Tiferet Nigun - Joey Weisenberg and the Hadar Ensemble (2013)

Love this video? ❤️ Join our mailing list for free music, spiritual inspiration and upcoming events. 👉 https://www.joeyweisenberg.com/list Tiferet, in the structure of the Sefirot, represents the balance between the traits of Chesed (compassion/kindness) and Gevurah (strength/toughness). Originally recorded in 2013, this video was released from archives more than a decade later during Sefirat HaOmer — the 49 days between Pesach and Shavuot — specifically within the week of Tiferet (תפארת - balance / beauty / harmony). The Counting of the Omer is traditionally considered a period of mourning when some observe the custom to refrain from playing or listening to instrumental music. While the beginning of “Tiferet Nigun” incorporates voices and clapping only, instruments are used in the second half of this recording. Watch and listen accordingly! From the album Nigunim, Vol. III: Live in the Choir Loft from Rising Song Records on Bandcamp: https://joeyweisenberg.bandcamp.com/a... Joey Weisenberg: Lead Vocals, Hand Claps Mattisyahu Brown: Harmony Vocals, Hand Claps Deborah Sacks: Harmony Vocals, Hand Claps Eleonore Weill: Harmony Vocals, Hand Claps Yoshie Fruchter: Harmony Vocals, Hand Claps Sam Weisenberg: Percussion Jake Shulman-Ment: Violin All music composed and directed by Joey Weisenberg. Recorded Live in the Choir Loft at the Kane Street Synagogue on May 7, 2013. Engineered and Mixed by Don Godwin. Filmed/Edited by Josh Freed. A project of the Hadar’s Rising Song Institute, cultivating Jewish spiritual life through song: http://risingsing.org/ ~~~ This music is the result of an eight-month weekly residency in the “Choir Loft” at the Kane Street Synagogue in Brooklyn. More than 150 years ago, the space was designed for a choir to sing “from on high” down to the congregants. In 2013, a group of Kane Street congregants cleared out what seemed like a century’s worth of accumulated shul accoutrements and reclaimed the loft as a space for music—only this time, our band brought the audience up to the loft with us! The loft itself—with its beautiful acoustics, grand view, and the lovely group of supporters—became the creative soil in which the music could develop and flourish. Like the space, the music itself comes from eras past but is reclaimed for the present. Older styles of Jewish music—nigunim (wordless melodies), z’mirot (Shabbos table melodies), choral music, and traditional nusach (prayer chant)—organically melt into the spontaneous improvisation, liberated harmonies and indie soul music of our Brooklyn soundscape. Using my open-ended compositions as starting points, this incredibly sensitive group of musicians and singers improvised and invented arrangements on the fly. That open process left us vulnerable to making mistakes, but also left open the possibility of moments of unscripted surging beauty and power. The rumbling cars, chirping birds, cracking voices, audience shuffles, and other sounds of the real world added their unique flavor to this recording, which was recorded live and presented here with nothing added or taken away. We hope you enjoy it!