[HANASHIR:14764] Beth Hamon's music online; plus...Jewish reggae(?)

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New on hotshabbat.com... *three full tracks* from Beth Hamon's new CD, 
"city of love." These will only be posted for the next few months so 
enjoy them while ye may. Here are the links:

City of Love  http://www.hotshabbat.com/BHamon-CityOfLove.ram
Hashkiveynu   http://www.hotshabbat.com/BHamon-Hashkiveynu.ram
May God Bless http://www.hotshabbat.com/BHamon-MayGodBless.ram
 -sheet music http://www.hotshabbat.com/BHamon-MayGodBless.pdf

On another subject...Flipping through radio stations today I came across a
reggae song with raunchy lyrics but a hypnotic beat and melody. It's
called "Shake that thing," recorded by Sean Paul who sounds
Jamaican. If you ignore the lyrics-- which I can barely make out anyway--
it sounds extremely Jewish and would make a powerful and prayerful
syncopated chant melody. 

If you can stop laughing long enough to consider it, the beat would work
great with the lyrics of Adon Olam, which goes with just about any song
anyway. The first part could be adapted like this: 

ADON OLAM asher malach 
ADON OLAM b'terem kol
ADON OLAM y'tzir nivra.
 (Michamocha Adonai?)
Adon olam asher malach,
B'terem kol y'tzir nivra.
L'et na'asah v'cheftzo kol,
azai melech sh'mo nikra.
V'acharey kichlot hakol,
l'vado yimloch nora.
V'hu haya, v'hu hoveh,
v'hu yih'yeh b'tifara.
...etc....

You could select different melodic variations from the verses of "Shake
that thing" as you like to match the number of lines in Adon Olam. 

Anyone at camp want to give it a try??? Or do you have other ideas for 
Jewish lyrics for this tune, in Hebrew or English? 

If you think that's funny, here's a website listing dozens more tunes 
that also fit the lyrics of Adon Olam:

http://www.rahul.net/figmo/Olamni/

-Robin Selinger
 robin (at) totshabbat(dot)com


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