4 panel gatefold wallet with a single pocket printed in full colour on recycled coated stock with matt cello finish. Photography care of Alex Weltlinger, Barnabas Imre and Gabor Balogh. Artwork care of Dean Burton and Ella Egidy.
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Concepts behind 'The Four Questions' by Zohar's Nigun (interview with Daniel Weltlinger, September 2012):
These are 2 very old songs that are according to a number of rabbinical sources dating from the time of the Jewish temple era, so they are probably some 2500-3000 years old. The Kohanim song only gets recited a small number of times a year during holiday festivals such as Passover, Sukkot, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, but it has always struck me as one of the strangest sounding of prayers. The Kohanim get up, we all wrap our prayer shawls around ourselves to cover our eyes and they chant this strange melody that to my ears has always SOUNDED old. I played around with the concept of a similar style of communication within the band, so the violin acts as the 'Kohanim' while the rest of the band chimes in like the congregation of the synagogue. From this song Daniel Pliner does an incredibly beautiful Bill Evans style introduction into the much older version of the well known liturgical song 'Aveinu Malkeinu' which is actually a song of forgiveness. In this context, using the violin, I 'ask' for forgiveness to the heavens above for my transgressions, for our people, for all people, for the damage being done to our world by greed and corruption, for the destruction of so much beauty in the name of human development, and the destruction of the natural order..
lyrics
English:
Chant
May G‑d bless you and guard you.
May G‑d shine His countenance upon you and be gracious to you.
May G‑d turn His countenance toward you and grant you peace.
