Mood Mix with Shlome Wechter 

He started out arranging music for producer Naftali Schnitzler, but today SHLOME WECHTER has moved on into his own niche as a mixing engineer. Shlome also sings in Shira Choir and records music in his own studio, and his fingerprints are on so many of the chassidish and heimishe releases over the past decade.

HOW I GOT STARTED

We were a big family, and, like most frum families, at some point, we got a keyboard. I think I was about eight years old then. A month later, no one else was looking at that keyboard anymore, but I never stopped playing.

MY MUSICAL MENTOR

At the very beginning, when I first started to work in music as a parnassah, I worked for Naftali Schnitzler for six years. I learned an unbelievable amount from being with him, and I’ll always be grateful.

WHAT I NEVER MISS SINGING ON FRIDAY NIGHT

I always sing the four zemiros that my father sang at his table: “Kol Mekadesh,” “Mah Yedidus,” “Menuchah Vesimchah,” and “Tzur Mishelo.” If the kids are in the mood, we sing some Yiddish songs, too. But usually, they’d rather play a game than sing.

A SONG THAT TOUCHED ME THE FIRST TIME I HEARD IT

The song “Miracles,” written by Yossi Green for RCCS in 2010, and more recently performed live by Meilech Braunstein and Shira Choir at an RCCS event last year  (“Hoping for a miracle, protect me from the storm, the clouds, the dark, a world of unknown….”). It was arranged by Shea Kaller and I did the mix. It really moved me, and I was almost crying when I worked on it.