It was the year Taf Shin Mem Chet (1988) when Piamenta recorded a really cool jazz rock sephardic fusion of Israeli tunes. Fast forward 20 years and I am in Seattle for LagBaOmer, the local Chabad Rabbi hipped me to a lost and possibly forgotten Piamenta album. So obscure that when the Rabbi showed Yossi Piamenta that he had it, Yossi replied, “I don’t even have that album!!”. The Rabbi, without hesitation, laced him with his copy. The song is upwards of 20 minutes and “Kol Sasson” makes its debut in an extended jam mashed with “Eretz Zavat Chalav Udevash” (Land of Milk and Honey). The song is a huge contrast to his later Jewish hit of of “Kol Sasson” on the “Big Time” record. There are two other extended jam medley’s that totally fit the Tismach era, off of “Azreini Keil Chai – Shirei Simcha” which are, “Medley of Horas” and “Medley of Chassidic Hits”. Well, as we do every month or so, we will give it to you here, on Shemspeed, since you can’t get it anywhere else! (click here to download the full album). Enjoy and comment with any reviews below!
Shemspeed is an independent recording label and promotional agency highlighting cross-over music artists with positive and unifying messages. Founded by Erez Safar, an American-Israeli DJ/Producer, Shemspeed promotes over 15 dynamic artists representing a wide range of genres including hip-hop, reggae, and rock. These artists include Y-Love (revolutionary Jewish hip-hop), Diwon (Yemenite / Sephardic hip-hop, Israeli music and more), DeScribe (soul-awakening dancehall, hip-hop, & soul), and Electro Morocco (Israeli rock, dance music.) Shemspeed artists, collectively showcasing the diversity in world Jewish music, have performed with musicians as varied as Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, Idan Raichel and Eminem; they’ve been profiled in Rolling Stone, SPIN, The New York Times and XXL; and they’ve been seen and heard around the world on various TV appearances (Conan O’Brien, CBS and BBC World) and global radio. Shemspeed’s mission is unifying people through culture and education, celebrating diversity and common ground. By way of this work, we add a public Jewish voice to multi-cultural, inter-faith, creative and collaborative bridge-building.
It was the year Taf Shin Mem Chet (1988) when Piamenta recorded a really cool jazz rock sephardic fusion of Israeli tunes. Fast forward 20 years and I am in Seattle for LagBaOmer, the local Chabad Rabbi hipped me to a lost and possibly forgotten Piamenta album. So obscure that when the Rabbi showed Yossi Piamenta that he had it, Yossi replied, “I don’t even have that album!!”. The Rabbi, without hesitation, laced him with his copy. The song is upwards of 20 minutes and “Kol Sasson” makes its debut in an extended jam mashed with “Eretz Zavat Chalav Udevash” (Land of Milk and Honey). The song is a huge contrast to his later Jewish hit of of “Kol Sasson” on the “Big Time” record. There are two other extended jam medley’s that totally fit the Tismach era, off of “Azreini Keil Chai – Shirei Simcha” which are, “Medley of Horas” and “Medley of Chassidic Hits”. Well, as we do every month or so, we will give it to you here, on Shemspeed, since you can’t get it anywhere else! (click here to download the full album). Enjoy and comment with any reviews below!