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Teiku: Reframing Ancestral Jewish Melodies @ BOP STOP
In Partnership With New Ghosts
June 20 from 7:00pm - 8:00pm
On Tuesday, June 20th, join us for a night of exploratory improvisation with a focus on melodies sung during Passover. This concert is presented in partnership with New Ghosts. Tickets to attend this concert in person are $15 each.
This event will also be livestreamed on BOP STOP's Facebook page at showtime. Accessing the stream is free but donations are encouraged and directly support the band. To donate, select "Donation: Livestream Attendee" (which is a $10 blanket ticket price) as your Ticket Option above and follow the steps below:
- Select "1" as your quantity and click "Add to Cart." If you wish to donate more than $10 to the band, you can increase your quantity.
- You may enter your name if you wish and click "Submit"
- Click on the "Edit Cart" button that pops up.
- Click "Checkout" to enter your card information.
Featuring:
- Rafael Leafar - woodwinds
- Josh Harlow - piano
- Jaribu Shahid - bass
- Jonathan Barahal Taylor - drums
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The families of pianist Josh Harlow and drummer Jonathan Barahal Taylor each sing unique melodies at the Passover seder, artifacts of their ancestral villages in modern day Ukraine. Upon realizing this striking similarity in their family histories, Josh and Jonathan started exploring their ancestral melodies through the lens of Creative Music ("jazz"), reframing them as launching points for improvisation, and arranging them in a rich song cycle that is deeply personal yet universal in its beauty. The excitement of improvisation lies in its uncertainty and its potential for infinite possibilities.
Teiku (a Talmudic acronym which means “unanswered question”) refers to the collective feeling of discovery that improvising musicians know well: creating spontaneous and cohesive sonic environments that are felt viscerally but cannot be expressed with words.
Teiku is also archival in its scope, working to document and reframe unique family melodies from the larger Jewish community. Harlow and Taylor have been joined in various formations by Jaribu Shahid, John Lindberg, Rafael Leafar, Peter Formanek, Aliya Ultan, and Will McEvoy to bring this concept to life.
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