Life of the Worlds: Journeys in Jewish Sacred Music
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Performer: Alex BaumPerformer: Stuart Brotman
Performer: Sheldon Brown
Composer: Menakhem Mendel
Composer: Nachman of Bratslav
Composer: Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Composer: Jewish Traditional
Composer: Yiddish Traditional
Composer: Shneur Zalman of Lyady
Performer: Gerry Tenney
Performer: Richard Kaplan
Performer: Bouchaib Abdelhadi
Performer: Daniel Hoffman
Performer: Jeremy Cohen [violin]
Performer: Amit Bleiweiss
Performer: Dror Sinai
Performer: Jenny Bemesderfer
Performer: Julie Batz
Performer: Lynn Feinerman
Performer: Maggid Daniel Lev
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-12-03
Music Label: Five Souls Music
Soundtracks:
- Ha'aderet Veha'emunah/LeKhay Olamim - Yemen
- Le'El Adir Neranenah - Afghanistan
- Bati Legani - Eastern Europe
- Kinah Lekhurban Gan Eden - Eastern Europe
- Sephardi Yerushalmi Khatsi Kaddish - Jerusalem/Spain
- Navah Tehilah - Afghanistan
- Hayoshevet Baganim - Yemen
- Eyn Keloheynu - Morocco
- Modeh Ani/Elohay Neshamah - Salonica
- Eli Shema Koli - Morocco
- Reb Nachman's Niggun - Ukraine
- Hishtapkhut Hanefesh - Belarus
- Niggun of the Alter Rebbe - Belarus
- Ve'erastikh Li - Salonica
- El Mistater - Poland
- Ashrey - Eastern Europe/Spain
- Yemeni Shema - Yemen
- Grandfather Sang a Song - Eastern Europe
Free Music Notes for Life of the Worlds: Journeys in Jewish Sacred Music
Free Music Review: Hashir vehashevakh
Hit: 5 Stars
This is my favorite Jewish music album. Many of the songs are the prayers of my heart, anyone can find a connection. The booklet gives a history of the song, the words in Hebrew with transliteration, and the English translation.
Life of the Worlds: Journeys in Jewish Sacred Music Poster
A remarkable collection of vocal performances of Jewish sacred music from the Middle East, Andalusia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia - songs of exultation, longing, love, and Divine immanence - accompanied by an ensemble of masterful musicians.Instruments include: oud, ney, kanun, Egyptian accordian, violin, mandolin, dumbek, doira, riqq, Yemenite can, tar, saz, clarinet, mey (Turkish duduk), tilinca (Rumanian shepherd's flute), piano, string bass, balaban (Klezmer drum set), cimbalom, and a chorus of voices.
Among many special songs, the CD features an 'eco-lament' (ecological lament) based on lament melodies for the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. It is called "Lament on the Destruction of the Garden of Eden" (Kinah Lekhurban Gan Eden), and updates the use of these tunes to mourn the wounding of our larger temple, Gaia - Mother Earth.
LIFE OF THE WORLDS contains 18 songs, 77 minutes of music, and contains a 32-page booklet which includes informative song descriptions; all texts are provided in transliteration, English translation, and in Hebrew or Yiddish.
This CD was three years in the making, and presents the first recordings in North America of several songs from the treasure-chest of Jewish sacred music.
The modern-day traditional Jewish music revival is filled with artists exploring klezmer's Eastern-European roots, but you'll hear no clarinet and little violin on cantor/educator Richard Kaplan's Life Of The Worlds. Although these are traditional songs, there is a broad range of the Diaspora represented on his second album, including Afghani, Spanish, Moroccan, and Algerian traditions. Kaplan dives into the sacred and the secular, the prophetic and the exultant, finding commonalities amongst different tribes and fusing them together. Musical accompaniment comes in the form of an occasional flute, piano, and violin as well as Moroccan clay drums, oud, dumbek, and other pre-modern-era instruments, but the instrument at the center of each song is Kaplan's voice--his high baritone majestically soars, quavers with sensitivity, and rings out with joy. To hear him sing solo versions of traditional Niggiun is to hear a world-class master savor the multifaceted nuance of each note and transcend the concept of song, turning it into religion and high art. --Tad Hendrickson
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