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HEADLESS ELVIS - a tribute to Charlie Megira - Music from the film Tomorrow's Gone By Boaz Goldberg

by ZICO (Boaz Goldberg)

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Gabi My Friend 02:24
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Pink World 02:49
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בואי נעוף רחוק אל עולם ורוד שמחכה לנו שם לבטח את תהיי אחות ואני לך אח ונחיה לנו שם לנצח ז'וז'ה סאראמאגו סאראמאגו ז'וז'ה סאראמאגו סאראמאגו ז'וז'ה סאראמאגו ז'וז'ה סאראמאגו סאראמאגו ז'וז'ה סאראמאגו דשא דק כחול והים סגול נרוץ לדוג לנו בו על מזח מכוסה בסדין יש מופע צללים והוא תלוי בחלל ז'וז'ה סאראמאגו ז'וז'ה סאראמאגו סאראמאגו _ _ _ let's fly far away to a pink world that waits for us there for sure you'll be a sister and I'm your brother and we will live there forever Jose` Saramago Saramago Jose` Saramago Saramago Jose` Saramago Jose` Saramago Saramago Jose` Saramago grass is thin and blue and purple is the sea we`ll hurry up fishing from the pier covered with a bedsheet there's a silhouette show and he`s hanged in space Jose` Saramago Jose` Saramago Saramago
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The Chopper 00:29
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Charlie's Leap (Zoozoo Otamootoo reimagined) 04:23
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Zico's Way 03:42
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Frankengolem 00:59
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Pink Punk 01:11
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Dear Narcoza 02:21
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Check Out The Tremolando 00:42
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End Of The Nineties 03:23
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Short Chase 00:49
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Dear Narcoza 2 01:34
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Charlie's Farewell 02:25
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This is the alternative soundtrack of the Rock-N-Roll film about Charlie Megira. This is ***ZICO - HEADLESS ELVIS - music from the film Tomorrow's Gone by Boaz Goldberg***


tomorrowsgonemovie.wixsite.com/tomorrowsgone/the-movie


Watch TOMORROW'S GONE - a film about CHARLIE MEGIRA - FULL MOVIE - english subtitles:
vimeo.com/ondemand/tomorrowsgone
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Love comes in a burst, it comes in a jet stream. This is what Richard Hell says in the song "Love Comes In Spurts". For me it's the same thing, only with music. About once every ten years it happens. A thing leads to another, and all of a sudden I go back to the instruments, to the recordings - I go back to making music.

David Lynch once said: “In making sound effects with the guitar, a deep thrill went into me, down into my soul. I loved working that thing, even though it’s not in the traditional way. And maybe it doesn’t go anywhere for awhile, but then something can happen - and WOW! A new thing is sort of found”.

My last outburst started in early 2017, shortly after I received the bitter news: Charlie Megira, aka Gabi Abudraham, was no longer walking among us. Deep in my heart, I knew it: that film that would tell his story, the one I started in the early 2000`s, will be fully formed. It was clear to me that this time nothing would stop me. First of all, even before I collected all the materials and converted, transcribed, wrote, filmed some more footage and started editing - I was busy imagining what my film would sound like. It was also my way of mourning.

This is where another musician friend, Sagi Barnes, walks in. Trying to fulfill a 30-year-old shared dream, I suggested I would bring ideas and all sorts of things I had written with different instruments, and Sagi would serve as a recording engineer and co-producer. I brought guitars - electric, bass and classical. I brought a Korg synthesizer. I brought wind chimes. I played drums. I brought African percussion. I brought to the death scene at the end a singer with a big voice, carrying a lament. Each segment was born with its own concept, with a specific concentration.

And yes, I even brought my voice to sing one song, which is the first song that Gabi Abudraham recorded on his 4-channel tape - I think it was recorded in 1999 - "Pink World". The recording itself was lost, but what was not lost is the whole movement of the song inside my head. It was supposed to be a song by Les` Lost Boys (Naarey Ha-Hefker) - the short-lived duo of Gabi and mine. We worked on it a lot and then we stopped, but I - even in periods where I had not played for many years - saved it. And saved. And saved. On track number 2, the song "Pink World" is reborn, and this time I do the guitars and vocals. Charlie would call such an act: “the other possibility”. A bit like you see in one of his favorite films, “Mulholland Drive”, with all the parallel realities happening there.

Here is another great quote from Lynch: “I always say it’s a flow of ideas, and in painting and in music you get this thing which I call ‘action and reaction’. And sometimes it can go very fast: you see something, you react to it and then you know what to do next”.

This album is the alternative soundtrack of the film "Tomorrow's Gone”. I would say it is most similar to the soundtrack of a horror movie. After all, my initial experience from Gabi's death was a horror movie experience. That was also the initial direction of the film, before it became entirely documentary. “Headless Elvis” contains all the tracks recorded for the film, those that I put in and those that I didn`t - all in full versions. This is where I have deleted from this text a list of exotic genres and names that pop into consciousness when listening to this album. I preferred to leave it for you to find out.

I'll just conclude that really, as Richard Hell says, love comes in spurts, it comes in a jet stream. The outburst of "Headless Elvis" took place following that very sad death event, and the after-death of Charlie reminded me very vividly what a musical hero he was. There has not been and will never be anyone who plays, writes and sings like Charlie Megira. "Headless Elvis" salutes Charlie in other things - in terms of abstraction, of going beyond boundaries, of daring to go for a walk. This album, my debut album, would never come out without Charlie, and it is devoted with intense love to Charlie Megira, Gabi Abudraham R.I.P.

Boaz Goldberg
Tel Aviv, 2020

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released November 12, 2020

All tracks composed and performed by ZICO: guitars, bass guitar, korg synthesizer, vocals, drums, wind chimes, claps, Sansula, voices, percussion & african iron snake drone-maker

^Written by Goldberg-Abudraham (Les` Lost Boys/ Naarey Ha-Hefker, 2000).

^^Words by Dennis Linde

Produced by Boaz Goldberg & Sagi Barnes
Recording Engineer, Mix & Mastering: Sagi Barnes
Additional Mix: Boaz Goldberg

Tracks recorded and mixed between 2017 to 2020

Sleeve photo: Sivan (Petite) Meller
Sleeve Design: Valentin P. Monnereau

Running time: 00:26:53`

Special thanks:
◇ Dorin Shauly - Heavenly vocals on Charlie’s Farewell
◇ Sagi Barnes - Synth Bass on Charlie's Farewell

Radio Fragments:
◇ Thank you Joe Belock & Mario Santana (WFMU’s Three Chord Monte)
◇ Thank You Johnny Pemberton (Twisting The Wind podcast)
◇ Thank You Eran Yarkon

Tracks 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 are outtakes from Tomorrow's Gone soundtrack sessions

Tracks 1, 4, 5, 10 & 13 are the full versions of various tracks from Tomorrow's Gone soundtrack

Frankengolem track: Thank you Kobi Or & Leon Feldman

A very special thanks goes to Sagi Barnes, the legendary Sag De Dag

This album is dedicated to the one and only, Gabi Abudraham - 1972-2016

Long live Charlie Megira

Label: ZICO Records

Tomorrow's Gone (2019) - a musical feature-documentary about Charlie Megira by Boaz Goldberg; Produced by Eyal Datz.

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ZICO (Boaz Goldberg) Tel Aviv Yafo, Israel

Boaz Goldberg aka ZICO is a documentary filmmaker and a musician. He worked as a music journalist for more than a decade and meticulously covered the alternative scene in Israel.

In 2000, he had a brief collaboration with the now legendary Charlie Megira. The two recorded “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, and worked on the song “Pink World”, which ZICO is now re-visioning in his debut album. ... more

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