Shadows - Songs from Testimonies, Vol. 3 audio CD with booklet (liner notes, lyrics with transliterations and translations)
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Side D contains original testimnonies' audio clips from the Fortunoff Video Archive, edited and mastered for this edition.
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Odom haRishon Nign—אדם הראשון ניגון
We are concluding Volume 3 of Songs from Testimonies with a Hassidic nign that Jack M. remembered from his childhood years in the Polish town of Szydłowiec. The tune hasn’t lost its popularity through to the present, being one of the most beloved and often-sung nign in many Ashkenazic synagogues today. Composed by Rabbi Israel of Modzits around 1900 to the lyrics of Omar Hashem L’Ya’akov (The Lord Said to Jacob), otherwise known under the title Al-tira avdi Ya’akov—“Jacob, My servant, do not fear” (Isaiah 44:2).
Cantor Jeff Warschauer, as part of his ethnographic fieldwork, recorded Joseph Achsen, an old generation ba’al tfíle, who said that in pre-WWII Montreal he had put this tune to the words of B’ney Heikholo (בני היכלא), a Shabbat table song. In our current day, the tune has acquired the name of Odom ha-Rishon Nign—the Nign of Adam / the First Human. Jack performs this song in his inimitably warm yet poignant manner.
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from Shadows - Songs from Testimonies, Vol. 3,
released January 19, 2024
Music: Rabbi Israel of Modzits, a folklorized variant. Arranged by D. Zisl Slepovitch.
Performed by Jack M. testimony hvt.1555.
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One of the best new albums of Yiddish and Klezmer music on Bandcamp in my opinion. The collaboration of two sensitive artists of different generations who know a lot about Yiddish and American music.
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One of my favourite musical discoveries in a while. These musicians are seriously talented. I can’t help imagining that there would have been a whole significant subculture of Yiddish psych rock like this in a different, kinder universe. For now, this is a window into that world that might have been. And I love every second of it. Audrey
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