HolyTaya (Holly Taya Shere)
Taya plays passionately in the realms of transformative ritual, mystical movement and embodied vocalization. Her chant albums Halleluyah All Night andWild Earth Shebrew have been heralded as “cutting-edge mystic medicine music” and rock devotional tribe world-wide. Taya co-founded and co-directs the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, reclaiming and innovating embodied, earth-honoring Jewish spiritual leadership in celebration of the sacred feminine. She looks for yeses everywhere.
Halleluyah All Night - Holy Taya Hymns of deep mystic play caress tabla, samba-reggae batucada, nyabinghi rhythms and more. A sensual Shabbat meditation for swooning and communing, for presencing to the pulse of God/ess in each other. May you Halleluyah All Night... Wild Earth Shebrew - Holy Taya A tribal chant experience reveling in the sacred feminine. Ancient, shamanic, ethereal. Rainbow Gathering meets Goddess Judaism... Creature Breath
Creature Breath catalogs one woman's expression of her human spirit as she travels the spiral journey Home, out of darkness, into light, and back again. Through exploration of textured light and soundscapes and the pulsing pull of Earth, Creature Breath gives a voice to fear of the unknown, longing for Truth, and begins her humble surrender to the divine will the Great Everything, with loving awe and reverence.
I Am Creature Breath - CD Creature Breath catalogs one woman's expression of her human spirit as she travels the spiral journey Home, out of darkness, into light, and back again. Through exploration of textured light and soundscapes and the pulsing pull of Earth, Creature breath gives a voice to fear of the unknown, longing for Truth, and begins her humble surrender to the divine will the Great Everything, with loving awe and reverence. Ohad Ezrahi
Ohad Ezrahi is a Neo-Kabbalist teacher and a leading figure in the spiritual world in Israel. An artist, a community leader and a perpetual student of life, Ohad received rabbinic ordination from Rabbi Zalman Schater-Shalomi. He is the author of Who's Afraid of Lilith? Reclaiming the Fullness of Women and Sexuality and Two Cherubs: The Erotic Secrets of the Temple in Jerusalem. He is the Founder of The Garden: The School for Love and Kabbalah. Something Out of Chaos, recorded with his love Dawn Cherie Ezrahi and the Neviah Ensemble, is a collection of his original compositions, including lyrics from Kabbalistic sources and his own creativity.
Something Out of Chaos - Ohad Ezrahi Stirring original compositions by Rabbi Ohad Ezrahi with lyrics from Kabbalistic sources and his own creativity. Recorded with Dawn Cherie Ezrahi and the Neviah Ensemble in front of a live audience. The first album produced by Neviah, The Hebrew Academy of Universal Spirit. Rakia ShemayaRakia Shemaya is a revolutionary performer, recording artist and educator, merging crystal vocals, resonant rhymes, nyabinghi percussion and hip-hop beats with a message of Oneness rooted in Rasta, Jewish and Goddess sensibilities. Her ground-breaking CD, the Rakia Shemaya Mixtape 2010/5770, evokes, educates and empowers. Rakia has performed internationally as a Hip Hop & Reggae singer, appearing with Steel Pulse, Midnite, Warrior Kind and Morgan Heritage at festivals and venues in Harlem, Hollywood, Montreal and Negril, Jamaica. She recently headlined the Jewish Women's Music Festival. Rakia's Jewish Hip Hop and Reggae curriculum, "Heeb Hop," informed by her degree in Education through Movement, Music and Vocalization at Goddard College, has inspired students in public schools and temples across the country. She takes her name from Biblical Hebrew, meaning the firmament, expanse, or horizon, which separates duality, while at the same time knowing all is One.
The Rakia Shemaya Mixtape (Coming Soon) Crystal vocals, resonant rhymes, nyabinhi percussion and hip-hop beats bring a message of Oneness rooted in Rasta, Jewish and Goddess sensibilities. This ground-breaking CD evokes, educates and empowers. Shoshana JedwabNew-York-based percussionist and award-winning educator Shoshana Jedwab is an emerging singer-songwriter of beat-driven sacred melodies. Shoshana channels ancient Hebrew prophecy and prayer into world music, and celebrates the universal impulse to sing out one's gratefulness and surrender into deeper consciousness. Her original music highlights indigenous, ecstatic elements in Jewish prayer, and her shamanic, trickster voice reverberates throughout Jewish creative community. She founded the Makom Drum Circle in Manhattan and is on the faculty of the Kohenet Priestess Institute and the Holy Drummer's Institute.
I Remember - Shoshana Jedwab A timeless anthem celebrating indigenous and ecstatic elements in Jewish prayer. An embracing of the universal impulse to sing out in gratitude and to surrender to deeper consciousness. Simu LevSimu Lev is the acoustic duo of Arik Labowitz and Maxxine Smith. Their collaboration began in 2000 during a course on the mystical elements of the Sabbath when Arik, who was teaching, opened each session with his guitar and a song, and Maxxine began to accompany him on flute. The music of Simu Lev, which literally means "Give Your Heart" and colloquially is used to mean "Pay Attention" quiets the mind, uplifts the soul and brings joy to the heart. Simu Lev has released two albums; the self-titled Simu Lev (2001) and Revive (2008).
Revive - Simu Lev Quiet the mind, uplift the heart, nourish the spirit... Simu Lev Jewish music of the soul whose sound is both ancient and contemporary, weaving melodies of joy and longing. |
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