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A prayer for atonement and regeneration. A re-wilding.

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Alphabet of Wrongdoing / Ashamnu אשמנו

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HIGHLIGHTS:
Johnny Spence's cosmos attunement synth, Dan Goldman's eternal guitar, Alex Lukashevsky-the-Ancient's voice in minyan "Cruel and callous actions blossoming like bitter flowers…"

The Ashamnu, also known as the “Alphabet of Wrongdoing,” is written in the first-person plural, alphabetically listing all of the wrongs ‘we’ have committed in the past year.

When recited together, it is a gesture of solidarity, a confessional inventory sung aloud.

“We pound at the heart until it opens and we can read it.” — Rabbi Alan Lew

Ashamnu - “it’s our fault.”

Please share this music - in the spirit of forgiveness + reconciliation, or just to pole-vault from one heart to another.

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Produced by Daniela Gesundheit and Dan Misha Goldman

Performed by

Daniela Gesundheit

Dan Misha Goldman

Johnny Spence

Alex Lukasehevksy

Recorded by Dan Misha Goldman in Montréal, Leon Taheny at Boombox in Toronto

Mixed by Steve Kaye at Sunking Studios in Los Angeles

Mastered by David Travers-Smith at found.sound

Artwork, typography, and layout by Brankica Harvey and Ken Deegan.

photograph by Dawn Garcia

This song was recorded on the traditional territories of Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat people, and on the unceded lands of The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation and the Gabrielino/Tongva people.

This song was recorded with the assistance of a Canada Council for the Arts concept to realization grant.

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lyrics

אָשַֽׁמְנוּ. בָּגַֽדְנוּ. גָּזַֽלְנוּ. דִּבַּֽרְנוּ דֹּֽפִי. הֶעֱוִֽינוּ. וְהִרְשַֽׁעְנוּ. זַֽדְנוּ. חָמַֽסְנוּ. טָפַֽלְנוּ שֶֽׁקֶר. יָעַֽצְנוּ רָע. כִּזַּֽבְנוּ. לַֽצְנוּ. מָרַֽדְנוּ. נִאַֽצְנוּ. סָרַֽרְנוּ. עָוִֽינוּ. פָּשַֽׁעְנוּ. צָרַֽרְנוּ. קִשִּֽׁינוּ עֹֽרֶף. רָשַֽׁעְנוּ. שִׁחַֽתְנוּ. תִּעַֽבְנוּ. תָּעִֽינוּ. תִּעְתָּֽעְנוּ:

Ashamnu– it’s our fault; Bagadnu– we have betrayed; Gazalnu– we have robbed; Dibarnu dofi– we were speechless; He’evinu– we have acted perversely; V’hirshanu– we have done wrong; Zadnu– we have presumed; Hamasnu– we have done violence; Tafalnu sheker– we have practiced deceit; Yaatsnu ra– we have counseled evil; Kizavnu– we have spoken falsehood; Latsnu– we have scoffed; Maradnu– we have revolted; Niatsnu– we have blasphemed; Sararnu– we have rebelled; Avinu– we have committed iniquity; Pashanu– we have transgressed; Tsararnu– we have oppressed; Kishinu oref– we have been haughty; Rashanu– we have acted wickedly; Shichatnu– we have dealt corruptly; Tiavnu– we have committed atrocity; Tainu– we have gone astray; Titanu– we have led others astray.

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