Ten most viewed musical videos on Eshkolot Youtube channel have one apparent common feature – they provoke violent battles over cultural appropriation in the commentaries. "Jewish Csárdás" – How dare you? This is our Hungarian music! "Jewish Maqam" – Jewish?? Are you kidding me? This is pure Azeri mugam! "Polka żydówka" – What a chutzpah! It seems that the intrinsically contact/border/hybrid nature of Jewish music provides it with extremely successful marketing strategy :) Download the entire ep...
Dec 26, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 14
"Niggun, a Hasidic song without words, is like a very powerful virus. Because the moment you hear it – you have to catch it. If you have to sit there thinking about it, it doesn't work. The niggunim work by having a structure, which you can learn very quickly, if you just try to sing it" – explains American musician and philosopher Alan Bern on Radio Eshkolot. This episode of the podcast offers a selection of the most viral niggunim from Eshkolot workshops. Download the entire episode Detailed d...
Dec 09, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 13
A hundred years ago Weimar Berlin became a global migration hub, a multilingual marketplace, exploding with artistic, technological and social innovation amidst economic crises and decadent nightlife. The latter was dominated by cabaret and dance-hall music created by Jewish composers Mischa Spoliansky and Friedrich Hollaender. In the new podcast Radio Eshkolot presents an original interpretation of 1920s standards by an improvisational band Goat's Notes. Download the entire episode Detailed des...
Nov 25, 2019•23 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Fortuna Records is a Tel Aviv label famous for its discovery and re-issue of rare and forgotten recordings of Middle Eastern folk and pop music of the 1970s – from Egyptian classics to Palestinian folk, from Greek-Israeli rock to Turkish funk. Fortuna Records DJs unveil hidden soundscapes on the radio and at wild thematic parties in clubs of Tel Aviv, Berlin, London, Amsterdam and Paris. Founders and DJs of Fortuna Records Ariel Tagar (Kalbata) and Maor Anava (DJ Hectic) talk on Radio Eshkolot a...
Oct 29, 2019•59 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Haim Louk was born in Casablanca (the same year as the movie) and for many decades he has performed songs embodying the wandering of Jewish music from Gibraltar to Bosporus. His tunes reflect the rich diversity of musical traditions of Muslim Mediterranean, merging Berber, Hebrew and Arabic influences. Rabbi Haim Louk sings mystical texts from Andalusia before the King of Morocco, attracts crowds to his concerts in Israel, and performs all over the world, from Spain to US. His band consists of v...
Oct 15, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Yiddish skomorokh-trickster, vagrant philologist, Grammy nominee Psoy Korolenko is a unique example of living Jewish counter-culture – culture of shameless appropriation, burlesque multilingualism, carnivalesque obscenity and translation against all rules. Radio Eshkolot has collected its best recordings of Psoy's live performances – from rap-niggun to punk-chanson. Download the entire episode Detailed description Идишский скоморох, бродячий филолог, номинант премии Грэмми, Псой Галактионович Ко...
Sep 29, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Igor Krutogolov's Toy Orchestra is an Israeli band which uses children toys instead of "real" instruments. Its music and musicians are highly professional, so that plastic cow-mooing piano, toddler's drums, disposable clarinets and rubber pigs can magically play sophisticated folk, rock and heavy metal compositions. In the fall podcast Radio Eshkolot remembers how the crazy Israelis chased out the rain clouds at the summer Eshkolot open air in Moscow's Bauman Park. Download the entire episode De...
Sep 15, 2019•23 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Alcoholism is the distinction and privilege of being human (Leon Trotsky) In spite of a common misconception that "Jews don't drink as much as others", often combined with an anti-Semitic libel that "Jews profit from inebriating the common folk", Jewish spirituality is deeply associated with distilled spirits. There is no better demonstration of this than the ubiquity of Yiddish drinking songs, both sacred and profane. Radio Eshkolot presents a selection of songs about vodka ( yash , mashke ) pe...
Sep 01, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 7
"Maqams are like windows into other dimensions. You have twelve windows that take you to twelve absolutely different worlds. The secret teaching of Maqam was not shared with just anyone. It was to be received either from one's father or a teacher. And to be accepted by the teacher, one had to have a personal relationship with him, like a guru or master. The secret was kept like Kabbalah". Now world famous Israeli kamancheh (oriental violin) player Mark Eliyahu received the secrets of his music f...
Jun 10, 2019•33 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Each text conceals sound - breath, rhythm, intonation. Sounding poetry, prose and philosophy become an embodied experience. In the fifth episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musicians present live "soundtracks" to medieval and contemporary texts. Download the entire episode Detailed description В любом тексте сокрыт звук - дыхание, ритм, интонация. Звучащая поэзия, проза и философия становятся телесным переживанием. В пятом выпуске подкаста Radio Eshkolot музыканты представляют живой "саундтрек" к ...
May 26, 2019•38 min•Season 1Ep. 5
"Sometimes, when people are happy and dance, they grab someone standing outside the circle who is depressed and gloomy. Against his will they bring him into the circle of dancers; against his will, they force him to be happy along with them. It is the same with happiness. When a person is happy, gloom and suffering stand aside. Yet greater still is to gather courage to actually pursue gloom, and to introduce it into the joy, such that the gloom itself turns into joy." (Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav)...
May 13, 2019•17 min•Season 1Ep. 4
During the revelation at Mount Sinai all those present experienced a strange sensation of "seeing the sounds" (ro'im et ha-kolot, Exodus 20:14). For many contemporary composers creating a soundscape or soundspace, which should be navigated with eyes wide shut, became a foundation of their musical philosophy. Please be warned that the third episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast with music by Chaya Czernowin, Alexey Sysoev, Vladimir Gorlinsky and Daria Zvezdina has a strong hypnotic power and is prohi...
Apr 22, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Some Orthodox Jews do not listen to women's singing because of the Talmudic dictum "kol be-isha erva" (Kiddushin 70a), usually translated as "A woman's voice is nakedness". Many Eshkolot musical events included astonishingly beautiful women's voices, because we believe this saying to mean "A woman's voice is exposure" and revelation of her innermost being. In this second episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast we offer you a selection of women's voices performing live at Eshkolot concerts of the last ...
Apr 08, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 2
The main reason why Jewish culture is so cool is its global and multilingual character. The first episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast includes songs in 14(!) languages performed live for Eshkolot Project in Moscow and Jerusalem for the last 10 years. Download the entire episode: http://files.eshkolot.ru/mixtape1.mp3 Detailed description . Главная "фишка" еврейская культуры – ее глобальность и многоязычие. В первом выпуске музыкального подкаста Radio Eshkolot – песни на 14 (!) языках, прозвучавшие ...
Mar 19, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 1
