Jordan’s full-length studio album of original contemporary Yiddish music for kids and families: “Pantakozak & other new Yiddish songs for kids,” is available now from Borscht Beat via Bandcamp, together with an 11” x 11” kids book with original art by Nina Wright and lyrics in Yiddish, English, and transliterated Yiddish.
From "Pantakozak and Other New Yiddish Songs for Kids," available from Borscht Beat here: https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/pantakozak-and-other-new-yiddish-songs-for-kids
Performed by Jordan Wax with Marin Bunea si Taraf de Chisinau in Chisinau, Moldova. Translation into Russian by Fima Chorny.
From "Pantakozak and Other New Yiddish Songs for Kids" by Jordan Wax Available now at: https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/pantakozak-and-other-new-yiddish-songs-for-kids
With Jake Shulman-Ment, violin
A welcome song in the style of a valona, a poetry and song form primarily from Michoacán, Mexico, to welcome the children to an online version of Bilingual Books & Babies / Canto y Cuento when the public library was closed due to the COVID pandemic. Home multitrack recording with violin, bajo sexto, and mandolin.
A kids’ song commissioned early in the pandemic for a bilingual preschool in Los Alamos, New Mexico, to help kids talk about germs in a non-threatening but educational way. Winner of the New Mexico Music Award 2021 “Best Children’s Song.” With Tanya Nuñez (upright bass).
Original hand-washing couplets set to a Northern New Mexican chotís and arranged in the style of Western Swimg, commissioned for a bilingual preschool in Los Alamos, New Mexico in the early pandemic. With Tanya Nuñez, upright bass.
A bilingual interpretation of Roberto Mondragón’s “Mi Tía” in the style of a Northern New Mexico ranchera, recorded for a remote program for the Santa Fe Public Library early in the pandemic.
An excerpt from an original Spanish-English bilingual song that leads young audiences through the activity of finding and pointing out objects of different colors.
A Río Grande-style chotís composed by Pedro Ayala with original words by Jordan Wax—performed in July 2020 by Jordan Wax (bajo sexto, accordion) and Tanya Nuñez (tololoche) for the Santa Fe Public Library’s “Bilingual Books + Babies / Canto y Cuento”.