Modulating Tongues Show Word from: Jake

March 8th, 7.30pm at the Bowery Poetry Club, Frantic Turtle is kicking down a set of its trademark ghetto-psalms. Following that, Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, a fantastic jazz vocalist, whose Tzadik-label release Maim Rabim has been rocking the critics for a while now, will do a set with her new Quartet.

By the Reverb of Babylon Videos Word from: Jake

These are the videos from the Mima'amakim's Reverb of Babylon show from Sep 2006 (Bowery Poetry Club, NY).

Major props and kudos to Josh Frankel for filmin!!!

Shir-Yaakov and Friends:



Hila Ratzabi:


Samuel Menashe Part I:


Samuel Menashe Part II:


Eve Grubin:


Frantic Turtle I:


Frantic Turtle II:



For more Frantic videos click here!


Jay Michaelson I:


Jay Michaelson II:


Jay Michaelson III:


Adam Shechter I:


Adam Shechter II:


Basya Schechter & Friends:


Basya Schechter & Friends:

The Blue Jew Yorker Word from: Jake

A new Jewish magazine!! The Blue Jew Yorker, "Poems of Survival and Ecstasy" - under the editorship of Mima'amakim's much-loved contributor, performer, and editor Adam Shechter. The first issue's theme is "Backwards as Upwards". Please welcome the new-born into the world with shouting and tears! And eight days from today, tune your raw nerves for the cutting of its you know what! Mazaltov!

To whet your appetites, I'll quote Adam's own Full Frontal Judaism, a gland-ripping manifesto:

Mutter broken chants by the CD player, then
carry 3000 years like gym clothes in a messenger bag,
dragging around this forever internally skinny shaking Jew
and mumble panicked reminders, "You have a body, you have
a naturally organic occurring weapon, hands and feet, and teeth....."
Most especially a body for rocking.
Yes, I can rock 5,000 years in the syntax of mind,
Special synaptic stones
to provide the proper leverage
to bow, swing, and moan.

Dig:

http://www.thebluejewyorker.com