Berlinski / Brubaker / Hauman / Shammash / Schwarz - Milken Arch American Jewish Music: Avodat - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

LONE BELLOW / WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE - With their upcoming sixth studio album, InchWhat A Time To Be AliveInch, The Lone Bellow embarks on a bold new chapter while honoring the deep bonds that have defined their journey. Written collaboratively for the first time with their full touring band-founding members Zach Williams, Brian Elmquist, and Kanene Pipkin joined by drummer Julian Dorio and multi-instrumentalist Tyler Geertsma-the album channels the raw, ecstatic energy of the band's live show into a dynamic collection of songs that pulse with warmth, honesty, and human connection. Recorded live in Muscle Shoals, AL, after a writing retreat in a converted Kentucky firehouse, the album is both a celebration and a reckoning of friendship, loss, love, and resilience. From the gritty, Stones-tinged opener InchAfter The RainInch to the soul-stirring closer InchWhat A Time To Be Alive,Inch the record captures the joy and vulnerability that have long defined The Lone Bellow's sound-rich harmonies, heartfelt lyrics, and genre-blurring arrangements steeped in folk, rock, and gospel. The album's creation was marked by setbacks, including the theft of early recordings, but the outpouring of support from their fanbase reaffirmed what the band has always known their music is a shared experience. That spirit echoes throughout the album, whether in anthems like InchCommon FolkInch and InchI'm Here For You,Inch or in intimate reflections like InchYou Were LeavingInch and InchNight Goes Black.Inch Since their acclaimed 2013 debut, The Lone Bellow has appeared on The Tonight Show, Austin City Limits, and The Late Show, topped Americana charts, and headlined storied venues from Carnegie Hall to the Ryman Auditorium. But with their next album, they reaffirm their commitment not just to making music, but to building community-on stage, in song, and around the table.

Jewish Voices in the New World offers a rare and fascinating collection of synagogue melodies and biblical chants as they were sung in the early American Colonial period, throughout the Revolutionary War, and up through the early years of the new republic.

These WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS will appeal to all lovers of orchestral tone poems in the Romantic and modernist traditions. Avshalomov' delightful miniatures shimmer with colors akin to Rimsky-Korsakov and Far Eastern music.