“I had to pull over on the side of the road for 20 minutes because I felt like I was at the tish”
Slaking the post-Three-Weeks thirst for music, SHLOIME GERTNER’s newest album, VIZHNITZ INDERHEIM, transports listeners to some of the most special moments in the world of the Vizhnitz court.
“A friend called to tell me he played Vizhnitz Inderheim during a family road trip on vacation,” Gertner relates, “and he told me, ‘I had to pull over on the side of the road for 20 minutes because I felt like I was at the tish.’”
Some of the songs, such as the famous Vizhnitz Sixth Hakafah tune, are universally known, and help introduce the mainstream listener into the rich world of niggunim of the chassidus. “In der heim” [at home] has a double meaning, referring both to the fact that the songs are sung on Shabbos in Vizhnitz homes worldwide, and colloquially to their origins in prewar Vizhnitz.
In the fifth track, the “Lechtiger Shabbos Medley,” Gertner harmonizes to a child soloist — himself — as a 12-year-old singer on one of the Vizhnitz albums.
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