Erran Baron Cohen - Erran Baron Cohen Presents: Songs In The Key Of Hanukkah
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Artist: Erran Baron CohenEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-11-18
Music Label: Watertower Music
Soundtracks:
- Hanukkah oh Hanukkah (featuring Y-Love & Jules Brookes)
- Dreidel (featuring Jules Brookes)
- Ocho Kandalikas (featuring Yasmin Levy)
- Spin It Up (featuring Jules Brookes)
- Look To The Light (featuring Jules Brookes)
- Rock Of Ages (featuring Jules Brookes)
- Relics of Love and Light (featuring Idan Raichel & Avivit Caspi)
- A la Luz de la Vela (In the Light of the Candle) (featuring Yasmin Levy)
- My Hanukkah (Keep the Fire Alive) (featuring Y-Love & Dana Kerstein)
- Ma'oz Tzur (featuring Dana Kerstein)
Music reviews of Erran Baron Cohen Presents: Songs In The Key Of Hanukkah
Music Review: Not your parents' Hanukkah Music! But Fun!
Rating: 3 Stars
This is the season when every city is the US has a radio station which plays "all Christmas Music, All The Time". Well, they call it "holiday music" but most of it is about Christmas. After all, until Adam Sandler recorded "The Hanukkah Song", was there any Jewish holiday music appropriate for radio stations to play? (Answer is "no").
Yet all the best known Christmas songs. ("White Christmas", "Rudolph", etc.) were written by Jews.
This CD is an attempt to bring more Jewish holiday music to the younger generation who frequent dance clubs. After all Matisyahu blended Jewish traditional music with Reggae and scored a hit.
Produced by Erran Baron Cohen - best known for scoring his bother Sasha's movie "Borat", this album blends some traditional Jewish songs, played to a "different beat", with new songs. Most of it works, but not all. The second track "Dreidel", comes on a bit too strong and changes the mood after the opening "Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah" - again, not the way those who grew up in the 20th Century ever heard it.
If George Harrison lost his lawsuit with the Chiffons over borrowing the melody for "My Sweet Lord" from "He's So Fine", then Baron Cohen is on shaky ground with "Look To The Light". You'll sing along easily but will clearly be caught up because you know "My Sweet Lord". It's a fun sing along though. The most passionate track, in my opinion, is "In The Light Of The Candle". There are guest hip-hop artists on a few of the tracks and all will work in a Dance Club situation.
I'm not sure you'll hear these tracks on the radio this season; radio is too "programmed" for that. (Though the "programmed beats on the tracks on this CD" are programming of a different kind.
This is a disc you can give your 16-25 year old Jewish son or Grandson and show them, there's more to Jewish holiday music than Adam Sandler.
Steve Ramm
"Anything Phonographic"
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