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You'd never guess that in presenting a slice of "radical Jewish culture," John Zorn would produce an album as exquisitely beautiful as guitarist Tim Sparks's Neshamah. Collecting traditional Jewish melodies from throughout Eastern Europe and the Middle East, this collection mixes the architecture of the melodies with Sparks's fast fingerwork, corralling the latter into discreet enough bits to create a constant sense of movement and drama. Given the prevalence of full bands in much Balkan and Klezmer music, Sparks's solo renditions have an awe-inducing power. He cherishes not only each note, even when they're coming with flashing speed, but he equally indulges each bent-string twist and turn. --Andrew Bartlett
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Neshamah
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Life of the Worlds: Journeys in Jewish Sacred Music
Manufacturer: Five Souls Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000172L72 Release Date: 2003-12-03 |
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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 HendricksonAlbum Description
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
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Sony DRX 710 UL - DVDRW (dual layer) drive - Hi-Speed USB/IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
Manufacturer: Sony Product Group: CE Binding: Electronics ASIN: B00068F646 |
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Sony's new DRX-710UL/T adds dual platform to Sony's list of impressive features with its latest Dual Format, Double Layer DVD burners. This exciting new drive can record at 16X max, burning a full DVD in as little as 6 minutes. It can also burn DVD+R DL Double layer discs capable of storing up to 4 hours of MPEG-2 video or up to 8.5GB of data on a single sided disc with 2 recordable layers. Once recorded, DVD+R DL discs are compatible with home DVD players and DVD-ROM drives. Of course, the DRX-710UL/T can also record standard 4.7GB DVD+R and DVD+RW discs and CDs too! Want more? The DRX-710UL/T comes bundled with award winning Roxio Toast software for Macintosh and Nero software suite for Windows, so all your burning projects will turn out perfectly!Now burning your home movies, digital pictures, music, and data onto DVD & CD is faster and more convenient than ever. External drive incorporates dual interfaces; Hi-Speed USB 2.0/1.1 and i.LINK (FireWire/IEEE1394 compatible) so installation is a snap.Customer Reviews:
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