Archive for November, 2009
Baruch Levine: Touched by a Niggun
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] What do you get when you take a world renowned author and multi talented singer/composer? Touched by a Niggun. Baruch Levine teamed up with Rabbi Yechiel Spero author of Touched by a Story, Prayer etc. to create a very unique type of album. The album, which is entitled [...]
JMR Song of the Week!
Jewish Music Report is very excited to launch a new weekly feature! Every Monday we will put a new poll on the left side of this website. It will feature 5 songs that our writers (and you) thought was the song of the week. This week the writers came up with the 5 to choose [...]
Sheves Chaverim Available for Download!
You can now download the Sheves Chaverim CD before it’s even in the stores. Go to www.mostlymusic.com now to download the full album, plus PDF booklet.
Miami Yovo DVD Now Available for Pre-Order!
THIS IS THE ONE! A STAGE, DANCE AND LIGHTING PHENOMENON! Yerachmiel Begun brings us the DVD of the ALL-NEW MIAMI EXPERIENCE – MIAMI YAVOH. Coming off the very popular YAVOH album, this DVD is easily the BEST MIAMI DVD EVER, and possibly, the best concert DVD ever on the Jewish market. Shot in HD with [...]
Chabad Live Webcast of Mumbai Memorial
Exactly one year after their children perished in the Mumbai terror attacks, Rabbi Nachman and Freida Holtzberg of New York and Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg of Afula, Israel, will participate in a memorial ceremony at the Nariman House, the heavily-damaged structure that once housed the city’s Chabad-Lubavitch center. Taking place alongside memorial events elsewhere in the [...]
Yacov Chesed, “The Passage”: Album Review
Yacov Chesed, “The Passage”: album review Yaakov Chesed is Rising Above again, as their 2nd album is about to be released throughout the world. The band will be debuting the release at Yeshiva University’s Battle of the Bands this Thursday Night. Knowing people in high places has paid off, for I got my lil hands [...]
Shimon Kugel Album “Forever” Released
After a long wait Shimon Kugel has finally released his new album, “Forever”. All songs on the album are Shimon Kugel compositions and are sung by him .
The music on the album was arranged and conducted by Chaim Yitzchok Goldman. “Forever” features full symphonic orchestra accompaniment along with both adult and children choirs.
Avi Newmark’s Boys Group: Tryouts TONIGHT
Tryouts tonight for Avi Newmark’s latest project!!! If you have a son who sings and wants to be part of something really special, contact Avi ASAP 516-522-0090 or email avi@avinewmark.com
HASC 23: Avremel and Lipa!
HASC’s 23rd Annual “A Time For Music”, the longest running Jewish concert series, is planned for January 10th, 2009. This years concert will feature Avraham Fried and Lipa Schmeltzer. The show will be hosted by Nachum Segal, music by the Neginah Orchestras and conducted by Yisroel Lamm, for more information go to www.hascconcert.com and for [...]
Benny Friedman Sings in Lakewood
Melave Malka/CD release party at the Minyan-under the leadership of Harav Chaim Abadi Shlita-where the large crowd enjoyed pizza, nosh and musical entertainment by Dovid Stein, and Benny Friedman. Benny sang some of his songs from his newly released Album, titled Taamu. (Produced by Avi Newmark, Technical Production, PR and Design by Sruly Meyer). The [...]
Yochi Briskman Presents: Relax 2! With Shloime Daskal
Yochi Briksman is about to release the second Project Relax with Shloime Daskal. Look for a sampler and the CD and Download release later this week! Hear and download sampler below. click here to download. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Mumbai memorial concert by Moshe Hecht & Friends
Remember Mubai – A Musical Tribute by Moshe Hecht & Friends Tuesday November 24 – 7:30 @MLC
MBD Concert, Promo and Sale!
MBD is as hot as ever. Not only did he release one of the best CD’s of the year, but he’s headlining a major concert coming soon. MBD will star in “MBD Kulam Ahuvim Live” coming December 19th, 2009. The concert will also feature Aaron Razel, Yeedle, Shua Kessin and Avrumi Flam. Here is a [...]
“Soldiers”: Mumbai tribute by “the Sheichet”, vid & download
“Soldiers” a tribute to the Kedoshim of Mumbai HY”D Different people express their emotions better in different ways. While Kol Isha so beautifully expressed in words what many of us are thinking and feeling a short year after the horrible tragedy in Mumbai, I found it easier to express my thoughts through a song. I [...]
Chasoif: A Tribute to Mumbai
It’s hard to believe it has only been one year since the horrific massacre in Mumbai, India, an event that changed us all forever. It didn’t matter if you had ever walked into a Chabad house in your life or not, the Kedoshim who lost their lives belonged to all of us and the terrible [...]
Sheves Chaveirim Sampler
I was skimming through facebook and found that Ari Goldwag posted something on his blog Geulah Perspectives about Sheves Chaveirim. Lo and behold! It’s a sampler for the new album! Looks like one of the songs he has the kids singing is “Finally Here” a song he previously recorded with his vocals. The sampler sounds [...]
Ethnomusicology – the Americanization of Niggunim
This is the basic script of a lecture that was given recently at the University of Washington school of music, as part of a class in ethnomusicology. The Chabad shliach to the University delivered the lecture, all the while showing the audience clips of the music discussed. In Chassidic culture, music finds itself in a [...]
Benny Friedman – Taamu: A Dissection by Mendel “the Sheichet”
Here is both an in depth, technical review of Taamu, and also a great 30 minute audio interview conducted by Mendel. To download the interview click here. Listen here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Benny Friedman – Taamu: a dissection by Mendel “the Sheichet” I decided to alter my approach by not reading [...]
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