AlefBase
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AlefBase is the second album by the Israeli metal band Gevolt. Released on 25 March 2011, the album was a first full-length metal album in Yiddish language
.
All tracks are based on traditional and well-known Yiddish songs such as Tum Balalayke
and Zog Nit Keyn Mol.
The album's genre declared as Yiddish Metal, but listeners may to referred it to Neue Deutsche Härte
.
Yiddish language
Yiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...
.
All tracks are based on traditional and well-known Yiddish songs such as Tum Balalayke
Tumbalalaika
Tumbalalaika is a Russian Jewish folk and love song in the Yiddish language. Tuml is the yiddish word for noise and a balalaika is a stringed musical instrument of Russian origin.-Lyrics:Original lyrics in Yiddish...
and Zog Nit Keyn Mol.
The album's genre declared as Yiddish Metal, but listeners may to referred it to Neue Deutsche Härte
Neue Deutsche Härte
Neue Deutsche Härte is a genre of industrial metal. The term was invented by the German music press after the release of the debut album Herzeleid by Rammstein....
.
Track listing
Band members
- Anatholy Bonder − vocals
- Michael Gimmervert − guitars, strange banjoBanjoIn the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
- Mark Lekhovitser − bass guitarsBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Vadim Weinstein − drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- Dmitry Lifshitz − keyboardsMusical keyboardA musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
- Eva Yefremov − violinsViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
Guest musicians
- Yevgeny Kushnir − clean guitars/guitar FX on 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 / oudOudThe oud is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in North African and Middle Eastern music. The modern oud and the European lute both descend from a common ancestor via diverging paths...
on 11 / Help in arrangementsArrangementThe American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
in 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 - Max Mann − bass guitarsBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
on 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 / Help in arrangementsArrangementThe American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
in 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 - Marina Klionski − Help in arrangementsArrangementThe American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
in 5, 6, 8 - Anna Agre − Help in arrangementsArrangementThe American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
in 2, 4, 8, 9 - Oleg Szumski − drums addsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
on 5, 8 / Help in arrangementsArrangementThe American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
in 5, 8
Production
- Recorded in "Muzikansky" studio (Ashdod, IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
), "Tsolelet" studio (Tel AvivTel AvivTel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
, IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
), "Soundroll" studio (Givataim, IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
) and "Taketwoo" studio (Kiryat Ono, IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
), 2005-2010 - Produced by Gevolt
- Engineered by Gevolt
- Mixed and premastered by Gevolt, 2010-2011
- Illustrations concept by Leonid Polonsky
- Art and design by Mark Lekhovitser
- Yiddish consultingYiddish languageYiddish is a High German language of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, spoken throughout the world. It developed as a fusion of German dialects with Hebrew, Aramaic, Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages...
by Leybl Botwinik
External links
- AlefBase at Gevolt's official site.
- AlefBase at Soundcloud.
- "AlefBase", Encyclopaedia MetallumEncyclopaedia MetallumEncyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music...
, 26 February 2011. Retrieved on 26 February 2011. - "Music Alliance Pact – April 2011 – Featuring Gevolt!", Metal Israel.
- Borgstede, Michael. "Heavy-Metal-Songs auf Jiddisch", Die WeltDie WeltDie Welt is a German national daily newspaper published by the Axel Springer AG company.It was founded in Hamburg in 1946 by the British occupying forces, aiming to provide a "quality newspaper" modelled on The Times...
, 25 April 2011. - Paraszczuk, Joanna. "Yiddish is alive and well in the Hebrew city", Jerusalem Post, 10 August 2010.
- Brushvox, Attila. "AlefBase", 26 July 2010.
- "Top authors torrents at March", RuTracker.org.