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Girls in Trouble
12+ albums
jewishindie popJDubfolkhebrew
about
Thanks to a TV special on the Suzuki Method, Alicia Jo Rabins, daughter of non-musicians, found herself playing a super tiny violin at age three. Her parents didn't know what they were getting into. By age eleven, she was writing "avant-garde" pieces by bouncing tennis balls against piano strings at a conservatory. At age fifteen she was composing twelve-tone quartets. But it was in college, on a two-month sailing expedition for a semester abroad, that she found her real musical passion. An Appalachian shipmate taught her dozens of traditional fiddle tunes, and, playing on deck as the sun set and the gulls circled, she realized her true love: simple chords and old folktales. The story could have ended there, but as she drifted across the Caribbean Sea, Alicia found herself dreaming constantly of Jerusalem. Sailors are superstitious, so she bought a one-way ticket, flew across the ocean with a backpack and her fiddle, and found a small school that would teach her Hebrew and Aramaic. Plunging deep into arcane texts and mystical ritual, she studied twelve hours a day. At night she snuck out with her fiddle to play in nearby bars. After two years of (mostly) monastic life, Alicia rejoined the world with characteristic intensity. She moved to Brooklyn, toured with several different bands, earned two Masters degrees (one in Jewish women's studies, the other in poetry), and read and reread the Old Testament. She was haunted and moved by the sex, the violence and the twisted HBO-w
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Girls In Trouble
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JDub Presents: Wild Peace
Half You Half Me
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JDub Presents: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Jewish Music
Open the Ground
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If The 21st Century Didn't Exist?
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The Best of Jdub: The Modern Sound of Traditional Jewish Music
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We Are Androgynous
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If the Twenty-First Century Didn't Exist, It Would Be Necessary To Invent It
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If The 21st Century Didn't Exist, It Would Be Necessary To Invent It
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Half You Half Me Single
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Ain't Nothing But a Jewish Party!