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Bloodsnow

by Yotam Haber

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1.
Yotam Haber and Talea - Bloodsnow 11:31
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Talea, Taylor Ward - They Say You Are My Disaster: I. Schnitzel 04:56
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I. Schnitzel I am separating the breast into pieces, sharpening a knife, Removing sinew fats cartilage Turning the slice over cutting spreading straightening I sense the incision of the lymph nodes, underneath the armpit, And a bit of the incision in the “breast tail” and at “twelve o’clock” Imagining how they sliced my own breast On the operating table. First they cut open the nodes, I think, To take out a sample for examination, a swift sharp incision in the skin And underneath red muscles and blood and a quivering lump. I am removing a long white sinew I’m naked, covered by a sheet up to my bosom, And then a long incision upwards, bursts out red wide open. I’m removing one more sinew from the flesh of the breast With a scalpel they scrabble inside me with fingers in gloves I’m flattening the meat on a cutting board flattening it further with a hammer I tend and clean, slice by slice. Slowly and calmly, very concentrated, and all there is Is to decide: bread crumbs or matza meal. © Translation: 2006, Rachel Yakobovitch
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They Say You Are My Disaster: II. Oh, My Bank 05:54
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II. Oh My Bank Oh my bank screw me you want to screw me good and not some tycoon you don’t want no tycoon, yeah yeah yeah, oh my bank you want to screw me good and not some bad tycoon, with tycoons you sit down to lunch at a fancy restaurant* and eat shrimp in a cheerful sauce but with me there are fireworks and desires a lot of Thanatos and it’s well known this is how life goes Oh brothers! Take no notice of me and who I am whose work is writing poems for whom for those eating in a fancy restaurant who have hands with married fingers that sign time cards, bearing the economy on all your shoulders oh on the way to a demonstration against tycoons and platonic relations with the bank I see you in a tapas bar eating carne and my flesh is hollow and the sign I carry remains erect like a penis on Viagra, you are my disaster on the way to the anti-war demonstration Oh you guys! Those who want to make money oh those who want to get rich and those who want to spend and those who want to eat and then create aches on elegant bicycles, and those who want to wear button down shirts and those who want to wear suits and those who make meteoric careers and those who are written about and she who’s excited to enter the first class compartment and those who love veined white marble, and those who know what money can do and are silent Oh my bank screw me and I’ll carry out a suicide bombing in the lobby after I whisper semek ars* and nothing will happen screw me into five years of installments on signed documents and then I’ll go out into the sunshine to the street after a rape that is not recognized by the authorities oh! No policewoman will save me and no women’s organization for peace and no animal aid society © Translation: 2016, Lisa Katz *In the original poem, Frosh twice identifies the restaurant as that of a famous Israeli chef, Eyal Sheni. "Semek ars" is slang, an angry exclamation used in Hebrew that is composed of several Arabic curse words ("coos emek" and "ars") run together and abbreviated.
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Don-Paul Kahl, Yotam Haber - Resistance 10:24
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American Wild Ensemble, Yotam Haber - Chòref/Winter Study 08:08
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Bloodsnow is a world premiere recordings of four recent works by composer Yotam Haber. The title track refers to Haber's severed finger while dogsledding on the Denali Highway, Alaska, in winter of 2019.

Winner of many prizes and honors, including a Koussevitzky commission for the Library of Congress, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize, Haber has also recently been named a Fulbright Distinguished Senior Fellow in 2023-24 at the Jerusalem Academy. Bookended by works inspired by experiences Haber had in the wilds of Alaska, the album also includes a set of two songs and a work for solo saxophone. Performers include the Talea Ensemble, the American Wild Ensemble, baritone Taylor Ward and saxophonist Don-Paul Kahl.

This album is made possible through the generous support of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, The Adele and John Gray Endowment Fund, and the Elizabeth Noble Fund.

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released September 22, 2023

Talea Ensemble
Taylor Ward
American Wild Ensemble
Don-Paul Kahl

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Yotam Haber Kansas City, Missouri

Yotam Haber was born in Holland and grew up in Israel, Nigeria, and Milwaukee. He is a recipient of a 2022 commission from Chamber Music America, 2008 Rome Prize Fellow, 2005 Guggenheim Fellow. Winner of the 2021 Azrieli Prize, 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2023-24 Fulbright Distinguished Senior Fellow, and numerous international grants and fellowships. www.yotamhaber.com ... more

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