Nicholas Weininger, Empire City Men’s Chorus, Vince Peterson - All is Mere Breath (2023) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Weininger Hakol Hevel (All Is Mere Breath) I. Overture
02. Weininger Hakol Hevel (All Is Mere Breath) II. How she sits alone
03. Weininger Hakol Hevel (All Is Mere Breath) III. The words of Qohelet
04. Weininger Hakol Hevel (All Is Mere Breath) IV. Like foxes among the ruins
05. Weininger Hakol Hevel (All Is Mere Breath) V. My God, my God
06. Weininger Hakol Hevel (All Is Mere Breath) VI. Interlude - Turning
07. Weininger Hakol Hevel (All Is Mere Breath) VII. Look, my servant
08. Weininger Hakol Hevel (All Is Mere Breath) VIII. Send out your bread upon the waters
09. Weininger Hakol Hevel (All Is Mere Breath) IX. Hear this, you elders
10. Weininger Hakol Hevel (All Is Mere Breath) X. Coda - Oseh Shalom

In the throes of lockdown, Nicholas Weininger found himself reflecting on this Hebrew verse; what is the nature of our collective life sustained on if not breath and breath alone? It was a breath robbed and convoluted during the COVID-19 pandemic: the ravaged breath of the afflicted, the fear of coming too close to the breath of another. Our world seemed to pause and take a breath, busy city streets gone barren amid our collective anxieties.

Debuted and recorded by the Empire City Men’s Chorus, ALL IS MERE BREATH asks us to question the nature of our changed society in the thought of mere breath alone, and offers us refuge in the breath of song, perhaps, now and then, the purest form of it.

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