By COLlive reporter
Singer Benny Friedman‘s new album is not the result of years, or even months, of hard work.
In fact, he told COLlive, the time frame from an idea to the final mix was exactly one week.
“Doni Gross, who has years of experience in creating Jewish acapella music, called me last week and said, ‘we’re both at home now, let’s do this!'”
So the two got to work, and brainstormed for song ideas for an acapella album.
“We just came up with songs on the spot, and began recording them. We literally just sat down in the studio, and said, ‘what song should we do?’ There was no mulling over, no thought process… and it just came together,” he said.
The song is a mix of hits, including some with guest stars, such as Aish with Abie Rottenberg and Shlomo Simcha, Vezakeini with Baruch Levine and My Dear Rebbi with Yitzy Waldner.
With the album recording only their voices, it took them a very short amount of time to complete.
“With acapella, it’s just you, an engineer and arranger, you are not relying on musicians or anyone else,” Friedman said.
“With everything going on in the world today, people are looking for entertainment and inspiration,” Friedman says. “It’s such a crazy time, everything extra in our lives has been stripped away. So in the theme of that, acapella music is very apropos – no distractions, nothing extra, just a man and a microphone. You are left with just the song, which shines through in its simplest, beautiful form.”
Completing the album so quickly led to both of them question their other album productions.
“It got us asking, what in the world always takes so long?” Friedman says.
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Sounds incredible! Soothing to the searching soul.
He should make one every week! The world needs more songs from quality artists
Looking forward to this uplifting boost. We need comfort and encouragement.
Thank you giving us this Chizuk right now when we need it.