AlefBase
| AlefBase | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Studio album by Gevolt | |
| Released | March 25, 2011 |
| Recorded | 2005-2010 |
| Genre |
Folk/Industrial Metal Yiddish metal |
| Length | 49:26 |
| Language | Yiddish |
| Label | Gevolt Productions |
| Producer | Gevolt |
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metal Storm | (8.9/10) [1] |
| Today's Metal (Bulgarian) |    [2] |
| Darkside.ru (Russian) | [3] |
AlefBase is the second album by the Israeli metal band Gevolt. Released on 25 March 2011, the album was a first full-length metal album in Yiddish language in history of music. All tracks are based on traditional and well-known Yiddish songs such as Tum Balalayke and Zog Nit Keyn Mol.
The album's genre declared as Yiddish Metal,[4] but listeners may to referred it to Neue Deutsche Härte.[5]
At 25 February 2011, before the official release date, the album was already available to download[6] for free. And it remained free for several years from the band's official web site.
The album has received many positive reviews in lots of online blogs, newspapers and radio stations in various languages. Such sources as an American newspaper The Forward and German Die Welt mentioned the new phenomenon of the Yiddish metal in their articles.[7] [8]
The track Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn from the album was featured in April by Music Alliance Pact.[9] Also the album entered in Top 4 Author's Torrents at March on bittorrent tracker Rutracker.org.[10]
At 2016 the album was accepted to the Freedman Jewish Sound Archive by Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania [11]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Hakdome" | 0:32 |
| 2. | "Trinken A Bisale Vayn" | 3:13 |
| 3. | "Der Rebe Elimelekh" | 3:04 |
| 4. | "Sha Shtil" | 4:01 |
| 5. | "Tum Balalayke" | 3:37 |
| 6. | "Shpil Zhe Mir A Lidele In Yiddish" | 5:09 |
| 7. | "Mayn Rue Plats (My Resting Place)" | 5:09 |
| 8. | "Zog Nit Keyn Mol" | 4:06 |
| 9. | "A Mol Iz Geven A Mayse" | 4:40 |
| 10. | "Sheyn Vi Di Levone" | 3:18 |
| 11. | "Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn" | 4:30 |
| 12. | "Tshiribim Tshiribom" | 3:55 |
| 13. | "Der Alefbeys" | 3:34 |
Personnel
Band members
- Anatholy Bonder − vocals
- Michael Gimmervert − guitars, strange banjo
- Mark Lekhovitser − bass guitars
- Vadim Weinstein − drums
- Dmitry Lifshitz − keyboards
- Eva Yefremov − violins
Guest musicians
- Yevgeny Kushnir − clean guitars/guitar FX on 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 / oud on 11 / Help in arrangements in 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11
- Max Mann − bass guitars on 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 / Help in arrangements in 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11
- Marina Klionski − Help in arrangements in 5, 6, 8
- Anna Agre − Help in arrangements in 2, 4, 8, 9
- Oleg Szumski − drums adds on 5, 8 / Help in arrangements in 5, 8
Production
- Recorded in "Muzikansky" studio (Ashdod, Israel), "Tsolelet" studio (Tel Aviv, Israel), "Soundroll" studio (Givataim, Israel) and "Taketwoo" studio (Kiryat Ono, Israel), 2005–2010
- Produced by Gevolt
- Engineered by Gevolt
- Mixed and premastered by Gevolt, 2010–2011
- Illustrations concept by Leonid Polonsky
- Art and design by Mark Lekhovitser
- Yiddish consulting by Leybl Botwinik
References
- ↑ "AlefBase", Metal Storm.
- ↑ "Gevolt - 2011 - Alef Base (review)"(Bulgarian), Today's Metal, 28 February 2011. Retrieved on 28 February 2011.
- ↑ "AlefBase (review)"(Russian), Darkside.ru, 9 March 2016. Retrieved on 9 March 2016.
- ↑ "Gevolt – Yiddish metal pioneer band", Virtual Shtetl, 19 May 2011. Retrieved on 19 May 2011.
- ↑ Dr. Kahn-Harris, Keith. "Yiddish-Speaking Vikings", Souciant, 20 April 2011. Retrieved on 20 April 2011.
- ↑ Gevolt. "Facebook post" Facebook, 25 February 2011. Retrieved on 25 February 2011
- ↑ Mehalel, Adi. "Gevolt - Industrial-Metal-Music in Yiddish"(Yiddish), Yiddish Forward, New-York, 1 July 2011. Retrieved on 1 July 2011.
- ↑ Borgstede, Michael. "Heavy-Metal-Songs auf Jiddisch"(German), Die Welt, 25 April 2011. Retrieved on 25 April 2011.
- ↑ "Music Alliance Pact – April 2011", Indieful Rok, 15 April 2011. Retrieved on 15 April 2011
- ↑ "Top authors torrents at March"(Russian), RuTracker.org. 16 April 2011. Retrieved on 16 April 2011
- ↑ "Look up album G-138(a)", Penn Libraries, 2016. Retrieved on 2016
External links
- AlefBase at Gevolt's official site.
- AlefBase at Soundcloud.
- "AlefBase", Encyclopaedia Metallum, 26 February 2011. Retrieved on 26 February 2011.
- Megen, Aleks. "AlefBase Review"(Russian) Evrofilm.com, 4 September 2012. Retrieved on 4 September 2012.
- Brushvox, Attila. "AlefBase Review", 26 July 2011.