What Joy is Yours original block print cover art + download
Poster/Print + Digital Album
Get the download of What Joy is Yours EP, plus an original block print of the cover art, hand carved and printed by Hannah on 8x10" archival printing paper. The art itself is 6x6". Comes with sturdy cardboard backing in a protective cello sleeve.
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Poem “Der arbetlozer redt tsum kind vegn zun-fargang” by L. Miller (1937)
English translation (“The Man Who is Out of Work Talks to His Son about the Sunset”) by Amelia Glaser and published in Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets (2012)
Music by Maia Brown, arrangement by Brivele
lyrics
Vay, vi s’hot der himl zikh tsebrent!
Es brent di oygn.
Finkeldige pasmes zun,
Farbn, tsarte, vaykhe,
Hoifns blitn, berg mit blumen…
Volt der bos aher dergraykhn,
Volt er altz far zikh genumen
Un gemakht fun dem profitn…
Azoy fil frayd far mentshn’s oygn,
Es vekt di benkshaft oyf in khartsn
Vayst aleyn nit vos zolst garn.
Vifl gold un vifl zilber!
Khotsh mit lopetes tsu sharn.
Nisht tsum mestn, nisht stum tseyln,
S’volt genug zayn yedn eynem
[Ayntsutayln…]
Farbn roisn…
Kolirn kumen un fargayn.
Vi zey toishn zikh un miniyen,
Azsh es nemt der kop zikh dreyen.
Ot iz zeyd, un dortn veyt iz samet.
Far yedn hoiz a por gardinen.
Vi sheyn es volt gepast der mamen
A kleyd fun yenem zeyd dem grinem.
Zi neyt un neyt un neyt,
Un ken zikh nit
Keyn leytish kleyd farginen.
English Translation:
Oh, how the sky is in flame!
it dazzles the eyes.
Sparkling strips of sun,
delicate, tender colors,
mounds of blossoms, mountains of flowers.
If the boss came here,
he’d take it all, then somehow use it
like a good profiteer.
Such pleasure for the human eye,
it wakes the longing in my heart—
you don’t know, yourself, what you should crave.
How much gold and how much silver!
Or simply spades to scrape at what’s already there.
Measureless, countless,
there’d be enough to give everyone
to share…
Colors rush…
Colors come in and go out.
How they turn and change,
‘til your head spins about.
That’s silk, and satin over there.
A pair of drapes for every house.
How mother would look in
a dress of that green silk.
She sews and sews and sews
and can’t afford a decent dress.
supported by 10 fans who also own “About the Sunset”
A critical album for the year of the Apocalypse, 2020, ranging from the highs and lows that one can experience only in times of extreme turmoil and angst. Favorite track is "Israel Nothing," though it shares the honor with "Israel Something." aaroncsimon
Proceeds from this excellent new darkambient/neofolk comp from LEFT/FOLK goes to benefit American Near East Refugee Aid. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 10, 2024
Beautifully played and full of moving vocal performances, the Bay Area singer/songwriter's latest is a stellar work of art. Bandcamp Album of the Day Feb 3, 2023
supported by 10 fans who also own “About the Sunset”
One of my favourite musical discoveries in a while. These musicians are seriously talented. I can’t help imagining that there would have been a whole significant subculture of Yiddish psych rock like this in a different, kinder universe. For now, this is a window into that world that might have been. And I love every second of it. Audrey