Abidan
Book One #90
Masada World page
Official Releases[edit]
Gimel
Bar Kokhba - Speed & Medeski (disc one)
Bar Kokhba - Masada String Trio (disc two)
Live in Jerusalem 1994
Masada Guitars - Bill Frisell
Voices in the Wilderness - Jewlia Eisenberg
50th Birthday Celebration Vol 1: Masada String Trio
Masada Recital
At the Mountains of Madness (disc one)
At the Mountains of Madness (disc two)
Sanhedrin
New Masada Quartet, Volume 2
Performances[edit]
- Masada, Warsaw Summer Jazz Days, 26 Jun 1994
- Electric Masada, CBGB, New York, 11 Sept 1994
- Masada, Kito, Bremen, Germany, 7 Nov 1994
- Masada, Sala Estándar, Barcelona, Spain, 20 Oct 1995
- Masada Sextet, Jazz at Maciac, France, 8 May 2008
- Sagit Zilberman, ~May 2010
- Grzegirz Rogala, Emerson College, Sept 2010
- Alef Band, 2013
- Gabriele Coen Quintet, Roma, 08 Dec 2013
- Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier, Angels at the Vanguard, Village Vanguard, New York, 2 Sept 2014
- FuzzyJammer, Chapman Stick, 2015
- Astronotas Experience, 2017
- Rogala & Parker, 2016
- Bellingham Chamber Music Society, Bellingham, Washington, 29 April, 2018
- Gennaro Balzano, 12 Jan 2019
- Gino De Vita 5 Oct 2020
- Loris Tagliapietra, 21 Nov 2020
- Jon Madof, 17 May 2022
Covers[edit]
- Masada, Zattere Alla Deriva, Møre Müsic, 1996 (Italy) (this version not available on canonical Masada releases)
- Electric Geisha, Sushi Bondage, Euclidia SARL, 2010
- Grzegorz Rogala and Projekt Grzegorza Rogali, Enthuzjazzm, Solitom, 2011
Notes[edit]
- Hebrew: אבידן - "judgements of the father"
- Two versions of this tune (including the Masada String Trio version from Bar Kokhba) are featured in The Art of Remembrance: Simon Wiesenthal, a feature documentary film by Johanna Heer and Werner Schmiedel (1995, Riverlights Pictures)
Lyrics[edit]
from the recording on Voices in the Wilderness
"What I Have to Tell You, Until Next Time" by David Avidan
I love the stillness you leave behind you.
I love the death that flows from your poems.
I love the fast pace of your movies.
I love the noise that goes before you.
I love the stillness you leave behind you.
I love the grass you trample with your feet.
I love death and your life insurance,
And I love your name and all you own.
I love the stillness you leave behind you.
I love the room when it's empty without you.
I love the water that flows over your body.
I love the darkness that does you in.
I love the stillness you leave behind you.
I love the rustle that trails at your feet.
I love the moment I was left without you.
I love the distant color of your eyes.
I love the stillness you leave behind you,
And I sit here thinking about you—
How big you were and frightening in your lifetime
And how I'll get along here now without you.
I'm afraid of the stillness you leave behind you,
And I sit here thinking how it will be without you,
And I remember all these things that were before you,
And I sit here in the stillness and think about you.
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