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Employing a DIY, grass-
roots strategy and funding via
Kickstarter and other cam-
paigns, Orshalimy has built a
dedicated audience through
house concerts and other inti-
mate appearances, including for
synagogues and cultural orga-
nizations. She’s released sev-
eral albums of her own music
and works with her husband
as a duo called We Are the
Northern Lights. “Witchcraft,
”
meanwhile, is a sequel to her
first jazz album, “It Never Was
You,
” which she released during
December of 2019 after creating
a Great American Songbook
repertoire to perform at a
reception in New York for for-
mer President Barack Obama.
“The first album did have
some female Jewish writers on
there, but it wasn’t a major-
ity,
” she says. During virtual
concerts she produced during
the pandemic lockdown,
Orshalimy’s fans began to ask
for a sequel, which inspired her
to “do a little more research”
into the realm of Jewish female
writers for “Witchcraft.
”
“What I found is almost all of
them are lyricists,
” Orshalimy
says, “and the lyrics these
women wrote were so heartfelt
and powerful, just little nuances
here and there in the way they
expressed emotions. I think
there was something about the
live-or-die kind of situation
they were in that just made
them hustle like there’s no
tomorrow and made the emo-
tions run so strong. Everything
was felt so fiercely, the love and
the loss and the pain and the
struggle.
“It’s so different than what
you hear in (pop) music today.
”
Orshalimy has built a show
around “Witchcraft” and other
standards, with a “storytelling”
aspect from her research. She’s
also recorded a third album
of additional Great American
Songbook material she plans
to release in the future — and
a list of other projects she’ll get
to as time and circumstances
allow.
“We have many songs — so
many songs. There’s never a
shortage of those,
” she says.
“There’s always the next album,
and the next album ... It’s the
work of my life, so I want to
just keep doing it and move
forward.
”
You can purchase “Witchcraft” at
https://hadarmusic.com.
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