The Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture presents: “The Yiddish Cylinder Project” with Eric Warner

Toronto-based music producer Eric Warner will share his recent project to create new cylinders of Yiddish music.

The Cylinder Project’s mission is to educate, inspire, and motivate audiences to explore their own original cultural stories. Specifically, the Cylinder Project examines how stories, songs and information have been passed down through each generation and their significance to personal and cultural identity. The Cylinder Project explores early sound recordings, linguistics through parallels between melody and cadence in song and how the dissemination of music and stories have rapidly evolved in 120 years. The project focuses on incorporating original sound recordings of music and stories in their original form that are then reworked by present-day musicians and artists. The result is to promote the updated music and language, that still preserves the character of the story to the modern listener.

Eric Warner is the founder, and President of We Are Busy Bodies’ a record label, music management company, and booking agency founded in 2005. Since the late 1990’s he has consulted for a range of record labels, marketing agencies, arts organizations and operated additional programming initiatives for music organizations. The collective experience, and relationships of Mr. Warner and We Are Busy Bodies best positions The Cylinder Project to achieve and grow its mandate and objectives. The Cylinder Project is already actively collaborating with globally recognized museums, institutions, and universities to develop its project scope.

We Are Busy Bodies, its releases, and projects have been widely covered and championed by the likes of Bandcamp, BBC, CBC, New York Times, Toronto Star, The Wire, Mojo, Shindig, Vinyl Factory, TAZ, Juno Daily, Jazzism, Record Collector, Uncut and many other publications and platforms. To date, the label has released over 160 albums and is in the process of launching three subsidiary record labels.