חברה, חברה איתיה לה

 Sarit Hadad comes out in new song.

Joey Weisenberg - Darkecha

 

From the mailbag...

Rabbi Alty emails a link to his new Leonard Cohen cover in the spirit of the season.

Say It Again, Sam?

Liturgical Repetition: When Singing Becomes Sacrilegious | The Lehrhaus

Oy-neg Shabes!

The Yiddish Cover of Jimmy Buffett You Didn't Know You Needed

Just Stop It!

I have to say this!

It's becoming a thing to do the Shlomo Carlebach bit in the middle of Im Eshkachech. "If you would have stop a Yiddele on the way to the gas chamber and ask him 'where are you going?' He'd have answered: 'I'm on my way to Yerusholayim'... etc." I've had several singers do this at gigs I played.

I can not express how tasteless I feel this is. I have no words. Just chills. You all need to stop it; not post video clips of yourselves doing it. For goodness sakes, there are still survivors at some of these events and there are many children (and grandchildren) of survivors. Maybe Shlomo could pull this off (I'm not convinced). You, however, definitely can't.

Un A Taam

Ta Shma

Over at the Lehrhaus... Secular Music and the Jewish Soul

Un-Unorthodox Lines

Wait Till They Learn About Freilachs...

 South Korea bans fast exercise music.

Don't Judge!

A Heilige March

Over at Oneg Shabbat... אהבת הדסה: שיר לכת טורקי שהפך לשיר קודש יהודי

Some great clips here!

Remembering Shragee Gestetner Z"L

Over at the Forward... His Voice Was the Sound of Music

BD'E - Shragee Gestetner Z"L

 Meron Victim Shragee Gestetner remembered for valuing family over fame

The Song Remains The Same

Lakewood Askonim furious after forged signature appears on alleged letter...

What Else Is Neias?

OP-ED: Lag Baomer Lakewood Event Misrepresented To Rabbis

Lag BaOmer Banfire

Lakewood's BMG Bans Separate Seating Lag Baomer Concert

Shavous Is Coming

A Karaite setting of an ancient piyut for Shavuot. It's apparently unclear if the author, Elyakim, was Karaite or Rabbinic.

Ronnu Shamayim Shavuot Song (w/translation and transliteration)

Ronnu Shamayim (Shavuot Song) Instrumental

Glamourous Frum Female Singers

Over at Glamour... Orthodox Jewish Women Can't Sing In Front of Men. Instagram Is Giving Them a Voice

Eschew Censorship

Came across this channel the other day. Someone, presumably a Chasid/Yeshiva community member, who wanted to be able to listen to secular pop instrumentals with plausible deniability, uploaded an album of "Munkatcher nigunim" to YouTube. Here's "Nigun L'harchakas Sheidim [a melody to keep away demons].

Haleluhu Kol Goyim

Y'varech - Dancing To Freedom by Alty Weinreb, Marillia Quevedo & Mariella Haubs

Da'as Torah!

Artsy Music!

The art of music notation blends with the art of imagination!

Eli Schwebel - Whole With You

"World Of Good" Arranged and Performed by Tali Yess Lyrics by Moshe Yess OBM

Can't believe it's already been ten years. A beautiful tribute to Moshe Yess Z"L... His son Tali Yess releases a cover of a song Moshe wrote to mark his tenth yahrtzeit.

From the mailbag... Orthoglocks

From the mailbag:

After a somewhat short to medium length hiatus from releasing new music, Orthoglocks is the latest (and first of 2021) Edd Bundy 'Themed' beat tape to be released.

Basically taking things back to ancestral roots, this instrumental album embodies and delves into the Jewish musical world whilst adding the usual Edd Bundy sounding Hip Hop twist on things.

The entire project is available on a "name your price" basis via Bandcamp, just trying to brighten up the day of a few people along the way in a time where importance lies on a few laughs, a few smiles and some really good Hip Hop.

https://eddbundyhk.bandcamp.com/album/orthoglocks

Tracklisting:

01 Bund The Edd

02 Hella Greater

03 Going AvraHAM

04 Its Shalom Shot

05 Jank Coy

06 Tumbala Liker

07 Dreidilla (Skit)

08 Eights

09 Jew Shot Yananana

10 Synagogue Chess

11 Halev Ready

Chazzan Yaakov Lemmer - Ono B'koach - Shlisky

Power Ballad About the Siyum HaShas

For Chanukah, Zusha Recorded Yetziv Pisgam?

Move Over, Maccabeats!

From the mailbag...

Rabbi Moshe Friedman writes:

For the Chanukah period, I thought you’d be interested in covering this year’s most exciting new Chanukah music video.  “Light One More” by Rav Mo is a hip-hop/pop breakout song, produced by a Grammy award-winning producer and mastered at the world famous Abbey Road Studios in London.

With a message of increasing light in the darkness, it addresses some of the difficulties of families separated during the Covid lockdown.  For more information please see the attached press release and photograph.

The video can be viewed here: Rav Mo - Light One More feat. Yoni Shine - Hanukkah - YouTube

From the mailbag...

Ari Goldwag writes:

I just put out a new video, and I'd love it if you'd share it on your blog.

I really try to create songs with meaningful lyrics and music, as well as videos with good content - the idea behind the video is that the lyrics speak of our trust in Hashem (Bitachon) and our ecstatic song for all the good He does for us. I tried to express that in the imagery of the caterpillar (our hope for the future) and the butterflies - the beautiful expression of Hashem's kindness that comes when we wait for it.

Thanks so much,

Ari Goldwag

https://youtu.be/m-cwEwFPbMQ

Lehrhaus on Hanan Ben Ari

Don't Summarize Me On Wikipedia

I'm Running Away From This One

It That Time of Year!