Doc Jazz’s new song is out! Right of Return, now on Youtube

Doc Jazz is back, with a brand-new song! As announced before, the name of the song is ‘Right of Return’, and it was released on Youtube on December 17, 2011. The new song features Susanne Alt on a soulful saxophone, and has additional vocals by Jawhara. Apart from this, it is a one-man-product as usual, featuring Doc Jazz on keyboards, bass, acoustic and electric guitar, vocals, and programming of drum and percussion sequencer. Although the song was recorded and mixed in Doc Jazz’s home studio, the mastering was done by Amsterdam Mastering this time.

 

As reported before, the song is a musical response to the words of Ben Gurion, the first Prime Minister of the Zionist state, that he spoke in 1948 about the expulsion of over 800,000 Palestinians from their homeland: “The old will die, and the young will forget”.

 

‘Right of Return’ shows the world that the young have not forgotten, and will not forget. They have kept their Palestinian identity alive, and their determination to never abandon their inalienable Right of Return.

 

 

At the beginning of the video you hear the voice of Yasser Arafat, in an excerpt from his famous speech to the United Nations in 1974. “They see in the Palestinian child, and in the Palestinian tree, an enemy they must get rid of.”

 

After that there is a voice clip from Mahmoud Darwish, from his poem ‘Aaberoon’. “In our land, we have what we do. And here, we have our history, and we have the first sound of life. Ours is the present … the present and the future.”

 

Here is the video; scroll down if you want to read the lyrics !

 

 

Here are a few song facts that make ‘Right of Return’ special:

• it’s the first new song released by Doc Jazz since more than a year; the longest break in songwriting since the beginning of the Musical Intifada project in 2001;
• it’s the first song since the album Front Door Key (2007) that involves other artists (Susanne Alt on saxophone and Jawhara on vocals);
• it’s the first time that a song recorded in Doc Jazz’s own studio gets mastered by a mastering professional (Amsterdam Mastering);
• the video material was recorded with the use of some new equipment;
• it’s the first Doc Jazz song that gets released on Youtube before it is released on mp3.

 

As for the mp3 – don’t worry it will be released soon, as usual, on the Soundclick site!

 

Right of Return – Doc Jazz

 

You are like the olive tree

Just like you were meant to be

Though your roots dig deep into the land

They were uprooted by a savage hand

 

But the ties were forged through centuries

A bond so strong and fixed in history

You are the land and the land is you

A solid unity they never can undo

 

Cherish your leaves, let your branches bear your fruits

All you need to do is protect and feed your roots

 

The old will die, but the young will learn

The road is long and it will twist and turn

But when you know your destiny

You know where you need to be

And we always will believe

It’s our Right to Return

 

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Black on white they wrote that vow

But to act on it was not allowed

Empty words like a carrot on a stick

Ink is fading as the clock goes on to tick

 

Dispossession and racial oppression

Every psycho form of Zionist aggression

Was condoned by that very same force

Though they say our rights are still endorsed

 

We don’t need your words, they’re just empty talk

Why don’t you just keep on talking while we walk the walk

 

The old have died, but the young are strong

We know who we are and where we belong

With the key in our hand

We’ll come home to our land

We know we will always stand

for our Right of Return

 

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Copyright © Doc Jazz 2011