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formers and styles that is nearly seam-
less in creating the right holiday
atmosphere.
Light 2 links ancient melodies with
contemporary rhythms, showcases
obscure acts as well as star power,
welcomes non-Jewish as well as a
range of Jewish performers, and musi-
cally delivers the Diaspora to your
Festival of Light 2 by Various artists
heart and home — in English,
(Six Degrees Records)
In 1996, Bob Appel and Robert
Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew.
The collection opens with the
Duskis, a pair of Jewish record com-
absolutely gor-
pany executives
geous "Haneros
tired of producing
Hallelu" by an
formula Christmas
unknown singer
records every year,
called Le'eyla, who
struck out on their
sent an unsolicited
own, forming Six .
tape after hearing
Degrees Records.
the first Festival of
The duo's first
Light CD.
release was the
Sung in
critically acclaimed
Hebrew and
and commercially
English and
successful Festival
based on a recita-
of Light, which
tion done after
sold 100,000
lighting Chanuka
copies.
"Festival of Light 2" musically delivers
candles, the
"We got a lot of the Diaspora to your heart and home.
somber yet hope-
great response
ful voices and
from a whole range
gentle cello set the record's tone. It
of people, Jews and non-Jews," Appel
is a gorgeous composition.
says of the first Chanuka compilation
Another highlight is "La Mujer de
that featured Marc Cohn, Peter
Terah," from another little-known
Himmelman, Rebbe Soul, Don
group called Continuo, whose leader,
Byron and others.
Victor Friedlberg, is a descendant of
"That made us feel really great
Sephardic Jews from Greece and
because we're living in a Christian
Turkey. The song is sung in Ladino,
society and it's enough to make [a
propelled by a soft hip-hop rhythm
non-Christian] person go out of [his]
mind. All your non-Jewish friends are
and based on, according to the liner
notes, "midrashic interpretation of
playing all this [music] for Christmas,
the biblical events leading to the birth
but there wasn't any stuff for Jews.
of Abraham." It is a heartwarming
"We really set out to make a record
the whole family would put on while
fusion of past and present.
The always welcome Peter
having a little schnapps before dinner,
hanging out, catching up. There was
Himmelman , who performed with
David Broza on the first Light record,
no record like that that appealed to a
is back (as are the Klezmatics). His
wide range of people, including peo-
"Embryo of Silence is lyrically stun-
ple in mixed marriages, to bring peo-
ning, and as Duskis says, "a naked,
ple back to their ethnicity, let alone
raw love song to Jerusalem."
religion."
Himmelman also wrote the Neshama
Three years later, after lots of
Carlebach contribution, "A Love
research and the blessings and advice
Transcending."
of a rabbi and a chazan, Appel and
A potential American Chanuka
Duskis have released Festival of Light
classic comes out of left field, compli-
2.
ments of They Might Be Giants, an
Ifyou don't want to rock out on
alternative pop group known for its
Chanuka but want to expand the
off-kilter sense of humor and for
boundaries of Chanuka music, then
recording with toy instruments, as it
Festival of Light 2, like its predecessor,
is a must-add to your record collec-
does on the catchy Feast of Light. Don't
let the cute melody and childlike
tion (despite the nearly impossible-to-
singing mislead you; the song delivers
read liner notes).
It accomplishes the rare feat of try-
a message to take to heart: Don't be a
hypocrite during the holiday.
ing to be all things to all people and
succeeds. It's an eclectic compilation
Have a happy, rockin' Chanukal
featuring seemingly incompatible per-
she says of her physician father who
wanted her to get a college degree.
But he's so proud of her now
When it's suggested that it takes a
"Jewish gene" to write a song like
that, Bonoff replies, "You may be
right."
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