Album: Kumtanz 2 DVD
Composer: Shmuel Yefet
Year: 2014
It lay forgotten for eight years.
Composer and musician Shmuel Yefet wrote the hauntingly beautiful “Ke’ayol Taarog” —a song which has become a powerful niggun of inspiration around the world since its debut in 2014 — back in the summer of 2006 and all but forgot about it. But he says there’s the right time for everything.
“My friend [producer] Moishy Roth called me up and asked if I remembered the tune I’d composed for ‘Ke’ayol Taarog’ which I had played and recorded in his studio one day several years ago. He wanted to use it for the Kumtantz 2 performance which he was producing with the Menagnim orchestra.”
Yefet however flattered objected to the suggestion. “Look” he told his friend. “ ‘Ke’ayal Taarog’ is a quiet reflective song. It needs to be sung at a kumzitz not a kumtantz event.” But Roth overrode him.
“Believe me I know what I’m talking about. It’s the perfect finale song” he pleaded. Then came the clincher: “And Motty Steinmetz will sing it.”
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