A perfect reflection of the artist’s own personality, an offering of music on an altar of earth — simple, organic, and emotional
YITZCHAK FUCHS couldn’t have chosen a better name for his newly released album, MIZBACH ADAMA. It’s a perfect reflection of the artist’s own personality, an offering of music on an altar of earth — simple, organic, and emotional. Fuchs, a veteran musician perhaps best known in the frum world for “Bum bum bum … L’Hashem ha’aretz umeloah…” and the “Menucha Vesimcha” sung by MBD on Kisufim, is actually a retired silversmith who lives in the Shivtei Yisrael neighborhood of Jerusalem. He released his first album back in 1985, and Mizbach Adama is his sixth.
“No one else’s hands have touched the music on this album,” he confides. “No mixer, no arranger, no recording engineer.”
Yitzchak explains that while “the songs come down to me as a gift from Above,” he remembers the melodies, plays and records them in his home studio, then adds additional instrumentals to enhance the songs. It’s an organic artistic process on which he chooses to work alone, letting the music to speak for itself.”
Yitzchak lived in America for a period of his life (where he composed “Boro Park”), but he’s clearly happy to be back in Jerusalem, where he says everything is more inspirational and more real — and that alone nurtures creativity.
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