AlefBase

AlefBase
Gevolt - AlefBase - Front Cover
Studio album by Gevolt
Released March 25, 2011 (2011-03-25)
Recorded 2005-2010
Genre Folk/Industrial Metal
Yiddish metal
Length 49:26
Language Yiddish
Label Gevolt Productions
Producer Gevolt
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Metal Storm(8.9/10) [1]
Today's Metal (Bulgarian) [2]
Darkside.ru (Russian) [3]

AlefBase is the second album by the Israeli metal band Gevolt. Released on 25 March 2011, the album was a first full-length metal album in Yiddish language in history of music. All tracks are based on traditional and well-known Yiddish songs such as Tum Balalayke and Zog Nit Keyn Mol.

The album's genre declared as Yiddish Metal,[4] but listeners may to referred it to Neue Deutsche Härte.[5]

At 25 February 2011, before the official release date, the album was already available to download[6] for free. And it remained free for several years from the band's official web site.

The album has received many positive reviews in lots of online blogs, newspapers and radio stations in various languages. Such sources as an American newspaper The Forward and German Die Welt mentioned the new phenomenon of the Yiddish metal in their articles.[7] [8]

The track Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn from the album was featured in April by Music Alliance Pact.[9] Also the album entered in Top 4 Author's Torrents at March on bittorrent tracker Rutracker.org.[10]

At 2016 the album was accepted to the Freedman Jewish Sound Archive by Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania [11]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Hakdome"   0:32
2. "Trinken A Bisale Vayn"   3:13
3. "Der Rebe Elimelekh"   3:04
4. "Sha Shtil"   4:01
5. "Tum Balalayke"   3:37
6. "Shpil Zhe Mir A Lidele In Yiddish"   5:09
7. "Mayn Rue Plats (My Resting Place)"   5:09
8. "Zog Nit Keyn Mol"   4:06
9. "A Mol Iz Geven A Mayse"   4:40
10. "Sheyn Vi Di Levone"   3:18
11. "Bay Mir Bistu Sheyn"   4:30
12. "Tshiribim Tshiribom"   3:55
13. "Der Alefbeys"   3:34

Personnel

Band members

Guest musicians

Production

References

  1. "AlefBase", Metal Storm.
  2. "Gevolt - 2011 - Alef Base (review)"(Bulgarian), Today's Metal, 28 February 2011. Retrieved on 28 February 2011.
  3. "AlefBase (review)"(Russian), Darkside.ru, 9 March 2016. Retrieved on 9 March 2016.
  4. "Gevolt – Yiddish metal pioneer band", Virtual Shtetl, 19 May 2011. Retrieved on 19 May 2011.
  5. Dr. Kahn-Harris, Keith. "Yiddish-Speaking Vikings", Souciant, 20 April 2011. Retrieved on 20 April 2011.
  6. Gevolt. "Facebook post" Facebook, 25 February 2011. Retrieved on 25 February 2011
  7. Mehalel, Adi. "Gevolt - Industrial-Metal-Music in Yiddish"(Yiddish), Yiddish Forward, New-York, 1 July 2011. Retrieved on 1 July 2011.
  8. Borgstede, Michael. "Heavy-Metal-Songs auf Jiddisch"(German), Die Welt, 25 April 2011. Retrieved on 25 April 2011.
  9. "Music Alliance Pact – April 2011", Indieful Rok, 15 April 2011. Retrieved on 15 April 2011
  10. "Top authors torrents at March"(Russian), RuTracker.org. 16 April 2011. Retrieved on 16 April 2011
  11. "Look up album G-138(a)", Penn Libraries, 2016. Retrieved on 2016

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