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The Wailing Wall Talks to The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post recently interviewed Jesse Rifkin on the Wailing Wall and reviewed his new album, The Low Hanging Fruit.
Within the mellifluous chords of The Wailing Wall’s indie music, we hear the discord of a ukulele jamming with a guitar, a trumpet vying for airtime with a bass, and a harmonium and pipe organ on stage with a trash can. This beautiful, organic pandemonium again puts us in touch with the creative origins of Jewish prayer.
That’s Jewish rebellion at its best. That’s real ‘bad.’
The Wailing Wall Live Videos
Today The Jewish Channel was at the JDub office filming an interview with The Wailing Wall. Jesse performed a few songs, including “Nails and Wood” (above) and a new one (after the break). Read More »
Ladies & Gentlemen… The Wailing Wall
The Wailing Wall - Hospital Blossom
The Wailing Wall - Sister, I
The Wailing Wall - Nails and Wood
JDub is proud to welcome The Wailing Wall to our roster! We know everyone loves free music and discovering new artists, so we are releasing his debut LP Hospital Blossom for FREE on June, 9th.
The Wailing Wall is 23 year old multi-instrumentalist and ex-theology major Jesse Rifkin. Born in Los Angeles, Jesse was raised in Annapolis, MD and now resides in New York City. Hospital Blossoms is The Wailing Wall’s first full length LP, and his first release for JDub Records.
The Wailing Wall is a solo project that fluctuates between 1 and 38 members, sometimes including K Records’ Jason Anderson
, So So Glos’ Matt Elkin and Thanksgiving’s Adrian Orange. Jesse likes to invite any and all musicians and curious onlookers within earshot to join him in the studio or on stage. The Wailing Wall’s DIY community creates a certain vibrancy that stems from Jesse’s belief that a band’s spirit only burns as brightly as the sum of its parts.
Hospital Blossoms is a narrative about the search for spiritual meaning and fulfillment. It contains a patchwork of simultaneously scratchy and lovely sounds: banjo, fretless bass, glockenspiel, gamelan, grand piano, viola, harmonium, girls laughing, trumpet, drums, shakers, hand-clapping and knee-slapping. Jesse recorded the album across 3 states and on a variety of recording machines with different fidelities. The very first sounds heard on the album are lifted from a field recording of a thunderstorm outside a boathouse in Stone Lake, Wisconsin—a location Jesse sought out to record the majority of Hospital Blossoms. Jesse and friends pieced together the rest of the record between a workshop theatre, a dingy basement and a Colonial mansion converted into a college music building.
We don’t want commerce to get in the way of you hearing a record this good, so we’re giving it away for FREE. Listen to Hospital Blossoms, pass it along to your friends, and be on the lookout for more great things from Jesse Rifkin and The Wailing Wall.
The Wailing Wall
Hospital Blossom
LP
FREE download available June 9th
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The Wailing Wall 7″ for sale
So Much New Music to Buy, Where to Start!!
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are excited for the new releases dropping this week; Clay Aiken, Leonard Cohen, Diana Krall, Keith Urban and much more unenjoyable bellowing. What’s really good is the insane amount of releases and pre-orders coming from JDub Records, the very blog you are reading right now. See below for some must have records this month.
Balkan Beat Box - Nu Made (Remixes) Myspace
Dance-floor ready remix album with stand out remixes from Nickodemus, Soulico, Dub Gabriel & more. Available on CD ($7.99) and LP ($11.99) Also, BBB’s dynamic 2nd album, Nu Med is now available on vinyl. Grab it for only $9.99
Balkan Beat Box - Adir Adirim (Nickodemus Remix)
The Sway Machinery - Hidden Melodies Revealed Myspace
Indie supergroup featuring members of BBB, Yeah Yeah Yeah, Antibalas and Arcade Fire. Available on CD ($7.99), LP ($9.99) and the CD+LP combo ($17.99) All pre-orders come with free button and poster!
The Sway Machinery - Tell it all to me
SoCalled - The SoCalled Seder Myspace
Mini hip-hop symphony using break-beats and Jewish samples to re-create Passover Seder. Special Low Passover price of $6.99 or buy 2 for $12 or go for the gold and scoop up the Afikomen Prize Pack which includes the Seder, SoCalled - Ghettoblaster and Golem Citizen Boris for only $17.99
SoCalled - Who Knows One
The Wailing Wall - 7″ Myspace
Grab this limited release yellow 7″ from very recent JDub signing, The Wailing Wall. Freak-folk at its best led by musical mastermind Jesse Rifkin and his traveling band of musicians. Only $5 for the 7”
The Wailing Wall - For my Baby Brother
The Wailing Wall - Hospital Blossoms LP FREE Download
The Wailing Wall
Hospital Blossoms LP
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The Wailing Wall, as it appears on this record, is:
Luke Bace – bass, sound effects
Holly Fulton – viola, grand piano
Alixandra Macmillan-Feidel – vocals
Natalie Mirsky – accordion, vocals
Taylor Pavlik – trumpet
Jesse Rifkin – vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, banjo, harmonica, harmonium, accordion, electric piano, glockenspiel, violin scratches, drums, shakers, tambourine, wood block, field recording of gamelan musicians
Chris Roush – drums, cajon, darbouka, bass synth, shakers, vocals, sound effects, field recording of a thunderstorm outside the boathouse
Recorded by Chris Roush at the Boathouse in Stone Lake, WI and at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, except for “Floral Park,” “No Wind,” and “Morning #2,” which were recorded by Jesse Rifkin at his parents’ house in Annapolis, MD (Chris added all sorts of awesome sounds to “Morning #2” later on though).
Mixed by Chris Roush. Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper.
All songs copyright Jesse Rifkin, 2006-2007.