Mira Awad - Asfura Ustura (Phoenix) ميرا عوض - عصفوره اسطوره
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Asfura Ustura (Phoenix)
(From upcoming double album HuMAN/WoMAN)
Music: Dudu Tassa
Lyrics: Mira Awad
Produced & Arranged by Dudu Tassa And Nir Maimon
Mira Awad | Vocal
Dudu Tassa | Acoustic guitar
Nitzan Canetty | Violin and Cello
Recorded At 'Bandi's Territory' by: Nir Maimon and Yoav Osterreicher
Mixed and Mastered by: Shai C. Sivan
All the rights reserved to Bandi Katom
Video conceived, scripted & produced by Mira Awad
Director: Laliv Sivan
Cinematographer: Mathias Zagoni
Camera assistant & Focus puller: Naama Bernstein
2nd Camera assistant: Ayal Yishay
Make up: Shay Bashari
Online: Yoni Passy
Location scout: Yahli Kella
Actors: Mira Awad, Giora Orman, Marie Peter
My gratitude goes to:
Yahli Kella for finding the perfect location for us to film at.
The Port of Haifa, for welcoming us into the space with open arms.
Zohar, Sa'ar and Benny from the Port of Haifa for all your help.
Photographer Ella Barak for behind-the-scenes documentation.
My dear friend Marie for being my double on the video.
My self-defence coach Giora, for agreeing to join me on an adventure.
Thank you Mathias Zagoni for your faith in me and your encouragement.
Special thanks go to director Laliv Sivan, it was a pleasure being directed by you.
Mira
On a personal note:
Asfura Ustura (Phoenix) is a song about junctions, inner battles, re-birth and renewal.
I took many hits in my life and in my career, and fell down. Luckily, something inside me always knew how to quickly rise again, how to tend to the wounds and keep going. This is to the extent that I have actually perfected falling.
Sounds funny right? But it makes sense.
When you are out there, taking risks, treading where no wo/man has gone before, you are bound to get knocked down sometimes, falling is inevitable, it is part of the journey. Therefore, it is essential to learn the technique for falling, like a professional stunt person would. So that you don't break your bones every time. Moreover, you develop a method to fall forward. So that even if you're down, you are still a step forward from where you were standing before. This always reminded me of the Phoenix legend, the bird that burns to ashes and then gets reborn. That's why I have a tattoo of a Phoenix on my back, a reminder that I am an experienced faller, a legend-bird that will always find the way to spread her wings and fly again.
Lyrics:
عصفوره اسطوره
من على بساط الغمام
من ورا غبار الركام
لا، ما ظل
الي محل
انزل وارتاح
اركي هالجناح
عصفوره مكسوره
من اواخر الابعاد
ما بقي الا رماد
ما في بدايه بدون نهايه
من فوهة البركان
برجع افرد جنحان
عصفوره اسطوره
Translation:
From above the clouds
From behind the dust of wreckage
No, there is not
A place for me
To land, and rest
No place to lean my wing
A broken bird.
To the farthest distance
Nothing left but ashes
There is no beginning
Without an end.
From the mouth of the volcano
I spread my wings again
A legend bird (Phoenix)
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