Guitarist needed to record THE CONVERT’S QUEST, a song challenging the rising anti-convert trend in the Jewish world. Click the video above, to hear the song. Lyrics below.
If you know someone who might be interested, please share. Doesn’t matter where the guitarist is located, but s/he/they need to be proficient in file sharing via .wav, to build a song together. Also doesn’t matter what religion, ethnicity, etc the guitarist is – just looking for a talented, skilled, and hard-working guitarist. Comment below if you’re interested in the gig. If we work well together on this project, I’d love to keep working with you on upcoming recordings for my band Iraqis in Pajamas.
I’m raising moneyto pay all the musicians and the mixing/mastering recording artist for this project, via The Convert’s Quest crowdfunding campaign, so if you might like to chip in to make this happen, please do; and if you know people who might like to chip in, please share. That will help me ensure I am able to pay my musicians fair wages.
If you’d like the full back story and podcast I devleoped on topic, check out my Kaffe Khazzoom episode on topic.
THE CONVERT’S QUEST
לך לך מארצך
וממולדתך
ומבית אביך
The convert’s quest
The most gut-wrenching
Act of faith
Sacrificing
All you know
All you love
All you are
To follow your soul
Your heart
No matter the cost
Leaving lands paradigms family community
To Become Who you are meant to Be
A Living quest of purity truth passion nobility
And vulnerable authenticity
Risking greatly
Amidst a world encouraging us to be
Numb
And play it safe
Go along with the crowd
But you have said NO
So that you can say yes
To the Gd of your understanding
Who shines brightly through
The Light of your Being
Serving
As a beacon for others
Staggering around in the darkness
Inspiring them
To follow their quest
Of their own souls
If they would just
Stop look and listen
To you
To Ruth
Mother of the משׁיח
Your Gd will be my Gd
Gd of the עברים
Those who cross over
Those on the convert’s quest
The Sarah and Abraham of our time
Stepping out on faith
Crossing the river Into uncertainty
Toward the Promised Land
נעשׂה ונשׁמע
The most Jewish Jews of all