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Choice Cuts, Heavenly Notes
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Times of Acadiana (Lafayette, LA), Choice Cuts, Heavenly Notes >>
SAVAE: Ancient Echoes (World Library Publications) - Consider this latest album from the San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble the musical equivalent of old wine in old wineskins. Ecumenically subtitled "Music from the Time of Jesus and Jerusalem's Second Temple," it collects Aramaic prayers, Levitical music, and Essene chants, sets them to ancient melodies and instrumentation (ouds, guimbiris, kinnors, shabbabahs, rabbabahs, et. al), and painstakingly authenticates them in a CD booklet that's more textbook than libretto. Admittedly, not everyone will come to such a project equipped with ears to hear. Those willing to give this music the time it deserves, however, will not only find the mists of time dispersing but also the realization dawning that from the burnt-sienna cover art to the music's original-language lyrics, this album is the real soundtrack to The Passion of the Christ. Rating: Three-and-a-half Dead Sea Scrolls out of five. 06/30/04 >> go there
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