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All Our Departed (El Malei Rachamim)

by Daniela Gesundheit

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All Our Departed (El Malei Rachamim) is a traditional Jewish prayer sung at funerals and on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It wishes for ease and peace for the recently gone. To sing it on the Day of Atonement is a way to reflect on our own mortality while remembering all of the unrepeatable prizes that we have known, admired, and lost. The aching, soaring melody strikes me as a broken cry that seems to disintegrate and evaporate as it is being sung. This version is a melody inspired by Cantor Josef Rosenblatt. It is appropriate for people facing all gradations of grief and transition.

All Our Departed is the first single off of the album Alphabet of Wrongdoing -- Ceremonial Jewish prayers and blessings encircling themes of reckoning, forgiveness, mortality, striving, and atonement, reimagined for secular audiences and secular spaces. Both the album and the performances are investigations of communal gestures of forgiveness — attempts to ”Restore dignity to experience through music…” (poet Alan Felsenthal)

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El maley rachamim
Shocheyn bam'romim
Ham'tzey menucha nechona
Tachat kanfey ha'schechinah
Im kedoshim, kedoshim u'tehorim
K'zohar harakiyah mazhirim
L'nishmot yakireynu shehalechu l'olamam
Ba'al harachamim yastirem b'seter k'nafav
L'olamim
V'yitzror bitzror hachayim et-nishmatam
V'yitzror, v'yitzror bitzror hachayim
v'yitzror bitzror hachayim
et-nishmatam
YHVH hu nachalatam
V'yanuchu b'shalom al mishkavam
V'nomar : amen

God, filled with compassion
Grant complete repose to the souls
Of all those we are remembering today
Sheltered by Your divine wings
May they join the company
Of the holy and pure
Who shine as bright as heaven
Bring their souls
Into the bond of life that
With You as their portion
They may rest in peace
Amen

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released October 4, 2019
Produced by Daniela Gesundheit
Performed by Daniela Gesundheit, Johnny Spence, and Evan Cartwright
Mixed by Steve Kaye at Sunking Studios in Los Angeles
Recorded by Dan Goldman in Montréal, Leon Taheny at Boombox studio in Toronto, Nicolas Pétrowski at Mixart in Montréal
Mastered by David Travers-Smith at found.sound
Photo by Dawn Garcia
Layout by Brankica Harvey and Ken Deegan

Recorded with the assistance of a Canada Council for the Arts / Conseil des arts du Canada Concept to Realization Grant. 

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Daniela Gesundheit Los Angeles, California

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Daniela Gesundheit is a vocalist, composer, and cantor who lives in LA and haunts Toronto. As Snowblink, Gesundheit writes non-denominational devotional pop music and has released three critically acclaimed albums.

"Daniela’s voice is like clear glass that she frames a kind of playful, velvet privacy with. The sounds are sparse but so rich and carefully wild." Leslie Feist ... more

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