Jordan Wax: New & Reimagined Songs of Yiddish Resistance

Name: Jordan Wax: New & Reimagined Songs of Yiddish Resistance
Start: 2025-01-09T18:45:00-05:00
Location: Homewood Friends Meeting, Baltimore

Schedule

Thu, 09 Jan, 2025 at 06:45 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Homewood Friends Meeting, Baltimore | Baltimore, MD

Jordan Wax is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and traditional musician based in New Mexico. For the past twenty-five years he has studied intergenerational music traditions with elders from a variety of cultural lineages in the Missouri Ozarks, Central Mexico, Ecuador, Northern New Mexico, and Greater Yiddishland, and directed his own collaborative ensembles in the context of Ashkenazi, Ozark, and Indo-Hispanic cultural revitalizations. Wax’s innovative compositions are rooted in his deep diasporic roots and friendships with elder musicians. Yiddish music has provided Wax with pathways to artistic continuity, vitality, and relevance which must be renewed in each generation through radical creativity and cross-cultural pollination.
His music resonates with reflections on climate collapse, perpetual war, the epidemic of abuse, the moral ambiguity of social media, and the complexities of cultural resistance and objectification in late-stage Capitalism. Wax’s debut album, The Heart Deciphers, set for release in January 2025, blends the sounds of klezmer/lautari ensembles from Moldova with rock aesthetics from the American Southwest.