The Sway Machinery | The Dream Past: A Sonic Conjuring
25.06.2024 - 20:00 / Museum of Engineering and Technology, ul. św. Wawrzyńca 15The Sway Machinery
The Dream Past: A Sonic
Once upon a time there was a certain kind of person in the world that perhaps no longer exists—a Jewish sacred artist called a khazn (cantor) whose music was beloved in the pre-Holocaust Yiddish-speaking Jewish world and whose voice was prized as a representation of the community. Khazones (the music of the khazn) was both a form of ritual and a popular art form sung in theaters and captured on records that sold to a mass audience.
The Sway Machinery has long tapped the potential of khazones as the basis for social music.
The Dream Past – The Sway Machinery latest high-wire act, will plunge into the live davening archive, presenting lost gems of Jewish expressive culture in radically recontextualized form.
The Dream Past extends the band’s long running project of cantorial revival—excavating the otherworldly potentials of Jewish sacred music and lost melodies to instigate a party, break boundaries between communities, and touch the past.
The Sway Machinery
Jeremiah Lockwood – guitar and voice
Yuli Yael Be’eri - bass and voice
John Bollinger – drums
Stuart Bogie - saxophone
Kerry Warren – trumpet
Tickets (N: 130 / U: 80 PLN) available at 33.jewsihfestival.pl and one hour before the concert at the entrance to the venue.
LOT Polish Airlines and Museum of Engineering and Technology are Partners of the 33rd JCF.
