Midrash's Night Dream

I met Alicia Jo Rabins, the violinist of Golem, last year in Basking Ridge, NJ and recently reconnected with her. (Much discussion of The Wire ensued; she's a Baltimore area native as well and no stranger to strangers.) Good timing as she's playing a free solo show at Rockwood Music Hall tomorrow night.

The reference points here are Appalachian, Eastern European, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sufjan Stevens, etc. Her 2003 Sugar Shack album gets a lot of autumnal play in my iPod. The following track is from a JDub Records compilation.

"Bat Yiftach"

Previously: The 70th Love Song