Indie Jewish music from the 1950s to the 1970s and pop-up record shop in San Francisco!
“Songs For The Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story 1950-1973” is a new compilation celebrating the indie Jewish record label that raged in the latter half of the last century. Tikva had an eclectic roster, cranking out everything from Israeli folk and klezmer to cantorial singing, Catskills comedy, political spoken word, and 60s rock from the Jewish diaspora. And then, it all disappeared. Not willing to let this bit of music, and Jewish, history vanish into the lost record crates of history, my pal David Katznelson and his co-conspirators at the non-profit Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation curated this collection of the best of Tikva.
Somewhere between superb and surreal. Make sure to listen to the embedded track (“Ho Yaldonet”).