CD-Charts Position 91

Sanctuary: A Cathedral Concert

CD-Charts > Music > Jewish and Yiddish Music
by: Kitka & Tzvetanka Varimezova

Release Date March 18, 2008

CD-Charts Position 92
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Masada Rock

CD-Charts > Music > Jewish and Yiddish Music
by: Rashanim

Release Date July 26, 2005
Once the enfant terrible of new music, with his jump cut compositions and post-modern all inclusive sensibility, composer John Zorn has dedicated himself to the construction of the Masada song-book, a series of tunes that he hopes will eventually become Jazz standards. Based on traditional Yiddish scales and rhythms, Zorn's investigation of his own Jewish heritage has proven to be his most popular undertaking.

His initial forays into this song-book over a decade ago were documented by his own original Masada Quartet and later by chamber music ensembles, including his Masada String Trio. These infectious, tuneful pieces have now been handed over to a new generation to explore.

Rashanim is guitarist Jon Madof's power ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 93
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Coming Clean

CD-Charts > Music > Jewish and Yiddish Music
by: Gary Lucas, Gods and Monsters

Release Date October 17, 2006
Gary Lucas, guitarist extraordinaire, unfurls his dynamic strings and lassos them around our ears as we become the blessed victims of the latest unleashing of his brilliance. Together with his Gods and Monsters gang, Gary assaults and redefines our aesthetics boundaries.

Right off the bat, he once again digs his digits into an axe and whacks out a fabulous phantasmagoria of slide guitar, blues-y licks, and lascivious vocal warnings, all woven around his fable of the delicious but dangerous Fata Morgana.

"Her icy stare, her mournful air can hypnotize all sailors
Who now full fathom five doth lie beneath her coral jailer
As cruel Morgana seals your fate just when you've come to nail her"

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CD-Charts Position 94
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Shalom Comrade

CD-Charts > Music > Jewish and Yiddish Music
from: Wergo Germany

Release Date February 14, 2006
Gary Lucas, guitarist extraordinaire, unfurls his dynamic strings and lassos them around our ears as we become the blessed victims of the latest unleashing of his brilliance. Together with his Gods and Monsters gang, Gary assaults and redefines our aesthetics boundaries.

Right off the bat, he once again digs his digits into an axe and whacks out a fabulous phantasmagoria of slide guitar, blues-y licks, and lascivious vocal warnings, all woven around his fable of the delicious but dangerous Fata Morgana.

"Her icy stare, her mournful air can hypnotize all sailors
Who now full fathom five doth lie beneath her coral jailer
As cruel Morgana seals your fate just when you've come to nail her"

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CD-Charts Position 95
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50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 11

CD-Charts > Music > Jewish and Yiddish Music
by: Bar Kokhba Sextet

Release Date July 26, 2005
In September of 2003, John Zorn celebrated his fiftieth birthday through a series of performances at Tonic in Manhattan. During this series, two days worth of performances (four sets) were done by the Bar Kokhba Sextet-- the Masada String Trio (Mark Feldman- violin, Erik Friedlander- cello, Greg Cohen- bass) augmented by guitarist Marc Ribot, drummer Joey Baron and percussionist Cyro Baptista. This set devotes one of each of its three CDs to a set (for anyone curious, the second set is the one thats omitted).

The first set, running about an hour, finds the group in an excited mood, in particular drummer Joey Baron. I've often found that Baron's strength is in his subtlety, but this performance would never let you know that-- he's ferocious ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 96
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The Shabbat Synagogue Companion (Audio CD)

CD-Charts > Music > Jewish and Yiddish Music
by: Rabbi Zalman Goldstein, Chaim Fogleman

Release Date August 15, 2002
In September of 2003, John Zorn celebrated his fiftieth birthday through a series of performances at Tonic in Manhattan. During this series, two days worth of performances (four sets) were done by the Bar Kokhba Sextet-- the Masada String Trio (Mark Feldman- violin, Erik Friedlander- cello, Greg Cohen- bass) augmented by guitarist Marc Ribot, drummer Joey Baron and percussionist Cyro Baptista. This set devotes one of each of its three CDs to a set (for anyone curious, the second set is the one thats omitted).

The first set, running about an hour, finds the group in an excited mood, in particular drummer Joey Baron. I've often found that Baron's strength is in his subtlety, but this performance would never let you know that-- he's ferocious ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 97
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Tuning The Soul: Worlds of Jewish Sacred Music

CD-Charts > Music > Jewish and Yiddish Music
by: Richard Kaplan, Michael Ziegler

Release Date August 04, 1999
I found this CD by accident and am glad I did. It has become one of my top favorite CDs. We play it every week on Shabbat now. Anyone that knows and understands the Siddur should really appreciate this wonderful music. Some things are timeless and this music is one of them.

CD-Charts Position 98
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The Shabbat Table Companion (Audio CD)

CD-Charts > Music > Jewish and Yiddish Music
by: Rabbi Zalman Goldstein, Cahim Fogleman

Release Date February 25, 2003
The Shabbat Table Companion (Audio CD) sung by Rabbi Zalman Goldstein is delightful for learning traditional Sabbath Table (at home) "Tifilah" (Prayers).

CD-Charts Position 99
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Let Go

CD-Charts > Music > Jewish and Yiddish Music
by: David Zeller

Release Date December 01, 2004
The Shabbat Table Companion (Audio CD) sung by Rabbi Zalman Goldstein is delightful for learning traditional Sabbath Table (at home) "Tifilah" (Prayers).

CD-Charts Position 100
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Masada: Live in Sevilla 2000

CD-Charts > Music > Jewish and Yiddish Music
by: Masada

Release Date July 25, 2000
Masada's studio albums never quite captured what the band was capable of-- live, the group is an experience, breathing into themselves and becoming more than the sum of their parts. "Live in Sevilla" is another fine example of this.

The band, for anyone unfamiliar, was put together by John Zorn to perform a songbook he wrote to be similar to Monk's-- themes upon which improvisation could occur. The catch is that Zorn wrote these with the so-called Jewish scales, lending that Middle Eastern meets Eastern European sensibility to it. The band-- modelled after Ornette Coleman's great quartets on his Atlantic albums-- Zorn on alto sax, Dave Douglas on trumpet, Greg Cohen on bass and Joey Baron on drums-- performs with a near-psychic level of spontaneous ... Read More: