For the area in Tel Aviv, see HaKirya

HaKirya

HaKirya, or The Kirya , is an area in central Tel Aviv, containing various government structures, including the major Israel Defense Forces base, Camp Rabin , named for Yitzhak Rabin...

. For other articles beginning with Kiryat-, see Special:Allpages/Kiryat.

Kirya (an ancient Hebrew nickname for Jerusalem) was Ofra Haza

Ofra Haza

Ofra Haza was an Israeli singer of Yemeni origin, an actress and international recording artist....

's 1992 follow-up to the internationally successful Shaday

Shaday

Shaday was a 1988 album by Ofra Haza, released after the international chart success of the single "Im Nin' Alu ." Like the follow-up "Galbi," it was originally included on the 1984 album Yemenite Songs, which consisted of traditional folk songs with lyrics coming from the poetry of 16th century...

(1988) and Desert Wind

Desert Wind (album)

Desert Wind was the 1989 album of Ofra Haza, who was already one the most popular singers in Israel. However, she was unknown in the rest of the world. It was the song "Im Nin'Alu" and the following album Shaday that brought her to the attention of Europe and the United States...

(1989). Building on her successful blend of European pop and traditional Middle Eastern sounds, the album was a logical next step for Haza. Musically, it applied the sensibilities of pop producer Don Was

Don Was

Don Was is an American musician, bassist and record producer.-Life and career:Was was born in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Oak Park High School in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, then attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor but dropped out after the first year...

 to traditional song writing and instrumentation; lyrically, it delivered powerful themes of longing, joy, and the plight of the downtrodden in several languages, much like Haza's earlier work.

Along with producer Was, Haza was joined by other Western musicians, including a featured duet with Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...

 on "Daw Da Hiya", a song about a girl sentenced to death for becoming pregnant out of wedlock while the man responsible remains free.

Track listing

1. "Kirya" (Traditional, Haza, Aloni) - 6:11
2. "Horashoot – The Bridge" (Traditional, Ben Amram, Haza, Aloni) - 3:46
3. "Innocent" – A Requiem for Refugees (Haza, Aloni) - 4:46
4. "Trains of No Return" (Haza, Aloni) - 4:15
5. "Mystery Faith and Love" (Haza, Aloni) - 5:24
6. "Daw Da Hiya" (featuring Iggy Pop
   Iggy Pop
   Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
   
   ) (Haza, Aloni, Morriss) - 4:55
7. "Don't Forsake Me" (Traditional, Shabazi, Haza, Aloni) - 4:35
8. "Barefoot" (Haza, Aloni) - 5:14
9. "Take 7/8" (Amram, Haza, Aloni) - 4:35
10. "Today I'll Pray" (Bonus track certain editions) (Haza, Aloni) - 4:33

Charts

Chart (1992)	Peak position
Top World Music Albums	1

Personnel

• Ofra Haza
  Ofra Haza
  Ofra Haza was an Israeli singer of Yemeni origin, an actress and international recording artist....
  
   - lead vocals
• Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop
  Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
  
   - vocals/narration
• Harry Hyman Vento - violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• John Belezikjian - violin
• Tzur Ben-Zelev - acoustic bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• David McMurray - saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  
• Professor Ali Jihad Racy - percussion
• Rodrigo Manuel - percussion
• Ed Cherney - background vocals
• Martonette Jenkins - background vocals
• Natalie Jackson - background vocals
• Marlena Jetter - background vocals
• Valerie Carter - background vocals

Production

• Don Was
  Don Was
  Don Was is an American musician, bassist and record producer.-Life and career:Was was born in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from Oak Park High School in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park, then attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor but dropped out after the first year...
  
   - record producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  
• Ofra Haza - producer
• Bezalel Aloni - producer
• Recorded at Microplant, Conway, Devonshire, England; Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, California; Bee Studio, Bahia, Brazil.