Album 2018-05-21T14:04:45+00:00

Rafi Salutes Leonard

A music album, sang by Rafi Ginat, dedicated to the memory of Leonard Cohen

Check out all the songs from the album

Rafi Ginat about working on his new album

I love many kinds of music. I love soul, gospel, western, I love any song where you feel that all the artists involved worked very hard to give you the best they can. I hate computer music: fake drums, fake horns, fake sound. Only live music with live musicians that put all their talent and heart into the song creat the real thing. The best computer can’t commpite with the soul and talent of a human being holding a trumpet or guitar.  Computers are doing great things for us. Music is not one of them.

For me live people play live music is the name of the game, the only game.

During all my life I deal with words. As a journalist, a chief editor of newspapers, an editor & presenter of tv shows, I did a lot of writing during the last 40 years. I know the power of words, I admire good story.

I hate empty words even if they are covered by a devine music.
To my opinion, each song should try to be a COMPLETE  work of art: great lyrics, great music, great production.
If the song writer is a gifted poet and also a great composer, you can’t ask for more, you can’t ask for more if his name is Leonard Cohen.
Leonard started as a poet who wrote books. Than he moved  to songs: lyrics and music and singing.
He wrote and sung hundreds of songs, many of them became hits all over the world.
His secret was simple: let the music serve the lyrics. Let the story get more power by the notes.
Leonard Cohen died in his sleep on 7.11.2016 in age of  82. He left us so many fantastic songs. I know most of them, love so many of them.
A fantastic example of Leonard Cohen’s greatness is “Dance Me To The End Of Love”, one of his most famous songs. Almost everybody thinks that it is a wonderful love song between a man and his woman.
It is not!
 It is a tragic song inspired by the holocaust, talking about the Jewish musicians, violinists, in the Nazis concentration  camps, who were forced to play classic music for their brother jews in their march to the gaz chambers. When you know what inspired Leonard to write this song, you can understand the real meaning of  lyrics like “Dance me to the END of love”, “Dance me to your beauty with a BURNING violin”, “Dance me through the PANIC”, horrible words that only a man who knows that he is marching to his death can say to the woman he loves.
-Rafi Ginat-

Rafi Salutes Leonard

A music album, sang by Rafi Ginat, dedicated to the memory of Leonard Cohen

Check out all the songs from the album

I love many kinds of music. I love soul, gospel, western, I love any song where you feel that all the artists involved worked very hard to give you the best they can. I hate computer music: fake drums, fake horns, fake sound. Only live music with live musicians that put all their talent and heart into the song creat the real thing. The best computer can’t commpite with the soul and talent of a human being holding a trumpet or guitar.  Computers are doing great things for us. Music is not one of them.

For me live people play live music is the name of the game, the only game.

During all my life I deal with words. As a journalist, a chief editor of newspapers, an editor & presenter of tv shows, I did a lot of writing during the last 40 years. I know the power of words, I admire good story.

I hate empty words even if they are covered by a devine music.
To my opinion, each song should try to be a COMPLETE  work of art: great lyrics, great music, great production.
If the song writer is a gifted poet and also a great composer, you can’t ask for more, you can’t ask for more if his name is Leonard Cohen.
Leonard started as a poet who wrote books. Than he moved  to songs: lyrics and music and singing.
He wrote and sung hundreds of songs, many of them became hits all over the world.
His secret was simple: let the music serve the lyrics. Let the story get more power by the notes.
Leonard Cohen died in his sleep on 7.11.2016 in age of  82. He left us so many fantastic songs. I know most of them, love so many of them.
A fantastic example of Leonard Cohen’s greatness is “Dance Me To The End Of Love”, one of his most famous songs. Almost everybody thinks that it is a wonderful love song between a man and his woman.
It is not!
 It is a tragic song inspired by the holocaust, talking about the Jewish musicians, violinists, in the Nazis concentration  camps, who were forced to play classic music for their brother jews in their march to the gaz chambers. When you know what inspired Leonard to write this song, you can understand the real meaning of  lyrics like “Dance me to the END of love”, “Dance me to your beauty with a BURNING violin”, “Dance me through the PANIC”, horrible words that only a man who knows that he is marching to his death can say to the woman he loves.
-Rafi Ginat-

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