Interviews and essays that explore Jewish music, spirituality, and identity
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There are also people from places like Libya, Tripoli, and Egypt who came here—Jews from all around the world basically—and a lot of people from Africa. You get this African sound that has also a specific pulse to it. I am not talking about the beat, I am talking about a pulse/1
It’s like whatever tempo or groove you play, it has some sort of feel to it. You can’t really pin it down, but it is that sound that’s in between.
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"Our music is original and for us it is very Israeli. It is something new that is built on all the old traditions of music, but it is new music that is inspired by the Israeli ear, which is that fusion of everything."
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Most of the world fell in love with @bmblackmidi from afar. But I actually got to speak with them. Check out my feature for @premierguitar
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Check out my interview with the amazing Israeli drummer, Amir Bresler.
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On VHS?
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"That’s the beauty of the nigun. When you get enough people together and they are all singing, it is super powerful, no matter what its degree of musical perfection."
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On spontaneous composition, playing in blues bars as a teenager, the softening Jewish communal resistance to grassroots song and a lot more in Joey's conversation with @TheRealTzvi for @TheIngathering_ bit.ly/2TyboZo
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"All musicians work somewhere in between craft and inspiration. But when you have a moment of inspiration, you have to let it go, because those are the most amazing melodies. They are real. They come out without even your intervention." bit.ly/2TyboZo @TheIngathering_
"Jewish life was seen largely as a passive activity. You come and you watch somebody else do something at you. Singing is the opposite of passive." /1
It requires you to enter the picture, and that is deeply uncomfortable for a Jewish community that largely prefers—especially in those generations—largely prefer to pay somebody else to do things for them."
"Singing requires no payment, but it requires the investment of one’s own soul, and one’s own heart into it."
Check out my interview with Joey Weisenberg from @rising_song
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I've been listening to this a lot lately.
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