As Promised I have finished my review on the newest Shwekey release:L'sheim shomayim.Birishus
This song starts with the traditional tune from Akdamus and goes into a moderate ballad. The low part is real nice but the high part lacks a bit of a good hook and is a bit anti climatic.
Rating: 7 ½
Leshem Shomayim
The title song is the title for a reason it probably will be the next hit featured by Shwekey.Perhaps it will take the place of Shomati and Ben Bag Bag. I think there should have been more jamming on this song, live this song can really be a show tune.
Rating: 9
Eishes Chayil
A ballad and it attempts to take a more contemporary feel with suspended chords and Broadway style chord progressions. It’s not bad.
Rating: 7
Emes
The intro is misleading with heavy guitars that lead into… klezmer?
This sounds like every other chassidic frielach…nothing new here
Rating:5
Yizkerem
Arguably the most impressive ballad on this album and very haunting arrangement.
The choir arrangement is very tasteful and shwekey goes for some higher notes.
Rating: 8 ½
Halo Yadata
A sephardic song combining some very serphardic and contemporary chord changes.
Reminds of rona sheli rona.
Rating: 7 ½
Tatte Yiddish
This is another slow ballad in Yiddish. I think Yiddish is not one of Shwekey’s strength but the song is alright but nothing earth shattering.
Rating:6 ½
Hei Nam
If your not listening too carefully it sounds like he’s singing “hey now”. This is a a rock/disco and it attempts to be catchy but it is a bit dull.
Rating: 6 ½
Ki Hashem
Another ballad nice but nothing exetremely memorable.
Rating: 7
Ma Ma Ma
This disco with the words mamama sounds a bit strange. The arrangement is not enough
to wake up the tune.
Rating: 6
Meshoich
Another ballad, nice arrangements.
Rating: 7
Koili
A frielach/disco with a lot of stops and fills it could be a backup hit perhaps.
Rating: 8
Tatte English
It’s interesting to hear a Yiddish song and then hear it in English. The English is definitely better.
Rating:8
6 comments:
Are you sure you didnt read my review? :-) I also liked Ezekereim and also thought that Hein Am wasn't being pronounced right. To me it sounds like he was saying HeyNum!
Lol, I guess great minds think alike eh?
I tought Halo Yadata and Hein Am were the best songs, see http://jmusicforum.blogspot.com/ where I list why.
nice review
Tatte is a remake of an Abie Rotenberg song from Dveykus 2. I have always liked the melody, although I don't understand most of the Yiddish words. The song is brought to life in the English version, and Shwekey's singing brings it to a higher level, making an old classic a new classic, being accessible to the younger generation.
Regarding Tatte, I think it was a cheap filler for the album. The orginal yiddish lyrics had a better flow. The way he does the low part on a higher octave makes me cringe! I don't like it at all! I think he overdid it.
whoever it was that left the comment about the remake of the abie rotenberg song from dveykus made a small mistake. the song is really from Rabbi Menachem Davidowitz in Rochester NY, and the version that is sung on Lev tahor 3 is the closest to the original which I heard live from the composer.
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