Welcome to Occasions Will Inform, The Occasions of Israel’s weekly function podcast.
This week we’re talking to Shani and Yahala Lachmish, a pair of sisters who’re musicians, singers and composers, and have been singing onstage for many of their lives.
The Lachmish sisters discuss their band, Tandu, a unfastened translation from the Aramaic time period for togetherness, which just lately launched its first album, “Savtuna,” named for his or her great-grandmother, the non secular beacon of their household.
Their music is a mixture of kinds, with preparations of falafel jazz, liturgical music courtesy of their cantor father, soul and world music. The sisters speak in regards to the inspiration for his or her music, together with their father and grandmothers, the musical worlds in Israel and what it took for them to lastly recognize their father’s age-old piyyutim, or liturgical poems set to tune.
In addition they sing some choices from their album, in an impromptu a cappella model, throughout the podcast.
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