the long short path, by marni loffman

the long short path

by marni loffman

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Maryam Phoenix Rhys Hope filled and very beautuful Favorite track: strong enough.

Batshua I’m sure this song is supposed to be about a breakup, but my longtime boyfriend died suddenly a couple of months ago and this is … a gift. Favorite track: strong enough.

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1.	ribon kol ha'olamim 06:24	buy track
2.	pray 01:54	buy track
3.	ev'tach 03:52	buy track
4.	strong enough 06:51	buy track
5.	anani 04:32	buy track
6.	busy brain 01:48	buy track
7.	tranquility 05:39	buy track
8.	tefilat haderech 05:20	buy track
9.	neshamah 04:51	buy track
10.	inner voice 01:55	buy track
11.	awaken 04:15	buy track
12.	this moment (stairwell version) 01:33	buy track

about

the long short path is a project focused on finding home in the journey. the album builds a sonic shelter for experiences of transition, change, and being in between. it weaves together rabbinic and liturgical texts with original lyrics, blending the musical modes of the ashkenazi nusach tradition of my childhood with american folk, neo-soul, pop, soft rock and more genres than i yet have the ethnomusicological knowledge to name.

the long short path was released in the jewish month of elul because this month is a unique time between beginnings and endings, a temporal place where it is easy to linger and hard to approach; we are often most and least comfortable in the in between.

during this season and in these songs, we find ourselves engaged in the lifelong work of confronting who we are, where we have been and where we are going. we remember that the journey never ends, and that life is a continual cycling of joy and sadness, pleasure and pain, leaving and returning. elul holds all these contradictions and helps us be at home in our own incompleteness. how can the music hold us through these changes? how can it mark ritual that illuminates the heaviness and radiance of transitions? how can it help us be well, help give us strength, perspective and beauty along the way?

credits

released August 17, 2023

marni loffman: musical and project director, producer, composer and vocalist
madeline rabin: vocals
rachel chang: guitar, vocals
aly halpert: vocals, keys
jeff weisz: bass
ezra sype: violin
suhail yusuf khan: sarangi
elliot beck: percussion
ryah lichtenstein: flute
don godwin: sound engineer, mixing
randy leroy: mastering
shmulie lowenstein: videography, video director
rena yehuda newman: album art and track list

thank you to beth am israel for generously hosting the recording in your building

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