Nathan Salsburg - Psalms - New LP Record 2021 No Quarter Vinyl - Folk

1.	Psalm 147 03:51
	2.	Psalm 19
	3.	Psalm 47
	4.	Psalm 90
	5.	Psalm 33
	6.	Eili, Eili + Psalm 42 06:24
	7.	Psalm 104
	8.	O' You Who Sleep + Psalm 96
	9.	Psalm 111

Psalms is a collection of new arrangements of Hebrew psalms—Tehillim—composed between 2016 to 2019, and recorded in their entirety, somehow, over the long course of 2020. The project was born of a desire for some kind of rigorous and creative Jewish engagement, which came to take shape in the irregular practice of opening a bilingual Book of Psalms at random, scanning the English (I don’t speak and can only haltingly read Hebrew) of a particular chapter for passages that resonated conceptually and emotionally, and scanned rhythmically. Copying those selections over to a separate page, I worked to thread them into new melodies with the ultimate intention of making them satisfactorily singable. The nine fragments of discrete psalms that comprise this record* were those I regarded as the most successful efforts, by which I mean most pleasing to sing and to play. May listeners find them similarly pleasing to listen to, and perhaps even to sing and play themselves.

releases August 20, 2021

Performed by Noa Babayof, David Brook, Stephen Burns, Jean Cook, Jacob Duncan, James Elkington, Nick Macri, Will Oldham, Nathan Salsburg, Joan Shelley, and Spencer Tweedy.