Ayelet Rose Gottlieb’s 13 Lunar Meditations: Summoning the Witches
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2022
THE ROUNDHOUSE | 181 ROUNDHOUSE MEWS | Google Map Doors at 7:00PM | Concert starts at 7:30PM (PDT)
Featuring:
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, vocals
Jay Clayton, vocals
DB Boyko conducting the Choeur Luna (Killian Benson, Viviana Caro, Laura Crema, Soressa Gardner, Mark Parlett, Carol Sawyer, Andrea Superstein and Oliver Swain)
Eylem Basaldi, Turkish violin
Meredith Bates, violin
Aram Bajakian, guitar
Stéphane Diamantakiou, upright bass
Ivan Bamford, drums
I feel like the idea of the “witches” is about community. It’s about inviting the presence of others and not shying away from our bizarre sides, from our energetic sides, from the parts of ourselves that can communicate with the other realms.
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
“This is an offering to you in sound and beyond: a pebble toss to ripple in your heart.” (Ayelet Rose Gottlieb)
When Ayelet Rose Gottlieb first started writing 13 Lunar Meditations: Summoning the Witches, she invited girls and women from around the world to choose the multilingual and multicultural poetry. Then she wrote an album of lunar-inspired music filled with intoxicating vocals and powerful instrumental lines that illuminate love and loss, mysticism and motherhood.
Featuring jazz legend Jay Clayton and Ayelet herself on vocals, the 13 songs tell epic and relatable stories from around the globe. And with an improv choir led by DB Boyko and thrilling players from across Canada, 13 Lunar Meditations invites you to embrace your quirky, energetic, and – dare we say – witchy sides.
It’s musical poetry for your ears. One night only.
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, 2015 Yare’ah
Words by Nathan Alterman, Chosen by Rachel Gottlieb (Jerusalem, Israel)
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, 2015 Venus and the Moon
Words by Bes Davies (Darwin, Australia)
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, 2015 Lotte & the Moon
Words by Anna Smaill, (Aukland, New Zealand)
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, 2015 Mond
Words by Naomi Deslex (Basel, Switzerland)
IMAGINE A MAMMOTH, GLOWING PEARL
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, 2015 Moon Story
Words by Katie Bull (Hudson Valley, USA)
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, 2015 Yasmoon’s Moon / L’Kamar
Words by L’Kamar by Malika Zarra, (Casablanca, Morocco); Yasmoon’s Moon by Yasmin, Maor and Maia Levavi (Montreal, Canada)
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, 2015 Patience Words by Sems-i Tebrizi, Chosen by Nihan Devecioglu (Turkey)
I RETURN THE SKY TO ITS MOTHER, WHEN FOR THE MOTHER THE SKY CRIES
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb & DB Boyko, 2018 Dissipating Discus
Words: fragments of writings by Birdie Lawson (USA), Franny Silverman (USA), Shelly Mehari (Israel) Sara Serpa (Portugal), Sofia Rei (Argentina), Mary McLoud Watson (New Zealand), The Fumigation from Aromatic (chosen by Georgia Spiropoulos, Greece), Anat Fort (Israel)
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, 2018 Luna
Words by Sofìa Réi (Argentina)
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, 2018 Moon Over Gaza
Words: Moon Over Gaza by Naomi Shihab Nye (Palestine / USA); Almost Summer by Ayelet Rose Gottlieb (Israel / Canada); I Come From There by Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine) Translated from Arabic by Anton Shammas from “The Bed of the Stranger,” Chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye
LIKE AN OLD LOVER AT THE EDGE OF MEMORY
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, 2015 Tsuki
Words by Kyoko Kitamura (Japan / USA)
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, 2015 Traveler Woman
by Gem Salsberg (Canada)
Ayelet Rose Gottlieb, 2015 Desert Moon
by Shelly Mehari (Israel)
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