Jewlia Eisenberg

• DIGIPACK EDITION

One of the most important releases this year, Jewlia Eisenberg’s radical setting of texts by Walter Benjamin, Asja Lacis and Gershom Sholem point to a whole new style of acappela vocal music. Drawing upon traditions from doo-wop to Meredith Monk, Eskimo throat singing, to Hebrew cantilation and more, Trilectic is as charming as it is challenging. A brilliant vocalist and bandleader (Charming Hostess) Jewlia has studied a wide variety of vocal techniques, including the secular vocal music of women in the Jewish Falasha tribe in Ethiopia. An astonishing solo debut by this intensely creative musical thinker.

PERSONNEL:

• Wes Anderson - (voice, drums)
• Jewlia Eisenberg - (voice, bass)
• Nils Frykdahl - (voice)
• Frank Grau - (vocal percussion)
• Carla Kihlstedt - (voice, shaker)
• Dawn McCarthy - (voice)
• Freddy Price - (whistle)
• Dan Rathbun - (voice)
• Nina Rolle - (voice)

TRACKS:

• 01. Meister of Culture
• 02. Gershom is Schocked
• 03. Fortress Moscow
• 04. Eskimo Suit
• 05. The Secondary Purpose
• 06. If I am Holding Out Fairly Well
• 07. Hebrew Textbook
• 08. The Touch of Her Hands
• 09. Bread and Circuses
• 10. The Moon and Asja
• 11. Dream of Me—imagined Asja
• 12. Sicily * Guinea Tea
• 13. Social Contract
• 14. The Bed, The Café
• 15. Dame la Mano
• 16. Durme, Durme
• 17. Mi Dimandas
• 18. Adir Hu