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Идишская, греческая и русская песни на одну мелодию, с последующим разоблачением.Музыкант и этномузыколог Илья Сайтанов ставит многоточие в рассказе о бесконечных превращениях мелодии украинского танца "Карапет", которую все, включая украинцев, считают чужой. Скачать эпизодПодробное описаниеПредыдущие эпизоды серии: 1, 2Yiddish, Greek and Russian song with the same melody, with an ensuing disclosure. Musician and ethnomusicologist Ilya Saitanov c...

Как украинский танец связан с желанием удержать Финляндию в составе России? Музыкант и этномузыколог Илья Сайтанов продолжает разбираться в бесконечных превращениях мелодии украинского танца "Карапет", которую все, включая украинцев, считают чужой. Скачать эпизодПодробное описаниеПредыдущий эпизод серии How is the Ukranian dance connected to a desire to keep Finland within the Russian Empire? Musician and ethnomusicologist Ilya Saitanov further e...

Музыкант и этномузыколог Илья Сайтанов разбирается в бесконечных превращениях мелодии украинского танца "Карапет", которую все, включая украинцев, считают чужой.Скачать эпизодПодробное описаниеMusician and ethnomusicologist Ilya Saitanov explores the endless transmutations of the melody of the Ukrainian dance Karapiet, which everybody, including the Ukrainians, consider "alien".Download the episodeDetailed description

Музыковед Михаэль Лукин и музыкант Илья Сайтанов "медленно читают" мистические напевы без слов из пограничной Галиции, обращаясь к этнографическим записям и к недавнему концерту группы "Лакоча". Скачать эпизодeshkolot.online/podcast/podcast-41 Musicologist Michael Lukin and musician Ilya Saitanov offer a "slow reading" of mystical songs without words from Galician borderland, based on ethnographic recordings and excerpts from a recent concert by ...

Premiere of Alex Nadzharov's "Hommage to Mahler" (strings, piano, live electronics) and the composer's talk with musical critic Alexey Munipov. Performed by Contemporary Music Company:Pavel Dombrovsky, pianoIlya Rubinstein, celloSergey Poltavskij, violaFedor Beznosikov, violinAlex Nadzharov, live electronicsDownload the episodeDownload the audio file with Nadzharov's "Hommage to Mahler"Detailed descriptionПремьера сочинения Алексея Наджарова "Пос...

Ilya Saitanov of Lakocha shares his journey following the most "vagrant" Mediterranean melody – from Istanbul to New York, from Algiers to Baghdad, from Alexandria to Moscow.Download the episodeDetailed descriptionИлья Сайтанов из группы «Лакоча» отправляется в путешествие по следам самой знаменитой «бродячей мелодии» Средиземноморья – от Стамбула до Нью-Йорка, от Алжира до Багдада, и от Александрии до Москвы.Скачать весь эпизодПодробное описание...

Playlist of songs from XX century Yiddish and Hebrew theater shows, from New York to Moscow, annotated by Ilya Saitanov.Download the playlistDetailed annotation00:07 Lekoved dem Khayligen Shabbos02:31 Mipney Ma03:47 Zastolnaya Pesnya06:27 Yisrolik09:28 Oy Gewald A Ganef12:11 Freitag auf der nacht15:16 Lechaim briderПлейлист из песен идишского и ивритского театра XX века, от Нью-Йорка до Москвы, с комментариями Ильи Сайтанова.Скачать весь плейлист...

How a synagogue cantor (chazzan) can avoid turning prayer into operetta? In the latest episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast Gregory Yakerson, the cantor of St. Petersburg Synagogue, reveals the secrets of his art.Download the episodeDetailed descriptionКак избежать превращения молитвы в оперетту? В новом выпуске подкаста Radio Eshkolot кантор (певчий) Санкт-Петербургской синагоги Григорий Якерсон раскрывает секреты мастерства.Скачать эпизодПодробное...

Why do Hasidic Jews believe that you can hear Polish and Ukrainian peasants inadvertently speaking Hebrew and Yiddish? In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musicologist Hava Shmulevich and musician Ilya Saitanov continue the discussion of "macaronic" language of Jewish songs (see the first episode here).Download the episodeDetailed descriptionПочему хасидам постоянно чудится, что польские или украинские крестьяне невольно говорят на еврей...

In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musical critic Alexey Munipov introduces "Bukovina songs" by contemporary composer Leonid Desyatnikov, performed by pianist Pavel Dombrovsky. Inspired by Bukovina – a very unusual "contact zone" between Ukrainian, German, Jewish, Polish and Romanian cultures – Desyatnikov's preludes reflect his childhood fascination with radio edits of Ukrainian folk songs, transfigured by echoes of Stravinsky, Chopin,...

Why do Hasidic Jews (whose native language was Yiddish, and sacred language of prayer and learning – Hebrew) chose to sing some of their most sacred songs in a Slavic dialect? In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast, musicologist Hava Shmulevich and musician Ilya Saitanov discuss the "macaronism" (mixture of languages) in traditional Jewish songs.Download the episodeDetailed descriptionЗачем хасидам (родным языком которых был идиш, а языком ...

In the latest episode of Radio Eshkolot podacst the Berlin-based contemporary composer Boris Filanovsky conducts a "creative listening" workshop on the slow part of Beethoven's "Ghost Trio" (op.70), performed specially for the workshop by Contemporary Music Company in Peredelkino Creative Space (Moscow).Download the episodeDetailed descriptionВ новом выпуске подкаста Radio Eshkolot современный композитор Борис Филановский (Берлин) проводит практи...

In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musician Ilya Saitanov ("Lakocha") tries to unravel a bundle of questions and enigmas around the musical permutations of Itzik Manger's poem "Du vest geyn mitn barg".Download the episodeDetailed descriptionВ новом выпуске подкаста Radio Eshkolot музыкант Илья Сайтанов («Лакоча») пытается распутать клубок вопросов и загадок вокруг песни на слова Ицика Мангера "Du vest geyn mitn barg".Скачать эпизодПодро...

Recently New York-based musician Zisl Slepovitch delivered a series of talks on Jewish music of Belarus (bit.ly/2HQA3ms) and together with Ilya Saitanov curated a thematic playlist of rare sound recordings (bit.ly/33wlZpT). In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast ZIsl Slepovitch gives you the answer to the essential question – How one can discern by the sound of Jewish music that it originates from Belarus?Download the episode: http://files....

This playlist curated by the New York-based musician and musicologist Zisl Slepovitch and Ilya Saitanov (Lakocha) is a prelude to the next episode, which will be devoted to the Jewish music of Belarus. Rare recordings of secular and religious music were mostly made in the field by ethnomusicologists Zinoviy (Susman) Kiselgof, Sofia Magid, Yakov Mazor, Inna Nazina, Dmitry Zisl Slepovitch and Nina Stepanskaya.Download the episodeDetailed descriptio...

Meet KGB archives, exclusive interviews and rare recordings in the second and final part of Mitia Khramtsov's and Ilya Saitanov's story of the Soviet Jewish restaurant musicians ("labukhs). You are advised to start listening from the first part, accompanied by the annotated playlist.Download the episodeDetailed descriptionАрхивы КГБ, эксклюзивные интервью и редкие записи – во второй части подкаста Radio Eshkolot, посвященного советским ресторанны...

As a sequel to their podcast on Jewish music in the Soviet restaurant musicians Mitia Kharmtsov (Dobranoch) and Ilya Saitanov (Lakocha) offer a curated and annotated playlist of top-10 archival recordings of Jewish "labukh" musicians.Download the episodeDetailed descriptionВ продолжение своего подкаста о еврейской музыке в советском ресторане музыканты Митя Храмцов ("Добраночь") и Илья Сайтанов ("Лакоча") представляют комментированный плейлист из...

Recently opened KGB archives in Ukraine give us a rare glimpse into the Jewish music of the Soviet restaurants – a scene relentlessly thriving in 1970s and 1980s despite persecution. In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musicians Mitia Khramtsov (Dobranoch) and Ilya Saitanov (Lakocha) take us on a journey based on interviews with old labukhs (restaurant musicians) and rare recordings.Download the episodeDetailed descriptionНедавно открыты...

Why do Mountain Jews of the Caucasus pronounce Hebrew a lot like Yemenites? How does music demonstrate that Mountain Jews came to the Caucasus from Iran? Why do Mountain Jews and Muslims speak the same juhuri language but don't share even one folk song? How does music from Dagestan influence the soundscape of modern Israel? In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast Israeli ethnomusicologist, composer and musician Piris Eliyahu talks about musi...

Why did the keeper of Berditchev synagogue polish the magnificent chandelier on Sabbath eve and hang himself on it? In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast the actress Julia Aug tells a Hasidic story about withering fire, freezing water, generous princes, wise centenarians, and dangerous ideas. Commentary: Uri Gershovich. Soundtrack: Alex Nadzharov, Grigory Sandomirsky, Maria Logofet.Download the episodeDetailed descriptionПочему сторож сина...

How does Kazachok transform Hungarian string instruments into percussion? Where does it arrive in the course of its Odyssey around Greek islands? What did American klezmer musicians do to it? In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast, Ilya Saitanov continues his adventurous ethnomusicological journey (for the beginning, see the first part).Download the episodeDetailed descriptionКак казачок превращает венгерские струнные инструменты в ударные?...

Is Kazachok a melody or a dance? Is Ukranian gopak the same as Ukranian kozachok? And what about Jewish hopke and kozatske? When do Lubavitch hasidim dance Kazachok? All these questions are subjects of endless debate. In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast, musician and folklorist Ilya Saitanov in dialogue with his colleague from Ukraine Ilya Fetisov leads us into the thicket of ethnomusicology with a lot of rare musical tracks.Download the...

How did the blind Rabbi from Aleppo turn a popular Egyptian song into a Messianic hymn? How did the melody of a blind Iraqi Sufi get to be played by an Israeli musician as an opening for Radiohead? Why do synagogues in Jerusalem recite Kaddish to the melody of an Umm Kulthum song? The new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast is about a quaint relationship of Judaism with Arab music.Detailed descriptionDownload the episode00:10 Lamma bada || Lamma ha...

"Sleep, sleep, my girl, sleep, sleep, my dear. Daddy will bring you a birdie, so that your eye won't hurt". Why is father always away? How does the bird cure the eye? Why is the singer lisping? What do Yakut songs have in common with a Jewish lullaby? The "slow listening" of a simple Yiddish lullaby with a musician Ilya Saitanov and a philologist Alexandra Polyan leads you into the magic thicket of ethnography, linguistics and musicology.Download...

One night in November 2019 groups of flâneurs went walking in Berlin. Their impressions were captured in flows of images, audio notes, videos, stories, and a musical piece. Drifters created situations where the once-familiar city became defamiliarized – "Berlin is never Berlin". Composer Alex Nadzharov montaged the Drift sounds into the psychogeographic musical piece "Berlin Drift". This is a sound-route through the city. In the new episode of Ra...

"You should drink a little vodka, but like a Mensch, not like a Golem" – this line from a Yiddish song incorporates the whole philosophy of Jewish drinking. In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast musician and folklorist Ilya Saitanov and linguist Alexandra Polyan present the adventurous story of the lyrics and music of the song Az me nemt a bisele bronfn, with ethnographic materials and live performance by Lakocha.Download the episodeDetail...

"Slow reading is the opposite of close reading and yes I do think that Jewish reading practices can teach us a lot about this kind of reading and that reading is always a call, it's always a call to respond. Only after silent reading is invented does reading become a kind of practice literally and figuratively of masturbation". In the latest episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast enfant terrible of Jewish Studies Daniel Boyarin (UC Berkeley) talks abo...

Did you know that "Oyfn pripetchek brent a fayerel" (“On the hearth, a fire burns”) is actually a metaphor for female desire? The story told by Israeli musicologist Michael Lukin begins with rabbinic condemnation of Jewish women singing "whore songs" in early modern Europe and continues with one of such songs becoming a source for the most famous Yiddish didactic "folk" song of our times. In the new episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast Michael Lukin...

Why Jewish "folk songs" were "invented" in the 19th century? Does it mean the Jews did not sing outside the synagogue before? And if they did, then when and where? How do raisins and almonds appear in the most popular Ashkenazi lullaby? How can a roof tile turn into a goat? Israeli musicologist Michael Lukin talks about the famous "Rozhinkes mit mandlen" – and through it about the history, poetics and music of Jewish folk songs – in the new episo...

Ancient Hebrew devotional songs – tehillim (ψαλμοί, Psalms)– have reached us only as written texts. However, for thousands of years they have endlessly inspired composers to recreate the vanished music. This episode of Radio Eshkolot podcast presents daring attempts at writing a "soundtrack" to Psalms – from French Renaissance to New York avant-garde of the 21st century.Download the entire episodeDetailed descriptionHenry Purcell. Out of the Deep...

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 succe...

"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...

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...

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) a...

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 t...

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 episodeDetailed descriptionИдишский скоморох, бродячий филолог...

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 Mo...

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 se...

"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) playe...

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 episodeDetailed descriptionВ любом тексте сокрыт звук - дыхание, ритм, интонация. Звучащая поэзия, проза и философия становятся телесным переживанием. В пятом выпуске подкаста Radio Eshko...

"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 i...

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...

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...

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.mp3Detailed description.Главная "фишка" еврейская культуры – ее глобальность и многоязычие. В первом выпуске музыкального подкаста Radio E...