The disc remains elusive after being released by the small Highlights label in Moshav Udim, Israel. Every major Israeli label turned Murkus down, while a stubborn streak has kept her from signing overseas distribution deals with a number of trans-national record companies that have come calling. Murkus recounted one of her earlier attempts to get the CD made. She'd already been championed by such leading lights on the Israeli music scene as David Broza, Yehudit Tamir, Shlomo Bar, Alon Oleartchik, and Amos Hadani. We don't have enough of a market to sell such material,' they said.
Most Arab countries boycott Israeli exports.
They confided to me that 'We are afraid of your text, because you might sing political songs. Then they came back and said, 'We have an idea. We will introduce you to an Egyptian producer. That hurt me because I was born in Israel, I live in Israel, I am a citizen of Israel, and I think this is within my rights to make my own CD in my own country, as other Israeli singers make their own CDs. So I started to be stubborn.