256 words by Water Knives about their new single Exposure, out of the album ‘Scratch - a Tribute To Peter Gabriel’

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” (Viktor Frenkel)

Our choice of the song Exposure for the Peter Gabriel tribute project came directly from what the original song is - fertile grounds for reaping and sowing.

So we took some rhythmic and melodic hooks from the original song and started searching. At one point Peter Gabriel's words crept in - "space is what I need, it's what I feed on".
We tried delving into the essence of space, tried to understand how spaciousness serves us, what it provides us, what is allows. That's how we got to Viktor Frenkel. From there it was just a short path until Ofer recited an original text in Arabic, translated from English by Maisa Matar (the original text and translation below). So in a way, we covered the concept, not the music itself. And there you have it. Space is what you need, amen.

Gabriel, an avid supporter of the BDS, would surely be happy to find out that the music of a Tel Aviv based band contains texts in Arabic that describe the human weakness we all share, regardless of language or political borders. The weakness of self dismissal and lack of space.

October 2018 saw the release of Water Knives’ debut album Contents Hidden, a unique, intriguing blend of electronics and kraut rock, middle eastern spy movies, large cinematic soundscapes, and above all a child-like thirst for curiosity and creativity.

Exposure is a journey that kicks off with African styled percussion and morphs into techno, followed by a confession of human weakness. That confession later on disentangles into Victor Frenkel's text holding the optimism we see in front of us. In our response lie growth and freedom, and that's it actually. Space is all we need.