TT Matchup? :: Jacky Mekaiton/Avi Piamenta

Two singers who started secular and became frum, if un-orthodox, and other parallels. Happy Tuesday!

As previously noted, Avi went and did this all by hisself. No backsies!

TTT :: We Want Moshiach Now • Piamenta

Of course it hurts to put the title and performer up here. But alas, terrible is no good.

Working from memory, this recording was a low-budget non-Yosi production by Avi, some synthesizers, some flute interludes and some rock-and-roll samples. No good. Especially for Piamenta.

Yehuda • Piamenta

From the very heavenly Strings of My Heart recording (1998)—8 tracks of surreal guitar riffing backed by heavy bass and bass drumming and complemented with flute. (Tracks are named after their wives and kids, I believe.)

Choni and I would spend hours covering this song—he on the vocal bass and guitar; me on the whistle flute and table drum, climaxing in the drum gem at 2:27.

A Gut Yohr • Piamentas (1991)

Morrocco meets Mezhibuzh. As the cover says, "A Piamenta Production". Lchaim! Tantz, tantz, tantz!

Monday Matchup :: Kavei El Hashem • Journeys/MBD

Chazak!

Journeys III featuring The Piamentas:



MBD, Maaminim:

Ezkera Niginati Balayla • Piamenta

Tehillim, 77 for the 15th day of the month. From the wonderfully named "Big Time!" recording.

Shlichei Mitzva • Piamenta

Lech lecha, go. Shlichei Mitzva einan nizakin.

Ben Porat Yosef - Piamenta

Because yesterday's Tanya began with "כי על מוצא פי ה' יחי' האדם"; because I couldn't find the very fun Piamenta song with those words; because I found this interesting recording that I've not before heard; because it turns out to have a connection to today's Shacharis; and because though I don't especially love the song, the introduction and ending are especially sweet; I present: Ben Porat Yosef, by Piamenta.

Ashrei Ha'ish - Music of Miri ben Ari (feat. Piamenta)

This is how Sefer Tehillim begins: Ashrei ha'ish asher lo halach b'atzas risha'im, uviderech chata'im lo omad, uvimoshav leitzim lo yashav. Perhaps, colloquially: Lucky is the perceptive listener who would not mistake peer pressure for sound advice. Lucky is the person who does not get lost in the mob of popular opinion. Lucky is the one who can leave a party when there are only poopers left. And good luck to the rest of us. :)



Obviously, the chief excitement here is the Miri ben Fantastic violin! She recorded a Jewish music collection some years ago featuring all the usual suspects plus Gershon Veroba in a parody called The Rabbi Went Down to Georgia. Miri is really fantastic on that track :)

Striking to me as well is the theme of repentance that runs through Rosh Chodesh. Mussaf, tehillim, se'ir izim echod lichatas, and so forth.

As it is written in the Lessons in Tanya: Ritualistic adherence to the supernal endorphines that counterinterrelate amongst the qualitative immersiveness of a ritualarium, can and must exclusively extricate their sins through chibut hakever.

Shir Lama'alot - Piamenta

Piamenta/Stan Getz - 1977 - Mitzvah

HT: YA