Deedee

Hi everyone!
I'm coming out of a long hibernation period...
Guess there's nothing special about it, with COVID rampaging about the globe and making people look inwards and backwards.
For me this period has meant being a lot of time in front of the piano and realizing I can actually play and enjoy it. All my songs here are sung by me but played by talented musicians, and it's a new venture for me to think of recording some of my melodies solo... Stay tuned for uploads in the following months.
Coming out of this and looking forward, I have revisited my work and posted two songs today - one a better version of Back Inside My Skin, from my last show over two years ago. And the other a new upload - My Knight, one of the last recordings with my previous talented partner - Gil Bar Hadas.
I am now looking for a new music partner and also re-looking for a brilliant producer to flesh out some of the songs and bring them into the light.
I wish everyone a magical holiday period, love, joy and health.
All my love,
Deedee

Hi everyone,

Firstly a big thanks to all my subscribers! Hope you are all safe and well wherever you are in the world.

I'm so grateful to be able to share my vision of life with all of you.
Each song that comes to me is a sliver of my soul shining through me and out of me, and when others accept it into their hearts, it is intensified and shines brighter, remains alive and vibrant.

Sunday comes in two days, and I wonder whether I wrote this song about someone absent or present, about someone outside or inside of me. Sometimes I get the feeling that my songs are calling out (in)to my own self - serenading that pure, loving, compassionate part inside of me. To come out and be my true knight in shining armour. To slay the dragons clamouring at the moat, looking for a breach to enter through and cause havoc.

This journey inwards is exhilarating at times, terrifying at others, a never boring, always scintillating, never-ending story of discovery, pain, love, growth and rest.

May we all never give up on ourselves.

All my love,
ATZ

Well there, it's past time to give light to this particular song sketch.

In sewing, a seam is the join where two or more layers of fabric, leather, or other materials are held together with stitches.

I was at a cinema place, way before the pandemic broke. I used to go A LOT to the movies, some of my best loved songs come to me after immersing myself in a fictional world. Experiencing other creators, other feelings, other words. Other layers of perceived reality.

And this snippet came to me going down the stairs... Bursting at the seams.
A feeling of overwhelming happiness and completeness. Expansion.

This song is still a baby, but it will expand and grow when the time comes.
And in the meantime, I invite you to cherish its babyhood, as I have.

All the love in the world to you, my sweet souls.

ATZ

Hello and welcome to all my new subscribers!

Our list has grown robust and we are 655 strong!
I appreciate each and every one of you, and send you my heartfelt thanks for all the support and kind comments I receive from you on an almost daily basis.

I am also very happy to say that the number of song plays has passed the 100,000 mark, and that has been making me smile ear-to-ear for the past week or so :)

I am in a retrospective-looking-forward sort of state, so I dug up this song - On The Brink - from early on, back in 2008, when I had about half the number of songs that I have now.

Back then I used to play more with intellect than with feelings, both in life and in creation, and oh, was I a worrier still....
No doubt a result of living primarily up in my head!

I wish you all a swift return to a (new) state of normal, wherever in the world you are.

All my love,
Adi

Hi everyone!

First of all I wish everyone a wonderful 2021, coming out of the covid and into a new normality.

I've been getting a lot of requests to post new songs here.

Since covid hit, I haven't been working on new recordings.
Mostly I've been reassessing my path, sitting by the piano and immersing myself in creating new music, which I haven't done before. Up till now, I've been writing songs in my head and working with talented musicians to bring the song out into the world. Now there's a new avenue that I want to explore.

There's new hope now for a return to an altered (improved?) state of normality, what with vaccines and being able to be in proximity to people again. Which is essential both to my creative process and to creating actual songs from all the voices in my head :)

But until I do that, I sat down to listen to recordings and found some songs that I think you might like. Most are sketches, so be gentle with me.
I'll be releasing them here in the coming days and weeks.

First new release is actually the first song I remember writing, many many years ago while I was still studying philosophy in university. It's beautifully produced and somewhat transformed from the original text, which I want to share with you because it holds special meaning to me:

The sky of tonight
Is the sky of tomorrow
We have no other sky
I want to see another sky
To feel another sun

Yesterday I saw my love
Under this blue sky
I looked at you
And saw just what I liked

I want to be alone with you
Under another sky
To feel another sun
Another time

How would it feel
To see another sky
To kill a lot of time
Under another sun?

I want to be alone with you
Under another sky
Under another sun
Under our love

This is an impassioned plea, a forlon hope, an impossible challenge...
I need your help!

As I told you in a previous newsletter, I have written a song inspired by Sarah J. Maas "Court Of Thorns and Roses" mesmerizing fantasy book series.
It's one of my own personal favorites, and I think it captures the spirit of the books beautifully.
You can hear it here, a recording from my last show which came out really nice.

A movie is being produced as I write this, and I imagine there's already a theme song for it (?!?).
I have tried all I could to get the song to the author / to the producers, to no avail.
I even posted it on YouTube with the hope that someone stumbles on to it.

In short, if any of you know of a possible way to help me get this song heard by someone who could do something with it - I implore you to do so.

I feel it in my bones...
This song should be heard.
And it should be heard by people who know the books or see the movie.

This is it. It's out there. May the universe be with me on this :)

Thank you and all my love
Adi

Well, it's been ages since I've written here.
I've had two very successful shows, they went beautifully.
And I'm getting ready for another.
And working on new songs.
Uploaded one for you now so you get a feel.
For me all my recent songs revolve around the same issues.
Love and destiny and eternity.

Will post more new ones as they coalesce. And some good recording from the shows.
Stay tuned.

Hope you enjoy it!
All my love,
Adi

Hi everyone,

I said I would be making this list into a sort of lab for my songs. And so it is.
So today I uploaded a short section of a song that is not complete yet. Maybe it won't ever be complete.

Forgetting to suffer - going inside to bask in the light.
Sometimes we need that reminder that everything is fine when we stop thinking about problems and focus on the light and love that are just waiting for us within.

But just so you don't feel cheated out of a song, I also uploaded a very sweet song of mine - To The Ocean - give it a listen, I really like it but it's mine so I'd better :)))

And a final word - I've begun work on an album last week.
Almost decided on a music producer, almost decided on which songs to records.

This is a very exciting time for me and I'm happy to be able to share it with you here.

All my love
Adi

So....
My show is coming up in a week and a half.
Am I terrified? Am I elated? A bit of both I guess.

It's been two and half years since I last performed.
In that time I moved to a new apartment, joined a classic choir (soprano, if you can believe it); went through several intense soul-searching sessions...
And all of it part of my way of getting closer and closer to my own 4-year-old self, who sat at a piano and played, and thought it was the most amazing sound in the world, until her mother yelled at her from the other room, "stop making that noise!". And she stopped. I stopped making that noise. And have been trying to begin again for the past 4 decades.

I went through so many phases and feelings, peeled away so many walls and boundaries and defenses.
And I feel that this, my new show, combining songs from the very beginning 12 years ago, and through to very new songs from the last months, is the first show that actually shows me as I am.

An artist, a mother, a creator of reality. A dreamer. And above all a hopeless romantic.

A scarce commodity indeed...
Which is also the title of the song I posted today.
Scarce can mean not-there. It can also mean rare - and in high-demand.
Choose whichever suits you :)

I think my choice was made for me all this time ago on that black piano in that dark room...

All my love,
ATZ

Hey everyone,

I'm very happy to announce a show in Tel Aviv on June 25th, featuring many new songs.

For most of you who are far away from me geographically (but close to my heart!), - I posted today two very loved and very sketchy new songs.

I've been writing more than ever and will continue to post as I go :)

All my love and enjoy the songs,

Lizzie
(formerly ATZ)

I recently read the Court of Thorns and Roses fantasy series by Sarah J. Maas.
I was captivated, and out of that came "Faerie Borne On Wings" - the song I posted here today.
I had it in mind to send the song to the writer, but since I couldn't find an e-mail address....
I just had to get it out of my system and posted it here and on YouTube instead.
I understand that there's a movie coming out soon, I imagine it will be as breath-taking as the books were.

Hope you like it!
Waiting to hear your comments :)

All my love
ATZ

Hey everyone,

As promised, I'm beginning to post new songs as they come out of my living room.
All of them towards a new show I'm working on.

Bear in mind that I'm recording on my phone... Not the best of quality!

I said I would use you as my lab rats :)

Would love to hear your thoughts.

All my love,
ATZ