Shabbat in The Kitchen, by The Kitchen

Shabbat in The Kitchen

by The Kitchen

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1.	Baruch She'amar 03:37	info
2.	Hodu 04:55	info
3.	Modah Ani Mawal 01:37	info
4.	Modah Ani 02:58	info
5.	Mi Chamocha 03:21	info
6.	Lecha Dodi 05:26	info
7.	Romemu 05:16	info
8.	Mizmor L'David 04:31	info
9.	Yedid Nefesh 03:47	info

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It’s 6:10pm on Friday and it’s been a long week.
As you walk up the echoey stairwell of the Friends School, or out to the Etrog grove at JCHS, or into the Firehouse on Frederick, the first sounds of Shabbat unfurl in a nigun. You remember where you are and why you’re here. The nigun and the punims (faces) of dear friends and strangers welcome you, invite you to put down your load and lift your voice.

At The Kitchen, we sit in the round, so we can listen to each other’s voices and to silence, to soften the edges of the week, to make a shape without end. We gather our prayers, linking them together

The music on this album lives in Shabbat. Like The Kitchen itself, it cannot be contained within a particular building, and its roots run deep.

The melodies emerge from Jewish communities around the world, some written by contemporaries, some quite old; all reflect our oral tradition in which melodies expand and metamorphose along with the communities and generations who sing them.

It’s 6:10pm. A Shabbat nigun begins. You are invited to open your ears, your heart, and to lift your voice.

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released June 15, 2022

Musical Direction by Jessica Kate Meyer
Produced by Jacob Blumberg

Recorded at Tiny Telephone, The Firehouse, Zahavah and Jeff’s, and Bunker Studios
Recording Engineer: Danielle Gold
Mixing and Mastering: Jacob Blumberg

Kitchen Davening Team:
Jessica Kate Meyer, lead vocals, violin on track 1, 9
Aaron Danzig, vocals, oud on track 1
R Noa Kushner, vocals
David Rodwin, vocals
Molly Seltzer, vocals
Jessica Austin, vocals
Jacob Samuels, vocals
Laura Burkhauser, vocals on tracks 8, 10

Ensemble:
Oren Neiman, acoustic guitar, mandolin, electric guitar
Sean Tergis, drums and percussion
Jacob Blumberg, vibraphone, electric guitar, mandolin
Stu Brotman, bass
Rachel Valfer Sills, lead vocals on track 6. oud on tracks 2-4, 6
Eliyahu Sills, bansuri on track 2 and ney on tracks 3-4, 6
Michael Winograd, clarinet on tracks 5, 8-9
Pete Rushefsky, tsimbl on 4, 8
Gary Haggerdy, oud on 5, 7-9

Thank you to Anne Germanacos for your artistic inspiration, consultation, and the Firehouse, to John Vanderslice and Tiny Telephone, to Zahavah Levine, Jeff Meyer, and Mo Johnson for a guerrilla recording session. Thank you to Sarah Chandler and Shamir Collective for bringing the album out into the world; to Eric Reis for early encouragement. Thank you to the most wonderful davening team for the hours, love and soul. To Sam Reider for support and encouragement and musical wisdom. To Joni Blinderman and Harlene Appleman and The Covenant Foundation for making it possible. Thank you to Rabbi Noa Kushner for faith in this musical vision.

This album is inspired by and dedicated to all of the members of The Kitchen, whose (unmuted) voices over the past 2 year have kept prayer alive.

It was made possible by a generous grant from The Covenant Foundation.

-Jessica Kate Meyer and Jacob Blumberg

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