Basya Schechter Mixes Prayer Songs With Brass, Oud, and Radiohead
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Basya Schechter Mixes Prayer Songs With Brass, Oud, and Radiohead

2014-09-29
Growing up in a Hasidic community, Basya Schechter heard music all around her—not rock music or even folk—but religious nigguns, or tunes. There were the zmirot–songs sung after Sabbath meals; the communal singing at Hanukkah; the prayers recited in unison in holiday liturgies. In her late teens, Schechter abandoned that world and its music. After college, she traveled extensively through the Middle East and North Africa and learned to play instruments from the region like the darbuka and o...
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