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Chabad Al Hazman
Yosef Gutman Levitt
Label: Soul Song Records
Released: 2019
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Tracks
Blessing of the Cohanim; Melody of Gathering; Melody of Mind; Melody of Shabbat I; Melody of Shabbat II; Melody of the Heart; Melody of Nobility; Azamer Bishvachin; Medley of Joy; Melody of Devotion; Melody 400.
Personnel
Yosef Gutman Levitt
bass, acoustic
Gilad Ronen
woodwinds
Tom Oren
pianoYagel Harush
kamancheh
Amos Hoffman
oudItamar Doari
percussionJoca Perpignan
percussionAdditional Personnel / Information
Yosef Gutman Levitt: acoustic bass guitar; Gilad Ronen: clarinet, flute, arrangement, orchestration; Tom Oren: piano, keyboards; Yagel Harush: kamancheh, ney, oud; Amos Hoffman: oud; Eyal Heller: Spanish guitar; Yogev Cohen: acoustic guitar; Yanush Horowitz: accordion; Itamar Doari: percussion; Mayan Doari: percussion; Joca Perpignan: percussion.
Album Description
Chabad Al Hazman (literally “Chabad on the time”) was Yosef Gutman Levitt’s first album: Chabad nigunim, the wordless Hasidic melodies, played on his five-string acoustic bass guitar with an ensemble of clarinet and flute, piano and Rhodes, oud, kamancheh, ney, accordion, guitars and percussion.
Gilad Ronen, Levitt’s roommate at Berklee some twenty-five years earlier, arranged and produced the album, and the two chose the nigunim together. It was recorded live over three days at Pluto Studios in Tel Aviv.
“When playing Hasidic nigunim,” Levitt says, “God is above the music, and the music is there in order to make a space through which people connect.”
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