{"id":227,"date":"2025-12-03T20:29:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattjasper.com\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:30:49","slug":"passed-over","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mattjasper.com\/index.php\/music\/albums\/passed-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Passed Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 786px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1544538259\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"https:\/\/mattjasper.bandcamp.com\/album\/passed-over\">Passed Over by Matt Jasper<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matt Jasper Explores Diaspora, Devotion, and Defiance in Concept Album <em>Passed Over<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Out April 4, 2023 via For The Records<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt Jasper\u2019s <em>Passed Over<\/em> is a bold and moving concept album that fuses traditional Jewish Klezmer with protest music and global folk influences to tell the story of a Passover seder as a reflection of both historical and contemporary displacement. Released through For The Records on April 4, 2023, <em>Passed Over<\/em> is not only a musical journey through the rituals of Passover but also a deeply personal meditation on Jasper\u2019s Ukrainian heritage and a call for diasporic solidarity amid the onset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The album is accompanied by a corresponding Haggadah, inviting listeners to participate in an immersive, reimagined Passover experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drawing inspiration from Jewish musical traditions and modern Klezmer artists such as Joey Weisenberg, The Klezmatics, and Shpilkis, <em>Passed Over<\/em> traverses themes of oppression, resilience, and renewal. Jasper\u2019s arrangements blend ancient melodies and folk modalities with layered instrumentation and vocal arrangements that echo both sacred traditions and political urgency. Through songs like \u201cTen Plagues of Yesterday and the Present War\u201d and \u201cNext Year in Kyiv,\u201d the album extends the Passover narrative beyond the biblical exodus into today\u2019s struggles for freedom and belonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At once spiritual and subversive, <em>Passed Over<\/em> is an evocative offering for fans of Jewish holiday music, world music, and socially conscious songwriting. Each track corresponds to a stage of the seder\u2014\u201cOrder of Operations,\u201d \u201cWashing of the Hands,\u201d \u201cBitter, Part 1: Greens\u201d\u2014unfolding with meditative pacing, ritualistic repetition, and a spirit of protest and hope. Jasper performs and engineers every track himself, contributing vocals, banjo, bass, drums, piano, and trombone to an album that is as intricate as it is intimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cThe seder is a ritual of memory and meaning\u2014it remembers exodus, but it also asks: What does liberation look like now? For me, as a Jewish artist of Ukrainian descent, Passover became a framework to process both ancestral trauma and modern injustice. This album is a musical seder and a protest liturgy. I wanted to honor the old songs while making space for the stories unfolding in our own time.\u201d<\/em> \u2014 <strong>Matt Jasper<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Passed Over<\/em> is now available on all streaming platforms and for download at <a>m<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mattjasper.com\">attjasper.com<\/a>. The companion <em>Passed Over Haggadah<\/em> is also available digitally and in print for seder hosts and music lovers alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Track Listing:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Order Of Operations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drinking Song, Part 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Washing of the Hands, Part 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bitter, Part 1: Greens<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Breaking Bread of Affliction, Part 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Passed Over, Part 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Four By Four<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Passed Over, Part 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ten Plagues of Yesterday and the Present War<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drinking Song, Part 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Washing of the Hands, Part 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Breaking Bread of Affliction, Part 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bitter, Parts 2 and 3: Herbs and Mortar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Festive Meal Interlude<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Breaking Bread of Affliction, Part 3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drinking Song, Part 3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drinking Song, Part 4: Miriam&#8217;s Well and Elijah&#8217;s Cup<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Next Year In Kyiv<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All songs written, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Matt Jasper.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Jasper Explores Diaspora, Devotion, and Defiance in Concept Album Passed Over Out April 4, 2023 via For The Records Matt Jasper\u2019s Passed Over is a bold and moving concept album that fuses traditional Jewish Klezmer with protest music and global folk influences to tell the story of a Passover seder as a reflection of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":201,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-227","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattjasper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattjasper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattjasper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattjasper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattjasper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattjasper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/mattjasper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/227\/revisions\/228"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattjasper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattjasper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}