Rabbi Shloime Taussig’s second EP collection, 5 KOLOS #2, hit the shelves and the streaming platforms on Rosh Chodesh Elul
Rabbi Shloime Taussig’s second EP collection, 5 KOLOS #2, hit the shelves and the streaming platforms on Rosh Chodesh Elul, and he’s glad that, after his precedent-setting EP came out in February 2022, other singers in the frum music world have also been using the format.
“After my first 5 Kolos EP was released, I got a lot of calls from singers who wanted to know if I minded if they did the same,” Rabbi Taussig says. “Of course I don’t mind. I would love people to copy it and make it the norm. It’s like the takanah packages that have been around forever and that have come back into style so strongly in today’s economy. I mean, if you have the money to produce a full album, great, but EPs are a more affordable idea.”
Rabbi Taussig has been singing professionally for 21 years, and has been at the forefront of some developments in the industry. His “(Bum bum bum) Lashem Haaretz Umloah,” composed and sung together with Yitzchak Fuchs, was one of the trendsetting singles in the frum music market to be released by a wedding singer. (It sold for $1.99 in Mostly Music’s brick-and-mortar store.) His early hit singles were followed by others, some more popular, some that he felt fell between the cracks in a crowded market. The more substantial EP format is a little harder to get lost.
This is the second EP produced by Eli Klein and Yitzy Berry. (“Of course I went back to them,” he says. “We clicked like family.”) In fact, the first track on the album — “B’chesed Uv’rachmim,” from the first paragraph of Bircas Hamazon — was composed by the pair at Rabbi Taussig’s Shabbos table.
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