The Wandering Muse
From ram’s horn to beatbox, from Uganda to Argentina, THE WANDERING MUSE explores the vibrant array of musical interpretations of Jewish identity.
In an alternative Argentinean bar, two friends play tango-infused klezmer. Ugandan villagers chant Hebrew prayers in East African harmonies. At a Montreal party, an artist mixes hip-hop and jazz with cantorial singing in a multilingual tour de force. In a Berlin apartment, an American and a Russian sing an anti-Zionist song from the 1920’s.
The film is a series of encounters with Jewish musicians from across the world. As stereotypes are shattered and expectations up-ended, each scene brings us closer to discovering the nomadic soul in a borderless world of harmonies. With the traditional and the contemporary in continuous dialogue, THE WANDERING MUSE attends the dynamic birth of new Jewish music.
