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Sophie and the Shofar
Item #: 101078
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Illustrated by
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Two cousins, Sophie and
Sasha, play and work
togetheruntil a missing
shofar comes between them.
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In April, 2009 Dan Nichols and his E18hteen bandmates Nathan Meckel and Mark Niemiec retreated for four days to the Timberwolf cabin nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains to celebrate their success. Dan describes it: “Mark and I had been talking about it for years: let’s get a cabin in the mountains and play music just for the sake of being together, making music, and laughing a lot. Our touring routine had so often become, fly to the gig, sound-check and rehearse (which is almost always one in the same), play the show, review the show while grabbing a quick bite, and then fly home. This usually all seems to happen within twenty-four hours. There’s rarely enough time for musical ideas to develop completely for the group as a whole. (But) in the midst of the Great Smoky Mountains, where our goal was to sit back and give ourselves a big pat on the back for work well done, we managed to record an entire album.”
To The Mountains is an anthology of twelve songs performed live—overdubs were used as sparingly as possible in order to maintain the live feel. The band played what felt good and recorded when the time felt right. The result is a collection of moments on the mountain, moments of celebration, redemption, release, meditation, prayer, and thanks.
This stunning new recording features new songs debuted by Dan at Hava Nashira 2009—“Get Up” and “Sweet As Honey”—as well as tunes like “Hoshia” that are already becoming classics in URJ camps and youth groups across North America. Hear what happened when Dan and the band went… To The Mountains.
TRACK LIST
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1. Get Up
2. Pure
3. Hoshia
4. Reach You
5. Ki Eshmera Shabbat
6. Now We Are Free
7. Ahavat Olam
8. Birkat Hamazon
9. Sweet As Honey
10. Aleinu
11. E’s Nigun
12. I Found My Love
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