{"id":487471,"date":"2022-08-24T22:56:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T19:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/song-you-need-eli-winters-transcendent-take-on-a-jewish-tradition\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T22:56:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T19:56:47","slug":"song-you-need-eli-winters-transcendent-take-on-a-jewish-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/song-you-need-eli-winters-transcendent-take-on-a-jewish-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"#Song You Need: Eli Winter\u2019s transcendent take on a Jewish tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bbfb4c37cd\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/song-you-need-eli-winters-transcendent-take-on-a-jewish-tradition\/#%E2%80%9CSong_You_Need_Eli_Winters_transcendent_take_on_a_Jewish_tradition%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Song You Need: Eli Winter\u2019s transcendent take on a Jewish tradition&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/song-you-need-eli-winters-transcendent-take-on-a-jewish-tradition\/#Named_for_a_Passover_standard_%E2%80%9CDayenu%E2%80%9D_is_a_sweeping_seven-minute_saga_that_blends_American_primitivism_and_jazz\" >Named for a Passover standard, \u201cDayenu\u201d is a sweeping, seven-minute saga that blends American primitivism and jazz.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CSong_You_Need_Eli_Winters_transcendent_take_on_a_Jewish_tradition%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Song You Need: Eli Winter\u2019s transcendent take on a Jewish tradition&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Named_for_a_Passover_standard_%E2%80%9CDayenu%E2%80%9D_is_a_sweeping_seven-minute_saga_that_blends_American_primitivism_and_jazz\"><\/span>Named for a Passover standard, \u201cDayenu\u201d is a sweeping, seven-minute saga that blends American primitivism and jazz.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236045\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" 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750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed-_6__m3ty0i\/song-you-need-eli-winter-dayenu.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed-_6__m3ty0i\/song-you-need-eli-winter-dayenu.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed-_6__m3ty0i\/song-you-need-eli-winter-dayenu.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed-_6__m3ty0i\/song-you-need-eli-winter-dayenu.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed-_6__m3ty0i\/song-you-need-eli-winter-dayenu.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"60vw\" alt=\"Song You Need: Eli Winter\u2019s transcendent take on a Jewish tradition\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Julia Dratel<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236054\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/eliwinter.com\/\">Eli Winter<\/a>\u2019s new self-titled LP is a gorgeous piece of art from front to back, but its final two tracks (\u201cDayenu\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Baf8DB7WAHs&amp;ab_channel=EliWinter-Topic\">Unbecoming<\/a>\u201d) push it into truly rarified air. The latter song, a string saga that explodes into ecstatic epiphanies of bowing and strumming every 30 seconds or so, captures eight and a half of the most beautiful minutes of music recorded in recent memory. But it\u2019s the former cut that best encapsulates the album as a whole.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            \u201cDayenu (\u05d3\u05d9\u05e0\u05d5)\u201d shares a name with one of Judaism\u2019s most recognizable sonic standards, dating back over 1,000 years. It\u2019s traditionally sung during the Passover seder after the telling of the story of the Jews\u2019 exodus from Egypt as a tribute to the many miracles God performed to help them along their way, according to the Torah. It roughly translates to \u201cIt would have been enough\u201d (\u201cIf He had brought us out from Egypt, and had not carried out judgments against them, it would have been enough. If he had carried out judgment against them, and not against their idols, it would have been enough.\u201d Et cetera.)<\/p>\n<p>            Winter\u2019s rendition, however, is wordless. Like \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1iIgQ1Uq2kU\">Davening in Threes<\/a>\u201d from earlier in the album, it processes an ancient Jewish tradition \u2014 in that case, the liturgical recitation of prayer \u2014 through the American primitivist tradition of acoustic guitar playing (Winter\u2019s preferred mode of expression). But \u201cDayenu\u201d is a more expansive, complex document of the uniquely Jewish mix of gratitude and guilt its title implies. <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Its first half finds Winter\u2019s virtuosic fingerpicking <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lied to an electric guitar, accompanied by backing strings from another electric axe (Cameron Knowler) and a pedal steel (Sam Wagster). Tyler Damon, who drums on every track of the record other than its percussionless closer, arrives later, providing spirited rhythmic support to the harmonic maelstrom. Its second half, however, is where things get really interesting. <\/p>\n<p>            After a brief moment of silence, Winter and Co. resume their country-tinged lament, but the rhythm is more methodical and contains a trace of swing. These undercurrents come to a head in the seven-minute song\u2019s final 90 seconds, when beloved jazz trumpeter <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jaimiebranch.com\/\">jaimie branch<\/a> joins the fray on flugelhorn, soaring above the mix to provide the song with a breathy and breathtaking finale. branch died Monday night at only 39 years old, and \u201cDayenu\u201d was the last recording of her incomparable playing released before her passing. It\u2019s a fine testament to her unmatched energy, a bright-burning flame she harbored within her heart and lungs until her final breath.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236055\" class=\"content_block paragraph video triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dayenu\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dJK9vFhqGF8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('236055');\n<\/script><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-236056\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/0IWgt0h2ZxDNV4iVMQaELL?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Raphael Helfand<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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