Results for "Yosef-Gutman Levitt"

Tsuf Harim

By Yosef Gutman Levitt

Label: Soul Song Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Asader Leseudata; Nigun Shabbat; Sar Hamemunim; Atem Shalom; Adon Haselichot; Daar Oved; Ka Echsof; Lechatchila Ariber; Nigun Lubavitch; Teshuva; Nigun Purim; Nigun Gaaguim; Me-eyn Olam Haba; Nigun Simcha; The Warriors.

Melodies of Light

By Yosef Gutman Levitt

Label: Soul Song Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Movement One Opening; Movement Two Hamotzi; Movement Three The Dance; Movement Four Hananya; Movement Five Jonah's Garden; Movement Six Before the Rain; Movement Seven Timbuktu; Movement Eight The Way Home; Movement Nine Sunshine; Movement Ten Out of the Walls; Movement Eleven For Karim; Movement Twelve Lament; Movement Thirteen Let Me Draw Water; Movement Fourteen Bonus Track; Movement Fifteen Bonus Track; Movement Sixteen Bonus Track; Movement Seventeen Bonus Track.

Yosef Gutman Levitt

Born: January 29, 1979

ABOUT

Yosef Gutman Levitt is a bassist and composer in Jerusalem whose music grows out of the nigun, the wordless Hasidic melody, and out of a lifelong conversation with jazz. His main instrument is a five-string acoustic bass guitar built by Harvey Citron, a high, singing instrument he plays as a melodic voice as much as a bass; he also plays upright bass. Since returning to music in 2018 he has released more than fifteen albums and EPs on his own label, Soul Song Records, with musicians including guitarist Lionel Loueke, pianist Yonathan Avishai (ECM), Peter Broderick, guitarists Gilad Hekselman and Tal Yahalom, pianist Omri Mor, cellist Yoed Nir and woodwind player and producer Gilad Ronen.

Omri Mor / Yosef-Gutman Levitt: Melodies of Light

by Mike Jurkovic
October 1, 2023

It is quite rare in a culture and society driven by autocrats, hits, likes, blogs and podcasts, that recordings as ethereal, yet born of the ageless earth, as Melodies of Light come around to release us from the daily ugly. Spontaneous music of this hypnotic, mysterious beauty and elusive grace give us pause to ...

Yosef-Gutman Levitt & Tal Yahalom: Tsuf Harim

by Gareth Thompson
March 17, 2023

In early Hasidic writings, magical and supernatural concepts rooted in the mystic were common. Such notions held that human acts, including musical activity, could affect the godhead and thus the whole world. By the late eighteenth century, these Jewish religious teachings saw music as something inward, a form of contemplation with the soul. Yosef-Gutman ...