath talking as she's walking down the aisle and he's saying that we should have bracha together hashem should bench us hashem shall help us to be happy and all these stuff and he's talking to the kaaba so it's a very cool concept yeah it is i mean most nozzles songs especially the ones released recently is is uh is a kalost filat hashem or khasn's field hashem but never one to another about their life they're about to begin hindi i made by mazam standing here on this day but possibly here's our beginning uh very very unique song uh maisha tisha with us by telephone uh delving deep into the release of his debut album mode ani got a few minutes left so we're gonna finish going through the songs and then talk about what else is new with my tischler maish for a new singer to do an english song is a little bit of a kiddish to do two english songs is definitely uh a bigger kirish so what was shot behind that you know english songs and jewish music they're either really good or really cheesy what makes you think you had grabbed two good english songs on your first album so the first english song that we got was called my story that was i believe the second song that we bought for the album so i bought an english second the english song as my second song on album um we got this song sent to us by um shia mandolin i was wondering like it says compose the lyrics by shiffy hawks i never heard of shiffy hawks so let me do you know who the axe is i do not shaki asks okay first of all who does this song sound like who who composes song i would probably say uh abey's daughter probably it isn't it it is baby's daughter is this the one that lives in muncie um i'm not sure if she lives i'll tell you the truth i never met her never spoke to her interesting okay fine so continue so we got the song sent to us by srimad-lewis and mendy was very very into it me personally i was very nervous about it just because i i don't know how i sing english music i never i've never done it before right um so mehndi was very you know very strong about it because i really think we should take it really think and we took it and sam it was uh performed it for the first time last pesa uh not this past year the year before by kmr i performed it i went with menzie mindy and uh you know he each banned there and we performed it and you know went over really well so i was very excited about it and then the next zone your greatest win um so first of all thanks to you for introducing me to khaila new house who you know i believe you're the shopkin on uh kilo alum that's right that song yeah we we were involved with that yeah so i see you went and you opened up the doors and you're like okay i need a new i need a song about my greatest win you know so i'll say the truth that that song was um she sent us the song and i was like okay this is a it's a cool pop song this is cool you know i feel like people will like the song and um i jumped on it i showed it to mindy and mindy's like i like it i like the groove i like the you know how the style of the song how everything's laid out and from there we just we bought it and she wrote amazing lyrics for it no i think you have a very well-run album like i said album is in stores distributed by the music it's available with digital download everywhere jewish music has sold the sonic duo production presented by mandy hirschquitz maisha i hear you having a big event tomorrow night why don't you tell us about it yeah tomorrow night at 6 00 pm i'll be doing a live stream concert you know for a debut album release um doing it it will be available on youtube and via instagram live six o'clock tomorrow night now for people who don't understand what does that mean album release does that mean you'll be you'll be playing tracks from the album you'll be singing the album uh will there be a band are you playing it off of the soundtrack you know give us a little bit of what's gonna be happening so i'm doing it in um eagle production warehouse he set up a huge corner from me here in lakewood yep he set up a huge gorgeous stage lighting screen um i'll be doing most of the stuff will be off of backing tracks which is basically the music with the backing vocals just not the lead vocal i'll be seeing in that part and then um america you know some songs i'll do if i'm not going to do some stuff i might not do off the album i'll do maybe some other random stuff um and i have the solid brief playing keyboard there on the side all right i'm you're probably going to have like eagles standard big video wall with lighting and all that stuff so that's on youtube and on instagram now let's talk music videos um before corona hits before the album was officially released was micey tichler working on any more videos for the new album so well i put out one already i put out mostly right that in itself was uh you know a fun that was a really fun one we uh i sat down with a guy named jay kaminsky who's a you know videographer right um and he came up with a great idea i mean we came with it together with this whole glasses idea if you saw it you see this whole glass like what's the glasses about we thought about it and we're saying there's so many things in life which is basically the song modernity is about gratitude about thanking hashem we know so many people in life just take certain things for granted they have a house or they have a cup of water they you know whatever it is they're not realizing that everything's a gift from hashem so we were our message that we tried sending out to everybody was if you put on the glasses and you'll see that it you should you should think of shampoo put on the glasses then wow you got a new vision like you know what actually hashem gave this to me i should i should be thankful for that i have a cup of water right well no um and regarding regarding new stuff of course there's going to be things in the works due to corona we couldn't work on anything yet but i'm going to assume there will be some more music videos i'm looking forward maishi to with us via telephone we're discussing the debut of his debut album entitled moda ani maisha we're going to close you out with track 8 because i'm going to play that for you because not only did i get the bra broker this song but slimy solves me got to arrange it so i get the best of both worlds um i had the pleasure of sending moishi a bunch of tracks uh he was interested in a few but this sale was the only one that went through barak hashem song was entitled kilo alum composed by khal new house anything any story anything that happened while producing the song that was arranged by shlamy saltzman any stories i had with this song oh um nothing we loved it he made it it's perfect just play it yeah literally that's like you know as i said before you know i'm very involved in everything so just let me clear the track and i'm i'm there always you know listening to different stuff giving my own opinion different ideas and soybean created something very different a very cool dance track so kudos to him and i can say this sounds very different than the demo we first got oh yeah for more moishi to book him to ask him about uh zoom shows what they have them sing at your digital bar mitzvah until the wedding's back open uh mushy tischler.com the album is available for physical purchase on his website as well right maish physical and digital yeah that's thanks for joining us ladies and gentlemen world broadcast premiere thank you very much thank you very much my pleasure