Radical Jewish Culture
Jewlia Eisenberg :  Trilectic
Cat. # 7155
Released Nov 2001
cd time - 44:15
US Price $16.00
 
One of the most important releases this year, Jewlia Eisenberg’s radical setting of texts by Walter Benjamin, Asja Lacis and Gershom Sholem point to a whole new style of acappela vocal music. Drawing upon traditions from doo-wop to Meredith Monk, Eskimo throat singing, to Hebrew cantilation and more, Trilectic is as charming as it is challenging. A brilliant vocalist and bandleader (Charming Hostess) Jewlia has studied a wide variety of vocal techniques, including the secular vocal music of women in the Jewish Falasha tribe in Ethiopia. An astonishing solo debut by this intensely creative musical thinker.
 
 
Personnel:
Wes Anderson: Voice, Drums
Jewlia Eisenberg: Voice, Bass
Nils Frykdahl: Voice
Frank Grau: Vocal Percussion
Carla Kihlstedt: Voice, Shaker
Dawn McCarthy: Voice
Freddy Price: Whistle
Dan Rathbun: Voice
Nina Rolle: Voice