Soul Messages From Dimona Unleash The Promininent Dominant Islamic Asiatic Black Hebrew In the Year 2008
At any given time, there are approximately seven tapes in my father’s car. They are as follows: Billy Joel’s, Stormfront, Bob Marley’s Legend, and greatest hits collections from Inner Circle, The Pointer Sisters, Taylor Dayne and ZZ Top. The final tape is a compilation of Israeli gypsy pop that he brought home from Israel when I was about 17. It is quite possibly the worst album ever made. It kind of sounds like a recording of the lead singer of Gogol Gordello yelling epithets at a group of feral cats, while trying to attack them with a guitar and a sack of hearty Ukrainian potatoes. On several different occasions, my dad tried to force my sister and I to listen to the Israeli music. That was the closest either of us ever came to requesting legal emancipation.
Thanks to Passion of the Weiss funk consigliere, The Aquarium Drunkard, I’ve spent a significant portion of my week listening to Soul Messages From Dimona, a collection of gospel/funk/soul songs that have managed to erase all negative connotations that I may have had of Israeli music. Granted, the musicians who made it were Black Hebrew musicians from Detroit who moved to Dimona, Israel from 1975-1981, but hey, you’ve got to start somewhere. Besides, this is great stuff, therein confirming my long-time suspicions that if black people and Jews came together like the shaolin and the Wu-Tang, we’d be dangerous. Or at least as good as Jordan Farmar.
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MP3: Soul Messengers-”Savior in the East”
MP3: Soul Messengers-”Go to Proclaim”
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April 10th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Been listening to this a lot this week. I wonder if we had the same torah portion.
April 10th, 2008 at 9:43 am
I gotta stick up for my hometown, if only’s cause it’s always getting overshadowed by Detroit when it comes to music - the Black Hebrews were founded in Chicago. some of them still run like a natural clothing store/small grocery/restaurant (Soul Vegetarian, their chain of amazing vegan soul food restaurants) complex on the South Side. actually, my dad (who’s lived in Israel since my folks got divorced like 15 years go) was stationed in Dimona during one of his IDF stints and he’s told me some stories about interacting w/the Black Hebrews - he’s a pretty square, Orthodox dude but he really respected their discipline. apparently for a variety of reasons they’ve had a lot of problems trying to get officially recognized as Jews/becoming Israeli citizens, so not quite a Farmaresque combining of powers just yet.
many thanks for posting this btw. I too have had some horrific encounters with Israeli pop but this more than makes up for them.
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:49 am
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