The 5th Cup - A Spirit Explosion - Gershon Kingsley & Norman Simon With Theodore Bikel

I apologize for any skips, there are some scratches on the outside of the record but luckily there aren't too many farther in. This is a very interesting fusion of genres including gospel, psychedelic, jazz and electronic music. I would argue this is by far one of the most interesting records I have found to date. I do not own this music and I am uploading for entertainment purposes only. " THE FIFTH CUP is an exciting and exhilarating creation of lyricist Norman Simon and composer Gershon Kingsley. The work is based on a religious theme. It is not, however, a religious service. A contemporary version of the Passover Seder, this musical dramatization extends the ageless theme of slavery and brings it to the threshold of a computerized era. We are held in bondage not only to the forces of evil from without political economic, but also enslavements. Abraham Joshua Heschel referred to the latter as am expression of "the insecurity of freedom." "What would you give for security?" we are asked in the FITH CUP: "Would you give up your right today, Give up the right to say what you think, To put it all down with pen and ink. What would you give for security?" The marvelous pedagogical device of the simple chanting of the traditional Four Questions is the spring from which gushes forth a meledy of responses. "Why on this night do we eat unleavened bread?" "Unleavened bread is a poor man's bread, and poverty is a form of slavery." A1 1984 A2 One, One is One A3 Ode To Life (Kiddush) A4 To Celebrate Our Freedom A5 First Question - Poverty Ballad A6 Second Question - Bitter Herbs A7 Third Question - Supersistion B1 Fourth Question - Walk Like A Free Man B2 Wise Man Say B3 What Does It Take B4 Security Song ( Reprise of One, One is One) B5 Then Came The Law Grace https://www.discogs.com/Gershon-Kingsley-Norman-Simon-With-Theodore-Bikel-The-5th-Cup-A-Spirit-Explosion/release/10282077 If you wish to see any individual songs uploaded feel free to comment what ones