Cooshi by Vincent van Hessen
Vincent van Hessen debut album.
Recorded in the first half of the 00's and released on CD drive in 2004.
Features various songs and various influences and musical styles all merged into one entity, with a great international group of musicians.
The songs were recorded in 3 different recording studios: in Tel Aviv Israel,
The Hague Netherlands and Heeze in Southern Netherlands.
All 3 studios of which 2 of them incidentally had the name 'Submarine',
as they were both built underground..
All 3 studios were these old fashioned semi analog semi digital studios with very spacious control rooms with huge control desks, and recording booths that were more recording halls.
Sadly most of these studios are non existing nowadays, so the experience is very cherished.
All songs were composed by Vincent van Hessen except for 'Yaponsa' which is Ghanaian traditional sung in Akan (Twi) language.
The musical piece 'Air' by JS Bach has been added as bonus track to this part of discography..
Cooshi -
The word Cushi or Kushi (Hebrew: כּוּשִׁי) is a term generally used in the Hebrew Bible to refer to a dark-skinned person usually of African descent. Initially the word was used by Hebrew-speaking Jews to refer to individuals of Ethiopian origin, derived from the Biblical land of Cush.
In modern Israeli Hebrew usage, the term Cushi was not initially used as a pejorative term.
Alas Vince's experiences as one of the few dark skinned kids in southern Israel in the late 70's and 80's were sometimes down right horrible and the slurs came out bluntly : Vincent van Hessen was the Cushi kid with many dogs.
Thank God it wasn't institutionalized racism but more mean kids picking on the one who's so utterly different, real friends were in abundance.
So in many ways: Vince's still the Cushi after all those years
A note worth mentioning is that Vince even had a dog named
'Coosh'i who protected him from older bullying kids calling after him: "Hey Cushi get lost"
Vince would hiss: "Cooshi go get em boy"
You should have the seen them kids running faster than hares
from Cooshi the dog.
Tracklist
| 1. | Pop City Number 12 | 5:03 |
| 2. | Today is the Very First Day of the Rest of Your Life | 6:21 |
| 3. | Noah | 4:03 |
| 4. | Black Lady with Blue Eyes | 3:23 |
| 5. | Spare some Change for a Brother | 3:14 |
| 6. | The Boogie up Your Nose | 4:41 |
| 7. | The Hitcher | 4:32 |
| 8. | Yaponsa | 4:25 |
| 9. | Air | 4:16 |
Credits
Produced by : Vincent van Hessen
Except for: 'Noah' and 'The Hitcher'. Produced by: Peer Rave.
Vincent van Hessen: Acoustic and electric guitars, guitar synthesizer, vocals, percussion. and Groove-box MC 505 programming.
Arkady Zapesotsky: Drums, percussion and rainmaker.
Shani ben Canar: Percussion
Atman: Congas - On 'Pop City Number 12'
John Aponno: Bass guitar.
Yossi Fine: Bass guitar - On "Spare some Change for a Brother', 'Yaponsa' and 'Black Lady with Blue Eyes'.
