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here are 10 /jewish/ albums i like:
Naftule Brandwein - King of Klezmer Clarinet
Ofra Haza - Greatest Hits
Jewlia Eisenberg - Trilectic
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Pharaoh's Daughter - Out of the Reeds
VA - 23 Most Famous Israeli Folk Songs (this one)
Pitom - Blasphemy and Other Sins
Chabad Melodies: Niggunei Chassidei Chabad Vol. 1 (this one)
Debbie Friedman - And You Shall Be a Blessing
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb - Mayim Rabim
― Mordy, Monday, 18 May 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
Thanks, I've ordered the Jewlia Eisenberg and Ayelet Rose Gottlieb ones
― Josefa, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
those are probably the best :P the jewlia one is letters (political + love letters) between walter benjamin + asja lacis set to like post-meredith monk vocal stuff, eskimo chanting, throat singing influences, etc. one of my top 10 albums of all time probably.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
this is like my field (what i studied about in grad school + wrote primarily about journalistically for many years) and i could probably generate a list of like top 100 jewish albums. there are a few different genres of jewish music - there's historical and post-historical stuff. so klezmer, ladino, shashmaqam, etc music, and more contemporary artists updating those sounds (dave tarras + brandwein on the more traditional side of klezmer, klezmatics more contemporary, golem is a yiddish klezmer punk band, etc). there's orthodox jewish music (sometimes called shiny shoes music) and even there, there are traditional community artists (avraham freid, MBD, miami boys choir) and then more 'modern orthodox' artists (c lanzbom from soul farm, blue fringe, moshav band). there are like avant garde jazz + klezmer influenced stuff which is a lot of the material on Zorn's Radical Jewish Culture label (and I'd include the Masada projects in that). there is liturgical music, chassidic niggunim music, cantorial music. there is maybe a tradition american jewish artists who don't generally (but occasionally do) have jewish musical or lyrical influences (bob dylan, leonard cohen, al jolson?). lots of great collections too of american jewish music you should check out, esp from reboot - http://www.rebootstereophonic.com - like Songs for the Jewish-American Set, Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black Jewish Relations, Jewface (one of my alltime favorite archival releases), Barry Sisters - Our Way...
all of this doesn't even get into Israeli music which has a few distinct genres + eras of music. and i'm sure i've leaving plenty out above.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
Thanks a lot, it seems that this is a very big box to open. I'll start with some contemporary stuff and see where it leads.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
I'm enjoying the Ayelet Rose Gottlieb CD, Mayim Rabim (lyrics excerpted from King Solomon's Song of Songs). Good recommendation.
― Josefa, Monday, 1 June 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link