Album Recording
Reserve your spot for the official studio session, and watch the band record the album live on July 28, 7:00 p.m. EST.
Prolific multi-instrumentalist musician-composer, creative ba'al tfilah (prayer leader), award-winning author and master teacher Joey Weisenberg turns his attention to deeply personal interpretations of the Psalms and other ancient prayers from the Jewish sages.
Joey is known for reaching into the heart of the nigun, the wordless Jewish spiritual melody, and synthesizing it with the timbre of the American soundscape and the passion of the blues bars he grew up playing in.
As Hadar's longtime musician-in-residence and the founder of the Rising Song Institute, Joey has channeled countless melodies that have resounded throughout the Jewish world. He invites you to join him in the studio for this next round of creative work!
Meet the Hadar Trio
Joey Weisenberg
Singer, guitarist, and composer Joey Weisenberg has released or produced over fourteen albums on Rising Song Records, and his comprehensive instructional series of Master Classes in Jewish Song has become a game changer in communal music making. He is the author of The Torah of Music (2017 winner of the National Jewish Book Award), and Building Singing Communities,
Richie Barshay
Richie Barshay began drumming inside kitchen cabinets at an early age, and continues banging on things worldwide to this day. Noted for his work with the Herbie Hancock Quartet in the 2000s, he's been dubbed "a major rhythm voice on the rise" by Downbeat magazine, and The Guardian (UK) praises "the arrival of a major innovator who also knows how to have fun."
Daniel Ori
Originally from Kfar Saba, Israel, bassist and composer Daniel Ori’s first exposures to music were classical piano recitals at his grandmother’s apartment in Tel-Aviv. Since moving to New York in 2008, Daniel's music has been described as fresh, communicative, lyrical and rhythmic—a blend of modern jazz with deep Middle Eastern roots and pan African influences.
Reserve your spot for the live recording session!
Watch the band record this album on July 28, at 7:00 EST.
This summer, Joey will spend a few days in the studio with two other musicians, a sound engineer, a videographer—and you! Join the musical journey at various stages along the way. Click the questions below for more info.
Watch the live, public album recording broadcast on July 28 on Bandcamp. Tickets can be purchased to support the recording and access a special post-recording Q&A.
There may be a free livestream option on the Rising Song Institute's Facebook page. More details TBD.
Tickets for the live recording broadcast start at $18/person, but individuals or organizations can pay any amount over that to support this creative work.
Please consider helping us cover our significant production costs by paying at one of these suggested levels: $100, $360, $720, $1800, $3600 or more.
Contact [email protected] to learn about perks for sponsors.
The new album will be released in the fall or winter of 2021. Details TBD.
Tickets to the album recording broadcast on July 28 cost $18, but folks who pay $36 or more to attend will receive a unique download code as soon as the album is released. As with all Rising Song Records releases, this album will be available for purchase and download from Bandcamp and for streaming on all major platforms.
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Subscribe to an ongoing, all-access pass to Joey's site to join the weekly Open Studio Sessions ($18/month) and witness the creative process while getting a feel for the songs before they're finalized.
This weekly live rehearsal session allows subscribers to peak behind the curtain and watch as Joey unveils new melodies, works on developing songs, invents new ways of playing established melodies and welcomes your feedback.
When you subscribed, you'll also be able to attend the subscribers-only bonus recording session livestream on July 27. Many people enjoy the opportunity to see the music develop from night to night, and that's why we're offering this special broadcast. On July 27, subscribers will have the exciting opportunity to see and hear the music in a more raw form.
Subscribers are billed monthly and are welcome to cancel at any time.
Tune in to the Open Studio Sessions on (most) Sunday nights at 8:00 Eastern on Zoom.
If you are already a subscriber and don't have the Zoom link, contact us at [email protected]. Weekly reminders are sent to all subscribers, so please let us know if you haven't received this information.
Join the creative process now!
Subscribe to Joey's Open Studio Sessions to witness the development of these songs firsthand in weekly virtual rehearsals. A subscription ($18/month) includes access to a bonus album recording session on July 27 exclusively for subscribers.
"In Joey Weisenberg’s Open Studio Sessions, a weekly online music-making event, songwriting is interspersed with dialogue and questions. More than interludes or pleasant distractions, these conversations are themselves building blocks to the compositional process. ... The intention is to foster a melodic and joyous encounter with liturgy, an auditory refresh on familiar text... Open Studio Sessions, occurring weekly and accessible to subscribers, illustrate the central premise of Rising Song’s identity: that music-making be a communal endeavor, even in the earliest stages of composing."
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