Interview with Orphaned Land

Orphaned Land uses their music to bridge the gap between cultures, religions and viewpoints.

Interview with Orphaned Land Ricci: They’re a mix of death metal in Eastern Folk influences originating from Israel. Hi I’m Ricci Tucci with WatchMojo.com and today we’re going to be chatting with the band Orphaned Land. How did you guys get together to form Orphaned Land/ Yossi: Well basically started out in the early 90’s where kids in high school and we’ve been together for 19 years now. I stared up playing the Death Metal with various influences and various metals styles and very early one we realized that we want to express the region we come from with the middles issues and oriental melodies that you bring from our homes and that’s what we do best. Ricci: What made you guys decide to mix death metal with Eastern Folk Music? Yossi: We come each from different cities but the background is similar we come from coexistence. Israel is a country that melts different opinions and beliefs and religions in one place and the last you get a mixture of many mixture of many cultures and colors in one place so the same we bring into a music. Ricci: As a band you see yourselves as you’re bagging cultures through your music? Yossi: We see and believe that music is universal language and it is a unified power. Through the vessel of music whom we can reach between different people and different opinions. Ricci: We knew music videos Safari and little is to translate to tell me in Hebrew what message are you trying to convey through that? Yossi: The entire song itself is really the modern arrangement to traditional Yemenites poem from 400 years back. We just layered it with the different instruments and progressive, modern arrangements of our own and that’s basically Orphaned Land. We mix the past with the present and future. Ricci: Through this entire experience what can you give to people and what have you learned through it. Yossi: Everyday I learned a lot of things from many people that I see on my way deliberately and undeliberately so just stay open and stay alert and a tendency if two ideas and other peoples beliefs and common tips come everyday on your way you just have to be attentive to them. At the end of the day I guess you really want to sound unique and try to find what makes you sound like nothing else. Ricci: And so thank you very much for the interview.