You Can Hear It Your Own Way

The Album

Blending traditions, styles, and musical instruments from Yemen, Morocco, Israel, and the wider Arab and Western worlds, this groundbreaking new project aims to celebrate artistic collaboration while modeling the richness of difference. YOU CAN HEAR IT YOUR OWN WAY is rooted in the urgent conviction that no two people hear a song in quite the same way, and yet experience can be shared, sparking deeper human connection through sound, bridging divides and fostering understanding across diverse communities.

This sonic voyage uses music to bring people together at a time of growing social and cultural division. By uniting musicians from diverse traditions in genuine cross-cultural collaboration, it creates shared experiences that invite audiences to not only listen and feel, but engage across difference. The music creates a space for empathy—offering a model of coexistence beyond politics, language, or borders. Once completed, the work will be released widely and performed live, reaching new audiences, and strengthening intercultural networks. Designed as a foundation for ongoing collaboration, it will inspire future projects that bring people together through music.

Support

Support YOU CAN HEAR IT YOUR OWN WAY with a tax-deductible donation.

Your generous support directly enables the creation, recording, and sharing of a musical experience rooted in genuine collaboration with a core purpose of bringing people together. While Volume One of this project has been completed, support is essential to finish Volume Two and to fully publish and share the project as a whole. Contributions sustain every stage of production at the highest professional level—from recording, mixing, and mastering to video and photo documentation—along with community outreach and a thoughtful marketing campaign. Together, this support helps connect music lovers across cultures, expand the project’s reach, and foster a vibrant, engaged community.

Segev Harosh

Vocals, Oud, Guitar

Daniel Rein

Piano

Yuli Beeri

Vocals

Daniel Ori

Bass

Evan Francis

Reeds

Yair Tzabari

Vocals

Yonathan Peled

Trombone

James Haddad

Trumpet

Almog Sharvit

Bass

Bligh Voth

Vocals

Yoni Avi Battat

Oud & Violin

Micha Gilad

Keys

Oren Neiman

Guitar

George Crotty

Cello

Tamar Eisenman

Guitar

Mike Cefalo

Vocals

Amongst other

talented friends...

Roger Kashou

Darbuka

Collaboration

This project brings together a diverse group of more than 20 artists to create a cohesive musical experience rooted in cross-cultural exchange. The album celebrates the richness of difference while modeling the magical cohesion across difference that artistic collaboration can achieve. The ensemble of musicians who joined to record Shai's songs reflects this mission. Their varied backgrounds are central to the project’s purpose: producing music with a sound that could only be created through collaboration, intermingling traditions and lived experiences.