Libabtini
A heart offering
2001
The recording features love songs from the fifties like “Yatzanu At” or French songs like “Ahava bat Esrim,” the yearning of Rabbi Y. ha Levi to return to Zion (“Zion haLo Tishali”), children’s songs about Israel (“Amisrael”), about our love for the land of our ancestors (“Eretz, Eretz”) or a medley of famous songs for Israel’s Independence Day (“Zemer Lakh-Shibolet baSade-laMidbar”). It also includes optimistic songs like “Ten Li,” “Shir Hadash,” “Shiru Shir Amen” and true prayers like N. Shemer’s “Al Col Ele.” Ramón has composed a specially beautiful setting of “Libabtini” (You have enraptured my heart), romantic excerpt extracted from the Song of Songs.
CREDITS
Ramón Tasat
Director, voice, guitar, vocal and instrumental arrangements
Steve Bloom
Percussion and drums
Ramón González
Electric bass
Natasha Jitomirskaia
Piano, piano arrangements (# 4, 7, 10, 12)
César Lerner
Piano, synthesizers, piano and instrumental arrangements (# 2, 5, 6, 8,
9, 13)
Janice Martin
Violin
Alfred Williams
Flute, tenor sax
Gantt Mann Kushner
Electric guitar (# 1)
Andy Hamburger
Drums (# 1)
Producer: Ramón Tasat
Associate producer: Cliff Braverman
Recording and mixing: Gizmo Recording Company/Estudio Aguilar
Sound engineer: Gantt Mann Kushner/Mario Altamirano
Mastering: Wolf Productions Inc.
Cover design: Rosana Azar
Hebrew Title: Rachel Braun
Layout and design: Robert B. Lovato, Sound Recorders Inc., Austin, Texas