31th July 2020 – Shabbat is almost here
And in this occasion I am very lucky, as I have been able to ask the artists about them and about the music piece as well. Because they are alive, and very alive! The Slovak band Mojše Band accompanies us again in Music Before Shabbat.
Hello! How are you in this very last day of July? Maybe just about to start holidays! In my case I am planning to stay and continue sending this little musical jewels to you every week.
The old recordings are charming and we love them. And we have also contemporary artists that are very inspiring too. Our artist of this edition was with us already in this occasion. Why are they back? Because I really appreciate their work, that I have experienced live twice. Michal Pal’ko, singer and cimbalonist of the band has kindly answered some questions and he also sent me a piece, Niezhuryca khlopcy, from their latest album, to share it with you!
Download it here ⬇️ and watch them in video at the bottom. And if you like it, you can order the full album, here.
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Mojše Band, the perfect mix of deepness and joy
Mojše Band are František Kubiš, Jakub Stračina and Michal Pal’ko. To learn more about the band, check their facebook and their website.
Michal Pal’ko kindly answered my questions, so let’s let him talk.
About the song Niezhuryca khlopcy
ARACELI: About the song: where is it from, where did you find or learn it. What does it talk about?
MICHAL: It’s a traditional nigun (song without the words, or with some kind of citation). In this case nign “Niezhuryca khlopcy” has in three sections (A, B, C), three typical kinds of texture:
- First: Ruthenian citation from originaly Kharpato-Rusyn text
- Second: nigunot sound “NAJ-NAJ…”
- Third: and finally, C section, typical Chabad nigunot vovels BOI-BOI, or Bo-Bo-BOI… also means in hebrew “go-go”.
About the outstanding Michal Pal’ko, by himself
ARACELI: About you: year and place of birth, place where you are settled. Did you receive lessons for liturgic singing or anything like that? I think you can conduct religious services and I know it requires a lot of time for studying. What made you interested in that?
MICHAL: I was born in 1988, in the middle of Slovakia, in a town without Jewish community, without any Jewish cultural or liturgical background, so as I grew up I needed to learn everything… I studied classical music (composition, cimbalom and conducting) and at same time, during my studies in Krakow, I studied Jeshiva pardes Lauder and some private lessons from Tora and Kabala, and cantorial chanting as well. In cantorial chanting, I am the most interested in different ways of how to do service, how to be still in touch with all kehila and G-d. and on the other side with the present and the past. Huge tradition behind you. I used feel like in library, you can choose and create in same time. Still perfectly “on-line”.
About the near future
ARACELI: About your future plans: what are you doing in this time of the pandemic? What are your near future plans, in terms of music?
MICHAL: We are doing well with my band Moishe Band on several projects, like the long time term project of editions (Musica Iudaica Monarchiae, Shlomo ben Rivke edition…). And doing music, researching… We are not so many Jews here in central Europe so we have to work as 5 persons in one man.
Clic the picture to listen to Niezhuryca khlopcy by Mojše Band:
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Shabbat Shalom.
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