Shalshelet
2006

The shalshelet (“chain”) note is one of the rarest cantillations in the system of melodic motifs for chanting the books of the Torah aloud. Found only four times in the Five Books of Moses, each time it guides the singing of a verb at a pivotal moment in the narrative. Shalshelet’s International Festival of New Jewish Liturgical Music recognizes and awards excellence in new liturgical composition. The public concert and related workshops which are held throughout the year are supplemented by songbooks and CDs which allow the composers to share their music with individuals and congregations across the nation and around the world (…). + INFO

Yom She Kulo Shabbat
A Road to Paradise
2006

We welcome the Sabbath singing zemirot, songs and praises to the Creator of the Universe. We gain much pleasure from singing, we ease the excessive baggage, the disharmonious things that we have accumulated during the past six days and thus, we feel closer to our essence. + INFO

Kantikas de amor i vida
2005

So many of us who survived the Holocaust had one thing in common… our silence. But as we grew older, we began to feel the need to share our pain and memories with the world. (...) + INFO

Shalshelet
2005

This CD represents a milestone in the life of our vibrant new organization, Shalshelet. With the hard work and dedication of many talented people, the first International Festival of New Jewish Liturgical Music became a reality (…). + INFO

Arvoles lloran por luvia
The music of the Italian, Turkish and Spanish Jews
1996 / 2005

In this unusual release Ramón Tasat has recorded melodies from the Sephardic tradition by three talented and yet hardly known composers: Manuel García Morante, Alberto Hemsi and Federico Consolo. + INFO

Como la rosa en la güerta
Tales from the Spanish Knights
2003

Ramon Tasat joins Scott Reiss and Tina Chancey of Hesperus to perform the rich musical traditions of three cultures, recalling the Golden Age of medieval Spain, when Jews, Moors and Christians shared a life of unprecedented religious and social tolerance. + INFO

Teshuva
Liturgical selections for the Days of Awe
2003

In October 2002, Mogui, César and I, three good friends who had not seen each other for 15 years, got together and decided to try our hand at recording some traditional Jewish High Holiday prayers (…).+ INFO

Cantata Ebraica
2003

These are rarely heard melodies from Livorno, Rome and Florence collected through oral tradition by musicologist Leo Levi, among others, and later transcribed and harmonized for singers and instruments by Ramón Tasat. + INFO

Mi Tuv Nehorakh
The abundance of Your light
2002

This recording features songs composed for different Jewish texts, arranged and performed by Norma Brooks and Ramón Tasat, accompanied by a choir and several instrumentalists. + INFO

Libabtini
A heart offering
2001

The musical arrangements of all the songs included in this recording are new. Ramón’s voice is enhanced by percussion, electric bass, piano, synthesizers, violin, flute, tenor sax and electric guitar. + INFO

Fiesta Sefarad
1998

This CD gathers diverse melodies from Spain, Morocco, Greece, Iraq and Israel. The selection features examples of secular tunes assimilated to liturgical texts, songs of praise, traditional melodies and paraliturgical songs. + INFO

Zemirot and Piyutim
Songs of praise and liturgical poems for the Jewish holidays
1995

This album celebrates the music of the High Holidays opening new horizons from Rosh ha Shana through Simhat Torah. Its arrangements have been conceived for a chamber ensemble of keyboard, guitar, violin, voice and flute. + INFO