Name:
Marmer, Jake

Songs written or composed

Forefather

Author:
Marmer, Jake
Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:
Direction/Guilt/Reflection/Introspection/Inheritance
Origin:
Ephemera 1379
Related information in folder 1379:
Comments:
1. 3/19/2014 Text of poem by Jake Marmer published in The New Vilna Review and posted on the internet and entered in Ephemera on March 19, 2014

Recording

On album:
M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:
39652
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
Directions were precise (who else could spin your compass like a roulette)…

Facts

Author:
Marmer, Jake
Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Poetry
Subject:
Introspection/Existence/Sleeplessness/Hardass
Origin:
Alb M-132(a)

Recording

On album:
M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:
39651
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
With many crumbs and a puddle of someone else's drink, the Starbucks table…
Language:
English
Style:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Bathhouse of Dreams

Author:
Marmer, Jake
Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Poetry
Subject:
Grecian Bathhouse/Washing/Dreams/Hellinism/Assimilation/
Origin:
Marmer 14

Recording

On album:
M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:
39653
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
In Aphrodite's bathhouse in Akko, Proklos ben Plosphos asked Rav Gamliel:…
Language:
English
Style:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Mishnah of Visions

Author:
Marmer, Jake
Genre:
Literaary origin/Spoken Word/Poetry
Subject:
Sightless/Smell/Truth/Soul/Lies/Vision
Origin:
Marmer 11

Recording

On album:
M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:
39654
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
Rav Iver was born blind, but got around having exquisitely sharpened his sense..
Language:
English
Style:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Klezmer Bulldog

Author:
Marmer, Jake
Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word Poetry
Subject:
Klezmer/Bulldog/Persecution/Rape/Eastern Europe
Origin:
Marmer 54
Additional song notes:
Klezmer Music Background

Recording

On album:
M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:
39655
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
Klezmer bulldog with accordion folds on his face somewhere in these folds…
Language:
English
Style:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Rachmones Blues

Author:
Marmer, Jake
Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Poetry
Subject:
Mercy/CompassonTruck/Vegetables
Origin:
Marmer 80

Recording

On album:
M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:
39656
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
I know a little woman, she got a truck full of rachmones, yeah, a truck full…
Language:
English
Style:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Mishnah of Lonliness

Author:
Marmer, Jake
Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word/Poetry
Subject:
Loneliness/Commentary/Hillel/Shammai/Nudniks/God's Absence
Origin:
Marmer 17

Recording

On album:
M-132(a) (Jake Marmer / Hermeneutic Stomp)
Track ID:
39657
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
There are three types of lonliness in the world: green red and purple.
Language:
English
Style:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Mishnah of Silence

Author:
Marmer, Jake
Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:
Silence/Laws/ommentary/Expression/Minyan/Inarticulation
Origin:
Marmer 18

The Laws of Dream-Cooking

Author:
Marmer, Jake
Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:
Dream/2000 Years/History/Individuals/Solidiity/Zionist
Origin:
Marmer 13
Additional song notes:
After Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 145B

Winter Sketch

Author:
Marmer, Jake
Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:
Mood/Song/Guitar Strings/Notes/
Origin:
Marmer 51

Recording

On album:
M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:
39661
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
Mood ripples like a puddle with a building inside, windows popping widening…
Language:
English
Style:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Dealings

Author:
Marmer, Jake
Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:
Snow/New York/Kiev/Cards/Atlantic City/Reading
Origin:
Marmer 45

Recording

On album:
M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:
39662
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
Every few years when it snows really hard in New York someone inevitably…
Language:
English
Style:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Rakhnomes Blues

Author:
Marmer, Jake
Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:
Mercey/Compassion/Truck/Vegetables/Beneficiary
Origin:
Marmer 80
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Other tracks with this artist

Root-Note Nigun

Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Subject:
Stick Figure/Abstraction/Painting/Existence/Imagination
Origin:
Album M-132(a)
On album:
M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:
39658
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
This nigun is about a stick figure and the wind over canvas that bared it.
Language:
English
Style:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Crossroads

On album:
M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:
39660
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
"There's no cooking after coocking:" once a dream has been in the oven for…
Language:
English
Style:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word

Amphibian Night

Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:
Text Not Available
On album:
M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:
39663
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
Needle, threads, nothingness, tons of it, transparence, slices of ice thrust…
Language:
English
Style:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:
3:55

3: A.M. Nigun

Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:
Text Not Available
On album:
M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:
39664
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
She sang, as if looking through the magnifying glass, lullabies every…
Language:
English
Style:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:
3:16

3: A.M. Nigun (alt take)

Genre:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Additional song notes:
Text Not Available
On album:
M-123(a) (Miracles Made/ Hits Collection — נסים גרמה / אוסף להימים)
Track ID:
39665
Vocal:
Marmer, Jake
Sax/Clarinet:
Wall, Greg
Trumpet:
London, Frank
Keys:
Sharlin, Uri
Guitar:
Maoz, Eyal
First line:
She sang, as if looking through the magnifying glass, lullabies every…
Language:
English
Style:
Literary Origin/Spoken Word
Length:
2:45