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Filed under: jewish, music | Tags: adir hu, david griffin, hebrew school, jewish, passover, pesach, record release, seder, six points
So I was thinking about how nice it turned out that our record release show on April 14 will technically be on Passover (the seventh night, though it seems like most American Jews celebrate on the first and/or second nights, next Wednesday and Thursday, straddling the seder in Israel).
It’s funny because one of my initial song ideas– predating the Fellowship by a couple of years– was a song that somehow got “Adir Hu” worked into it. “Adir Hu” is a song that’s sung towards the end of the Passover seder.
Not sure how this happened. I had a very simple two-chord progression that worked really well with one of the traditional melodic standards for the song. I couldn’t help but think that some Jews at some point (50 years ago? a century? more? less? the origins of these melodies are always controversial, and I don’t really like it when Jews argue too much) had a little bit of Joey Ramone in them. Or a little Mambo-X, or Camera Obscura, or etc. etc. Milli Vanilli etc.
Just found this really old demo of “Ancillary Devices” (before the demo version on my myspace was made) from 2005.
Do you know what Passover is? Is it a Jewish thing?
Do some Christians celebrate it?
If you’re Jewish or not do you have any Passover plans for next week?
Do you have any Passover family traditions?
Click here to hear another version of “Adir Hu,” compliments of the Florida Atlantic University Jewish Sound Archives.
Hot on the heels of our record release, Hebrew School, the blog, enters its terrible twos today. Thought I’d spend some time reminiscing with you on some memorable posts. So, let me take over as your momentary Audra Lindley as Suzanne Somers morphs into Jenilee Harrison, won’t you?
Hebrew School 