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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.

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Truth be told, I probably should have written this before I played a show with him on Monday night, but regardless, it is never too late for me to tell you a little bit about my amazing friend (and sometime Wailing Wall contributor) Jason Anderson. Jason is a constant source of inspiration to me - he is the rare performer without a shred of self-consciousness, for whom every show is an opportunity to create a meaningful, positive experience for everyone lucky enough to attend. That almost always means Jason getting the audience to form a circle around him as he strums his guitar and leads them in a series of alternately tender and triumphant singalongs.

The experience that always pops out in my mind was a show we played together in March 2008 at a now-defunct vegan pizzeria on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Jason played for over two hours, covered at least two R. Kelly songs that I can remember, made up a song on the spot about how “pizza is awesome,” and then led everyone outside, where he crowdsurfed down first avenue. As a fan, it was an beautiful and invigorating thing to be a part of, and as a performer, it was a reminder that no matter what, I can and should 1408 video always give more of myself.

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Jason has a number of fantastic records available (under his own name and as “Wolf Colonel”) from K Records

; he also has a bunch of free albums for download at his website. He is also an accomplished humorist, responsible for this ridiculous record and this stroke of unspeakable genius.

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Since this is the JDub blog, why not start a tradition? Welcome to the very first installment of STEREOtype – a weekly feature in which I will ask someone awesome—musician, artist, media personality—about my favorite Jewish stereotypes, and how they relate to those.

This week, I got the chance to question K Records artist Mirah about her innate Jewyness (her real name is Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn) before her forthcoming record (a)spera drops in March

How many times a week do you speak to your Mother?
I’m not sure if I could count. Sometimes I get three messages in a row, always when I’m running out the door, sometimes in the middle of the night. Her messages are extremely long, often about complicated thoughts and ideas. Sometimes we’re both whirling around in identical ways and don’t get a chance to talk for a week at a time. Last night I called her because the Novocain from my earlier dentist appointment had just worn off and I was sad and in pain and wanted to talk to my mom. I talk to my dad several times a week. He’s easier to get ahold of.
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