- Audio CD (30 Aug 1999)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Sounds True
- ASIN: B00000JT62
- Other Editions: Audio Cassette
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 927,645 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Roza DeShabbros |
| 2. Szol a Kakas Mar |
| 3. Haben Yakir Li |
| 4. Kad Ayil Shabbeso |
| 5. Irme Quero Madre |
| 6. Zoma Lecho Nafshi |
| 7. Ochila LaEL |
| 8. Hallelu Adir Adirum |
| 9. Ato Yodeah Rozei Olam |
Product Description
CD Description
Hear The Feminine Voice of Mystical Judaism. For generations, the female voice has been forbidden in Jewish sacred music even as these same women have served as the silent witnesses to a history of overwhelming joy and sorrow. Ruth Wieder Magan's Songs to the Invisible God breaks that silence in a stunning excursion into the feminine spirit hiding within Judaism's mystical roots. Magan's work has already been hailed as a revelation of the female voice and its potential in prayer throughout the Holy Land and Europe, moving her audiences to tears, kneeling and awe-inspired silence. On this, her debut release, she offers listeners a journey into the deepest yearnings, lamentations and reveries of Jewish prayer and song from authentic nigunim and piyut to the magical words of the Zohar, from the mystical incantations of the kabbalah to the passionate Ladino folk songs of medieval Spain. Listen, as one woman's luminous voice stretches into the void - blind, emphatic, singing - in search of the Ein Sof, silent heart of all creation.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
This is Jewish spiritual music at its very best!
2 Oct 2000
Format:Audio CD
As a disaffected non-practicing Jew with Zen Buddhist leanings, I was stunned upon listening to this glorious music. Having endured for most of 48 years the stifling patriarchal dogma that comprises much of modern day Judaism, I was literally brought to tears by the radiant beauty and soaring spirituality of this music. Ms. Magan's deep voice and inspired interpretations are perfectly matched. All unaccompanied and recorded in settings chosen for their acoustical effect, comparisons to the Anonymous 4 are definitely in order. This is Jewish spiritual music at its very best.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Excellent spiritual music
15 Mar 2002
Format:Audio CD
After hearing the Israeli folk musician Chava Alberstein sing a Psalm in a style unlike any I'd heard before, I went searching for similar Judaic religious music. This cd, while unlike Ms. Alberstein, is the stunning result of that search. This is music that clearly belongs to the mystic tradition rather than the ritual tradition. The music is haunting, searching, lonely in a way unlike any other religious music I've heard - it is an expression of the longing for mystic union rather than the more common mystic music to induce a trance. While the style and tone are Middle Eastern, the music is so "right" for what it expresses that one can hardly conceive of it in a more Western style.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Excellent spiritual music
15 Mar 2002
Format:Audio CD
After hearing the Israeli folk musician Chava Alberstein sing a Psalm in a style unlike any I'd heard before, I went searching for similar Judaic religious music. This cd, while unlike Ms. Alberstein, is the stunning result of that search. This is music that clearly belongs to the mystic tradition rather than the ritual tradition. The music is haunting, searching, lonely in a way unlike any other religious music I've heard - it is an expression of the longing for mystic union rather than the more common mystic music to induce a trance. While the style and tone are Middle Eastern, the music is so "right" for what it expresses that one can hardly conceive of it in a more Western style.
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