SHOFAR
Avant-Garde Jazz / World Fusion • Poland
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In Jewish culture, shofar has multiple meanings, each equally important. What does the new Shofar album bring into the equation?
A shofar is an instrument made out of a horn of any animal except a cow. Ashkenazi Jews usually use ram horns, while Sephardi Jews tend to utilize antelope. Ideally, a horn used for making a shofar isn’t straight – the more bent and deformed it is, the more interesting the sounds it makes. The shofar resounds at every Rosh Hashanah – the Jewish New Year – when it could be heard during the Mount Sinai revelation, while Prophet Isaiah in his divination associated the ram horn instrument with the resurrection of the dead. What does Shofar think of the above?
The concept behind Shofar is to carry on the Jewish musical traditions that are still alive for us, while also searching for a common denominator shared by Hasidic music and free
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Avant-Garde Jazz
2007
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