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  1. The Sway Machinery. 1,727 likes. "unclassifiable and uplifting" - The New Yorker

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  2. Feb 5, 2011 · The Sway Machinery with Khaira Arby. Tatiana McCabe. The Brooklyn band the Sway Machinery formed five years ago around a particular notion: Take traditional Jewish music and make it funky enough ...

  3. THE SWAY MACHINERY is a world fusion music artist. This page includes THE SWAY MACHINERY's : biography, official website, pictures, videos from YouTube, related forum topics, shouts, news, tour dates and events, live auctions, online shopping sites, detailled reviews and ratings and the full discography of albums: studios, live, compilations (boxset), EPs on CD, Vinyl / LP or cassette and ...

  4. The Sway Machinery. Though Sway Machinery frontman Jeremiah Lockwood grew up listening to both records of famous Jewish Cantors in his grandparents' Queens apartment (his maternal grandfather, Jacob Konigsberg, was a well-known…. Read Full Biography.

  5. The horn-driven quintet Sway Machinery draws on a mélange of influences—from Latin jazz to Ashkenazi cantorial tropes—to forge a dance-friendly, at times ecstatic sound. The group, founded by the guitarist and singer Jeremiah Lockwood, the grandson of the esteemed cantor Jacob Konigsberg, melds Lockwood’s Jewish musical roots with a wide-ranging interest in world music.

  6. It was available as a free download from the band’s website. The Sway Machinery will be releasing their third album, Purity and Danger on 3rd Generation Recordings in March 2015. The band explores dialogue with ghosts, saints, and juxtaposes songs about the subway with dead lovers, and 200-year-old Cantorial melodyes that are being performed for the first times in generations.

  7. The Sway Machinery: The House of Friendly Ghosts Vol. 1 (JDub Records) Reviewed by Eric Saeger Timbuktu-born singer – actually a superstar in his country – Khaira Arby joins the Brooklyn-based Jewish world-beaters in this outing, the inspiration for which sprang from the band’s journey to play a festival in Mali.

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