Welcome to the G6 update disk (Maroon label)

You are about to experience possibly one of the most unique discographies of Israeli dance music. It’s the confluence of two vectors

• In general the tradition of the Germantown CD has been to collect about a third more music than needed when the time has come for release. The music on the CDs usually meets one of the themes of the presentation and/or maximally utilizes the capacity of the media. Therefore, a good bit of music never sees the light of day and cannot be used the next time because of the transient nature of this type of popular music.
• Grant Shulman, the dance leader of Germantown, has in possession a series of 6 CDs from Cornell that were originally cassette tapes. At Germantown these CDs are classified as C1 through C6. We asked him about these CDs:

Q1: Give us a brief idea of what was behind the creation of the Cornell disks. Were these marathon related? Were they for a weekly session held at Cornell? Why did somebody formalize these into the various CDs (we know you have c1 though c6). Was this just to modernize from tape or cassette?

'The Cornell CDs were created in the late 90's by a Cornell student who was leading the dance group at the time.  He took the music repertoire, which up until then was mainly in cassette form, and transferred the music onto 6 CDs, thus making playing and accessing different dances much easier.'

Q2: The Aussie database indicates one of the songs to be as late as 1999. Not surprising, some of the songs are dated back to the 70’s if not earlier. Was 1999 the year that these CDs were produced?

'I forget the exact date, but 1999 could be correct (though I have a feeling it was a little earlier.)'

This CD combines these two vectors giving a CD of great range both chronologically and musically. The process of restoration saved 17 tracks from the original C6 and these are the first 17 tracks of this CD. Some of these tracks have had to be re-mastered and additional echo, hiss reduction and volume has been effected. Please keep in mind that no one on this project is an audio/sound technician and some levels of hiss (which occurs in transferring from one type of media to another) remain.

To this we’ve added 12 tracks or more modern music to utilize all but 2 seconds to what you will be listening. These tracks include some of the newest couple dances being done at Don’s and Rob’s. (Ed Note: As of Jan'08 at the time of this release)

We hope you enjoy this bonus to the Germantown G11 package, the newly revised G6. Below is the discography which includes name of song, translation as indicated by the Aussie database, year of release and applicable (and perhaps some un-applicable) comments.

Note:This web information differs from the hard copy given with the G6U CD in the addition of some videos displaying these dances.Click Here to link to the vieo clip section of this web site

Featured Artists

Sefi Aviv	Avner Naim	Dudu Barzilay	Yankele Levy	Rafi Ziv	Naomi Shemer

C = Circle, L = Line Dance, P = partner

Bacholom, Lakum V'laamod and Overet Orach -known as Grant’s melancholy trio at Germantown - have appeared on G9.

Shufni has appeared previously in G8

This CD contains Nitzmadnu, choreographed by Rafi Ziv. The G8 documentation discusses this choreographer somewhat and if you would like to see this documentation, click this link

3 of the dances on this CD are choreographed by Avner Naim. Naim has a new dance that is being taught as this is being written and you can get a little more inforamtion about this dance and Naim by clicking here

Od Lo Ahavti Dai is one of the tracks of the G6U CD. To see a discussion of the choreographer, Yankele Levy, and the translation to the song, click this link