The Sway Machinery’s Jeremiah Lockwood has released an album of modern music inspired by the Jewish High Holidays, Kol Nidre. The album boasts a blues twist on traditional Kol Nidre music as well as some additional songs that echo the feel of the days of the day of atonement and repentance. Those tracks include:
“Kol Nidre, No. 3,” “Ribono Shel Olam,” “Everybody’s Got to Be Tried,” “Revive the Dead,” “Kedusha,” “Kol Nidre, No. 2,” “Lechu Neranena,” “Avinu Malkeynu Z’khor,” “Birkas Kohanim,” “Unasaneh Tokef” and a field recording of “Kol Nidre, No. 1.” Organist Shoko Nagai, singer Jewlia Eisenberg and The Sway Machinery drummer John Bollinger back Lockwood throughout the spiritual collection.

Lockwood recently participated in the Rosh Hashanah service held at New York’s Brooklyn Bowl, where he was joined by Nagai and Yeah Yeah Yeahs drummer Brian Chase. The guitarist will perform music from his new album, including a steel guitar take on the album’s title track, during an evening Kol Nidre service at Brooklyn, NY’s Roulette on Tuesday, October 11 and an all-day Yom Kippur service at Brooklyn’s ShapeShifter Lounge on Wednesday, October 12.

The services will feature traditional readings and prayers, plain-sense explanations of the religious aspects of the holiday, and a guided meditation.