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12/30/2024
Hanukkah gelt has finally adjusted for inflation
12/28/2024

Hanukkah gelt has finally adjusted for inflation

Happy Chanukah!
12/25/2024

Happy Chanukah!

We’re excited to announce the upcoming release of All Silent Things Speak Today, featuring Adrienne Cooper of blessed me...
12/20/2024

We’re excited to announce the upcoming release of All Silent Things Speak Today, featuring Adrienne Cooper of blessed memory and pianist/composer Marilyn Lerner. The album brings to life 10 Yiddish poems by modernist poet Anna Margolin, set to music by Lerner and sung by Cooper in both Yiddish and Cooper’s English translation.

This intimate collaboration reflects deep personal, artistic, and emotional ties between the artists. The compositions, blending jazz, classical, and Yiddish song traditions, capture themes of memory, romance, solitude, and nostalgia. Margolin’s vivid poems explore nature, longing, and loss, while Cooper’s powerful voice and Lerner’s unique musical language bring these themes to life in a bold, modern way.

All Silent Things Speak Today is available for preorder now on vinyl and CD, and will debut at the Dreaming in Yiddish concert next week. All proceeds will benefit the Adrienne Cooper Dreaming in Yiddish Fund, supporting new Yiddish artists. - see link in bio

Gut Shabes
12/07/2024

Gut Shabes

Available today from Borscht Beat! The exceptional Viennese Yiddish singer Isabel Frey’s gorgeous new album “Di fliendik...
10/24/2024

Available today from Borscht Beat! The exceptional Viennese Yiddish singer Isabel Frey’s gorgeous new album “Di fliendike pave".

“Di fliendike pave” (Yiddish for “The Flying Peacock”) explores the ongoing vitality of Yiddish songs through the ages. The peacock, a popular symbolic motif in Yiddish poetry, represents artistic creativity and diversity.

This album presents Frey’s new original musical settings of Yiddish poetry from the early 20th century with a special focus on often forgotten modernist poets. It also includes fresh interpretations and arrangements of both popular and lesser-known folk songs. The thematic range of the songs extends from tragicomic love and anti-love songs to secular prayers and utopian waltzes for a better world. Beyond mere nostalgia, the album offers an engaging experience in which Yiddish can be heard not as a relic of a bygone world, but as a living part of a continuing cultural tradition.

While Frey’s first album “Millennial Bundist” was largely a solo project, on this new album she is supported by an outstanding ensemble: klezmer violinist Zoe Aqua, vocalist and bassist Benjy Fox-Rosen, accordionist Ivan Trenev, clarinetist Moritz Weiß, and Alexander Yannilos on percussion. In their arrangements and compositions, the ensemble combines a variety of influences, including klezmer, Romanian and south-eastern European folk music, jazz and contemporary music. Despite this breadth of stylistic influence, the interpretation of the songs is firmly rooted in Eastern European Jewish music culture and its traditional singing styles.

Isabel Frey is a leading Yiddish vocalist, and this album is both a beautiful listening experience and a demonstration of her exemplary skill and scholarship in the realm of Yiddish folk song.
“Di fliendike pave” is available now for digital download and on CD

https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/di-fliendike-pave

10/21/2024

We are excited to share “L'chu Neranana” - a video from Frank London’s new album “In The City Of God” which is available today at the link below!

This song uses Psalm 95, the Psalm for Wednesday, as the source text and translates to
“Come, let us sing joyously to the Lord,
raise a shout for our rock and deliverer;
let us come into His presence with praise;
let us raise a shout for Him in song!
For the Lord is a great God,
the great king of all divine beings.”

On May 22, 2024, an all-star group of klezmer musicians and Jewish singers met at Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, NY under the auspices of Shoresh Halev Center for Jewish Music to record 8 new compositions by klezmer giant Frank London. These brilliant new songs are meant to be sung while dancing hakafot on Simchat Torah. The recording session was held on the eve of Frank's treatment for a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer and what ensued was a beautiful evening of spiritual uplift and close, loving Jewish community. Borscht Beat and Shoresh Halev are very pleased to share these recordings with the world, in hopes of welcoming all of you to our table in peace and ecstatic joy.
https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-city-of-god

10/10/2024

We are excited to share “Tov L'hodot” - the fourth video from Frank London’s upcoming album “In The City Of God” which is available for preorder today at the link below!

This song uses Psalm 92, the Psalm for Shabbat, as the source text and translates to
“It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
to sing hymns to Your name, Oh Most High
To proclaim Your steadfast love at daybreak,
Your faithfulness each night
In old age, they still bring forth fruit and are full of sap and richness”

On May 22, 2024, an all-star group of klezmer musicians and Jewish singers met at Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, NY under the auspices of Shoresh Halev Center for Jewish Music to record 8 new compositions by klezmer giant Frank London. These brilliant new songs are meant to be sung while dancing hakafot on Simchat Torah. The recording session was held on the eve of Frank's treatment for a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer and what ensued was a beautiful evening of spiritual uplift and close, loving Jewish community. Borscht Beat and Shoresh Halev are very pleased to share these recordings with the world, in hopes of welcoming all of you to our table in peace and ecstatic joy.
https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-city-of-god

10/07/2024

Today we share “B’rov Sarapai” - the third video from Frank London’s upcoming album “In The City Of God”, a more somber and reflective tune, in contrast with the seven other upbeat and joyous pieces.

This song uses Psalm 94 as the source text and translates to “When worrisome thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations soothe my soul.”

We hope this tune and these words aid in your contemplation today and to find peace within yourself amid the chaos around us all.

On May 22, 2024, an all-star group of klezmer musicians and Jewish singers met at Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, NY under the auspices of Shoresh Halev Center for Jewish Music to record 8 new compositions by klezmer giant Frank London. These brilliant new songs are meant to be sung while dancing hakafot on Simchat Torah. The recording session was held on the eve of Frank's treatment for a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer and what ensued was a beautiful evening of spiritual uplift and close, loving Jewish community. Borscht Beat and Shoresh Halev are very pleased to share these recordings with the world, in hopes of welcoming all of you to our table in peace and ecstatic joy.

https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-city-of-god

10/02/2024

Shana tova! A zis yor!

We are very excited to share “Kuma Elohim” - the second video from Frank London’s upcoming album “In The City Of God” which is available for preorder today at the link below!

This song uses Psalm 82, the Psalm for Tuesday, as the source text and translates to “Arise, God, judge the earth, for You will inherit all the nations.”

On May 22, 2024, an all-star group of klezmer musicians and Jewish singers met at Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, NY under the auspices of Shoresh Halev Center for Jewish Music to record 8 new compositions by klezmer giant Frank London. These brilliant new songs are meant to be sung while dancing hakafot on Simchat Torah. The recording session was held on the eve of Frank's treatment for a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer and what ensued was a beautiful evening of spiritual uplift and close, loving Jewish community. Borscht Beat and Shoresh Halev are very pleased to share these recordings with the world, in hopes of welcoming all of you to our table in peace and ecstatic joy.

https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-city-of-god

09/25/2024

On May 22 of this year, an all-star group of klezmer musicians and Jewish singers met at Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, NY under the auspices of Shoresh Halev Center for Jewish Music at Beth El to record 8 new compositions by klezmer giant Frank London. These brilliant new songs are meant to be sung while dancing hakafot on Simchat Torah. The recording session was held on the eve of Frank's treatment for a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer and what ensued was a beautiful evening of spiritual uplift and close loving Jewish community. In hopes of sharing the power of this music, today we are premiering the first of these eight new songs: L’Adonai Ha’aretz which uses Psalm 24, the Psalm for Sunday, as a text. The text translates to “The earth is Adonai’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell in it. For God founded it upon the ocean, set it on the nether-streams.”

The full album “In The City of God” will be released on October 15th on Borscht Beat.

Name a more iconic trio… I’ll wait
09/11/2024

Name a more iconic trio… I’ll wait

From the comically bad horror film “The Offering” from 2023
09/10/2024

From the comically bad horror film “The Offering” from 2023

Some transliterated Yiddish art from Bread and Puppet
09/06/2024

Some transliterated Yiddish art from Bread and Puppet

Andy Statman trio 😮 🔥 🤯 🥁
09/05/2024

Andy Statman trio 😮 🔥 🤯 🥁

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