Israel Portnoy – Kind Of Greenery (Official Music Video)

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Filmed by: Josh Fleischer
Edited by: Gil Yishai
Starring: Avi Friedman
Music Credits:
Written/Produced/Performed - Israel Portnoy
6 string Guitar/Organs - Benny Weill
Mandolin & Solo: Sruli Solomon
Bass: Yogev Glusman
Drums: Yoav Arbel
B.Vox: Malka Russel
B.Vox: Ari Wenig
Mix: Ben Wallick
Master: Conor Salmoral
This is a music video for Kind of Greenery, which appears on my debut solo album "Facing Flames Feat. Guilda".
Most of the album is admittedly quite intense, so I felt like putting a visual to something which is a little lighter. “Kind of Greenery” was born out of a realization that I needed to return to nature to heal (after going through the intense experience of losing everything that I owned in a wildfire that tore down our homes and the gorgeous surrounding forest of the village I was living in). I began to miss my daily trolls and writing sessions in the majestic nature with which I’d formed an emotional/spiritual bond. We had all been moved to temporary housing (whilst we figured out what the future held) and I was feeling a little stuck, as I was not getting out enough…. maybe even a little (subconsciously) done with nature for a little while (fire, after all, is nature too). There may have also been an element of me avoiding the things that I know heal me the most because healing isn’t an easy thing right?
 
Anyway, so there I was, sitting on the bed in this new strange place and I suddenly stumbled on this guitar riff from months earlier during a forest writing-session. At the time, I thought it sounded too much like something else so I didn’t take it seriously enough to think much of it but I did record a voice note of it (before forgetting about it entirely). Something about the playfulness of it was calling me back and I knew I had to take Guilda (my sole-surviving guitar) out to this new nature and see where this little riff would take us. Turns out it has been quite the bridge between my ‘pre-fire’ world and my “post-fire” one.
 
The week after we filmed this music video (which is shot in the Jerusalem hills, the backyard of my new home), a wildfire broke out here too! We were evacuated immediately and through miracles - after 3 raging days of wildfire, we were safe. The wind swept it out of our village and this time around, our homes were not destroyed. Unfortunately, so much nature (including much of the nature which we filmed I this video only a week earlier!) is now destroyed. As you can imagine, this song now has an even deeper meaning to me. The Nature has been slowly coming back, replenishing itself day by day and I try and get out to see it every day to be there for her healing process, just like nature was there for me and mine. If you have read this far, Thank you! X
 
Filmed by: Josh Fleischer
Edited by: Gil Yishai
Starring: Avi Friedman
Music Credits:
Written/Produced/Performed - Israel Portnoy
6-string Guitars/Organs - Benny Weill
Mandolin & Solo: Sruli Solomon
Bass: Yogev Glusman
Drums: Yoav Arbel
B.Vox: Malka Russel
B.Vox: Ari Wenig
Additional Engineering: Ohad Darshan
Mix: Ben Wallick
Master: Conor Salmoral