Hey all, im looking to get hold of some jewish music tonight... do any of you have any songs you could send me? I need to take some into university tomorow :S
I got a whole bunch of Israeli music in Hebrew... Israeli national anthem... stuff like that if you're interested. MSN me @ pavelrubin@hotmail.com
http://www.sixthirteen.org/kolzimrah/resources/ Mp3s from kabbalat Shabbat, which is the mystical service on Friday night. There is also klezmer, which is Ashkenazic (Eastern European) Jewish folk music. http://www.golemrocks.com/html/music/ Golem is a modern klezmer band. They have foreign influences, but so did klezmer 15 years after it hit American shores. I was going to suggest Matisyahu, the hasidic reggae superstar, but apparently now all of his online music is streaming instead of on mp3. I don't share audio. Although it is claimed to be very old, Jewish liturgical music has changed many times over the years. The hasidim composed many new melodies and the greatest recent influence on liturgical music was a man named shlomo carlebach. This is also a good site for liturgical music: http://www.virtualcantor.com/ Sefardic Jews have different liturgical melodies than ashkenazic Jews. they also have different folk music. Other groups also have their own types of music, like the Yemeni Jews, the Ethiopian Jews, etc. Dauer
You can also always download stuff from kazza or so like "Fiedler on the roof", or any Yiddish music.
also there are some really good contemporary israeli artists such as Mosh Ben-Ari, Aviv Geffen, Subliminal and Hadag Nahash. The last two are quite political with subliminal being right wing and hadag nahash being left wing but the actual music of either is quite good.
Try to avoid the Debbie Friedman stuff. Some of it is very good, and the cantor at my synagoge loves her, but most of it isn't as good as other music is. It doesn't really have the same feeling as a lot of other Jewish music does.
Best jewish song by Billy Joel Captain Jack Lyrics Saturday night and you're still hangin' around Tired of livin' in your one-horse town Like to find a little hole in the ground For a while So you go to the village in your tie-dye jeans And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens It's just like some pornographic magazine And you smile Captain Jack will get you high tonight And take you to your special island Captain Jack will get you by tonight Just a little push and you'll be smilin' Your sister's gone out. She's on a date You just sit at home and masturbate The phone is gonna ring soon but you just can't wait For that call So you stand on the corner in you New English clothes And you look so polished from your hair down to your toes But still your finger's gonna pick your nose After all But Captain Jack will get you high tonight And take you to your special island Captain Jack will get you by tonight Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin' La da da, Oh yeah, yeah So you decide to take a holiday You got your tape deck and your brand new Chevrolet Ah but there's no place to go anyway And what for... You've got everything, but nothing's cool They've just found your father in the swimming pool And you guess you won't be going back to school Anymore... But Captain Jack will get you high tonight And take you to your special island Captain Jack will get you by tonight Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin' La da da, Oh yeah, yeah So you play your albums and you smoke your pot And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot Oh, but still you're aching for the things you have not got What went wrong... And if you can't understand why your world is so dead And why you've got to keep in style and feed your head Well, you're twenty-one and still your mother makes your bed And that's too long... But Captain Jack will get you high tonight And take you to your special island Captain Jack will get you by tonight Just a little push 'n' you'll be smilin' Yeah, Captain Jack will get you by tonight Yeah, Captain Jack will get you by tonight
there isn't realy a thing such as "jewish music". since jews around the world were seprated from each other 2000 years ago, allmost all of the original athno-national jewish culture was lost in time. each comunnity tended to adapt the culture of its surroundings. and so the music of sephardim, who are jews from north africa and arab countries, resemble arab music, and the ashkenazic music is basically adapted east-europien music. the closest thing to real jewish music is the "Hazanut", which is the ceremonial way of reading the torrah. if you ever been to a bar-mitzva, the strange noises that the young boy standing in the middle is making are attempted Hazanut. since both of the main parts of judaism ,sephrdic and ashkenazic, practice this way of reading, though in slightley diffrent ways, to my opinion it is the only real cmopletly jewish music. and by the way - Tayler, where ever did you come across aviv geffen?
