Yotzeret Sheydim - The Return (​ה​ש​י​ב​ה​) [2023]

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noise, piano, experimental jazz, Judaism, memories

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0:00 Moses As Warrior-Sculptor, Carving The Cliff Face (Strength To Strength)
6:00 Seven By Seventy-Two Angels Parading Across The Tip Of My Knife
11:48 Calling Hidden Signs As Poems Reversed
16:59 Preparing For The Ceremony But My Hair Is A Mess And My Dress Is Torn
21:41 Telling Stories Has Never Been As Easy As This (Eyes And Lips Bound By The Freedom Of The Word)
30:00 One For The Lost Shepherds, Whose Flock Doesn't Yet Exist
32:46 Stardust And Long Forgotten Loved Ones
36:05 The Proud Crowns On The Heads Of Drunkards, Those Wilted Flowers Are His Glorious Beauty
44:29 Finding Old Things In A Box, Causing Psychic Damage To The Self
53:20 Cutting Shards Of Truth Off For Later Use
57:00 Multiple Trips To The Dumpster To Clear My Head

This album is about returning to old things, sorting through them, and then tossing them. This album is about a trip to see my childhood home. I played piano for two days and my parents cleared out boxes of old things from the basement and around the house. The book pages used to make the album cover and tape packaging are from two books that were highly influential on me as a young teen: a Reconstructionist Hebrew Siddur (prayer book), and a collection of Phillip K Dick short stories. Growing closer to G-d, while learning that knowledge can lead to paranoia. Simulation or not, we grow and change and become one with the divine regardless. Returning always to the center, returning always to where we started.

released September 15, 2023

Recorded 3/25/23 and 3/26/23 at my parent's house near the Potomac River.

Instruments used:
Voice
Steinway & Sons Medium Grand Piano made 1927
The Prayer Box, electro-acoustic modular synth case (contact microphone, Doepfer A119, ES Disting Mk4, and a Clouds clone)
Squier SP-10 amplifier
Zoom H1N recorder

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