Darkcho is an album of mystical Hasidic music, that sounds more like an indie folk rock album with tradition than what you would expect of a religious album. The music is very real, very meditative and very very human.
I stumbled on these songs when I was playing shows in Sydney, AU. It never got officially released and I couldn’t let the album not be heard, so i put together a digital release with a new painting by the singer, in order to ensure that the world hears it, aged in the barrels of Eastern European folklore and steeped in centuries of Jewish musical tradition. The album plays like a Tarantino soundtrack to the deepest, most spiritual moments of life; full of depth and style, antiquity and freshness.
The only words written anywhere on the physical copy were by the artists and read, “These songs collected here belong to the Jewish people. They originate from holiness. They speak of self nullification and redemption, the need for healing and discovering the depths of the Holy One Blessed Be He in this world and the next. We take no recognition for any part of the material, lest the actual performing of the music itself.” This particular melody is usually sung without words. But the ChassidReb Aharon Charitonov, a slaughterer in Nikolayev, Ukraine, one of the famous composers of Chabad melodies, would sing this tune to the words of this poem recited in the Yom Kippur evening prayers.
Translation; “Indeed, as the clay in the hand of the potter, who, when he wishes expands it and when he wishes contracts it; so are we in Your hand, O You who remembers deeds of the loving kindness; Look to the covenant and do not regard our evil inclination.”
Check out the full ‘Darkcho’ album at http://bancs.bandcamp.com.