Desert Wind

images-1I wrote this song about Israel and the Negev desert after my first visit there. It’s a nice song to play along with if you have such inclinations (I mean inclinations to play along, sing along, hum along, tap your feet along kinds of inclinations). I myself enjoy playing it (an unfortunate lilting, somewhat musical inclination, a weakness for rhyme inclination, a slippery slope of snappy tunes sort of inclination). In any case, Desert Wind is on my CD titled Up in the Bronx and Down in LA. My Up in the Bronx novel, written before I recorded the songs in 2011, is, despite all my brave efforts, quite autobiographical. So that’s why I recorded the song for the CD. Huh? See the Up in the Bronx page in the header for more info about the book and also about the soundtrack CD. I was playing the song again the other day, so for your listening pleasure (I hope), and also to perhaps interest you in taking a look at the book…

 And to give you someting a little snappier to listen to I’ve addd Lovesick Blues if you’re brave enough to click on it

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Hey! There's Up in the Bronx on the shelves at the Los Angeles Public library
Hey! There’s Up in the Bronx on the shelves at the Los Angeles Public library

Author: Bumba

Shown on a recent visit to the Big Apple, Bumba has written two literary novels and has recorded two CD soundtrack albums to accompany them. Check it out on Bumba Books.

10 thoughts on “Desert Wind”

    1. When I wrote it I didn’t know Hebrew. I did try later to write in Hebrew but never got very far. There was always a lot of excellent Israeli pop music, but I see now that it had little hold on me. Israeli pop and rock music became very stylized and now I’m out of that loop and somehow become tangled up in American folk music again. Out of the loop remains a constant, tho.

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