A cross-continental composition, named after Jog, a traditional Indian raga.  I started this niggun before traveling to India to study bansuri.  The tune was completed after my post-India trip to Canada, where I had been immersed in the celtic/quebec folk music scene.  

Nir Motzeri - Bansuri, Violin, Mandolin, Percussion
Yanush Hurwitz - Accordion
Eyal Luman - Naal & Kanjira

Jog - ג׳וג

Playing on a wide range of traditional and ethnic instruments, Nir Motzeri combines the rich multicultural reality of modern Israel with the ancient Jewish tradition of niggun.  A musical storyteller, Nir's compositions are fantastical worlds in which remote genres, rhythms and styles find themselves at home with one another and instruments converse like long lost friends.  The son of a Yemenite, born into an Israeli Sephardic family, with roots stretching from Spain, Italy and Morocco, fusion is Nir’s native musical language.  Traversing borders between East and West, the old world and the new, "To Make Her Happy" is a testament to the power of pure, wordless music to touch the heart and speak the langage of the soul.