Two Strings by Jake Shulman-Ment and Abigale Reisman

Renowned violinists Abigale Reisman and Jake Shulman-Ment present their highly anticipated collaborative album, Two Strings. A milestone in Ashkenazic violin style, the album showcases two of today’s most creative and virtuosic klezmer musicians.Two Strings—Tsvey Strunes in Yiddish—references a unique violin tuning of Turkish origin commonly used by Jewish musicians in Eastern Europe. Abigale and Jake have recorded a playful string-based album inspired by Yiddish, Romanian, Hungarian, Turkish, and classical music traditions. This timely release centers Yiddish culture as a profound source of wisdom in the face of dark times, and celebrates a diasporic Jewishness independent of any one particular territory or land.With striking authenticity as instrumentalists and vocalists, Abigale and Jake weave together a rich tapestry of original compositions, original settings of early 20th century radical leftist Yiddish poetry, and recently rediscovered pieces from forgotten manuscripts. Haunting