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Shir Hadash

by Daniel Biro

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Kol Ha Aretz 02:34
KOL HA'ARETZ SHIR CHADASH Everyone On Earth Sing A New Song URI, URI SHIR DABEIRI Wake Up, Wake Up And Proclaim A Song
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AZAMRA BE'ODI I Will Make Music While I Exist
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SHIR CHADASH A New Song
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ZAMMRU, RANNU Make Music, Sing Joyfully
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SHIRU LO SHIR CHADASH HAYTIVU NAGGEN BITRUA Sing A New Song, Play Well With Sounds Of Deepest Feeling
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Chayos 09:26

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Multi-faceted composer Daniel Biro returns with a collection of a-cappella gospel-inspired works for voices and electronics. Featuring three vocalists from the Elastic Theatre Ensemble led by Jacek Ludwig Scarso, ‘Shir Hadash’ (‘A New Song’ in Hebrew) combines the timeless immediacy of pattern-based gospel harmonies with contemporary electronic sound processing. The piece was first performed at Kings Place, London in November 2009 with all the electronic processing performed live.

Repetitive chanting has always been associated with mystical, trance-inducing states. All spiritual traditions employ some version of circular/spiral voice-based rituals to help detach from the physical world and attain higher levels of perception. Ancient Hebrew prayers, especially the Psalms, are full of expressions of singing ‘new songs’ as exhortations to awake and celebrate the spirit through music. Each piece of ‘Shir Hadash’ uses a selection of these expressions as lyrics.

The electronic processing on the voices suggests the transition from material world to mystical spheres. The more ‘earthy’ Kol Ha Aretz has very little processing, whereas the final Chayos (name of a class of angelic being, carrier of the divine throne) is pure electronics. Some percussion and Biro’s Rhodes electric piano are also present in the baroque-flavoured Naggen Bitrua and the jazzier Shir Hadash 2.

In some ways, ‘Shir Hadash’ links back to Biro’s 1996 female-only a-cappella piece The Comparative Anatomy of Angels (Sargasso SCD28022).

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released January 1, 2014

Written, recorded and produced by Daniel Biro
Jacek Ludwig Scarso, Russell Matthews, Danny Standing: voices
Daniel Biro: electronics, electric piano, percussion

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Daniel Biro London, UK

Composer, keyboard player, producer, improvisor, songwriter, sound designer who loves the Rhodes electric piano + analog synths and makes jazz-fusion / electronic / ambient / art-prog / experimental music. From solo projects to working with his bands Echo Engine and Mysteries Of The Revolution, to film soundtracks, Daniel's unique cosmopolitan sound is at the centre of his multi-faceted universe. ... more

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