Photo Friday (Vol. LIII) ['I got nothin' edition]

Well, not exactly nothin'... just nothin' of my own.

Oh, and what I do have isn't really photographs but rather a video... a music video to be exact.

Other than that it's another typical Photo Friday here at treppenwitz!  :-)

Alright, the truth of the matter is that it was crazy week and I didn't take the camera out once.  In fact I even published one post (Wednesday's) that I absolutely hated but decided to drag it out of my computer's recycling bin when I realized that I had nothing else of any value to say.

I actually have a huge hoard of uncatalogued photos on my computer that I've been wanting to organize for future Photo Fridays, but last night when I would have been mining that stash for photographic gold Zahava and I were out at a fancy shmancy dinner at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem (it was an alumni thing from her Alma Mater, Washington University in St. Louis).

Sooooo... I think I've now used up every excuse other than 'my dog ate Photo Friday'.  This is what I meant by 'I got nothin'. 

But I do have something.

Almost every day I get neat cartoons, pictures, news images and all sorts of interesting videos from friends around the world.  I almost never pass them along because of copyright issues (meaning I don't have a clue whom I should contact for permission to publish them).

This week I received a link to a fantastic music video that I just keep going back to.  It features a rock band called Cheah which is fronted by a brother and sister (she plays cello and he plays violin) performing an unbelievably complexly-textured tune call 'Muezzin'. 

The song itself borrows a lot of motifs and harmonies from middle-eastern music which makes for an interesting result when combined with classical instruments in a rock format.

Go to the site and download the video.  You have the option of downloading it at 26MB or 9MB depending on your connection speed... the only difference being that the 9MB version is played in a much smaller window.   If you have a couple extra seconds be a sport and go for the larger format.

Watch 'til the very end because it just gets more and more intense until the mind-blowing finale.

If you'd like more information about the backgrounds/biographies of the performers you can go here.

[By the way, to give credit where credit is due... I got the idea of sharing a music video from Jack who shared this addictive video last year.  If you have RealPlayer you can watch a better quality version here].

Shabbat Shalom.