The Press

Focusing on tearing down religious, racial and musical fences that divide...like Stevie Wonder, Eder believes that music is the one language understood by people from around the globe.

Frank Williams, Los AngelesTimes, April 17, 1997

"Alan's good taste is evident on this selection of traditional Passover songs sung in Hebrew with reggae and African-inspired rhythms. There are plenty of reggae Christmas albums but this is the first that blends 'music from the Jewish and African Diasporas'...this one-drop extended family seder evokes a sense of universal brotherhood that crosses cultural and racial divides."

Chuck Foster, The Beat (the premiere international periodical dealing with reggae, African, and other world music), June Issue (vol. 16, #3, 1997

"Reggae Passover....a sound that is both foreign and familiar, both playful and profound....All of the songs are sung....to the the African-reggae combo's throbbing, leaping, and swirling beats. The African and reggae musicians....are consistently stunning. They play everything from saxophones and electric guitars to gourd rattles, bells, and nine different kinds of drums. With these, they create rhythms that gallop like camels, tempos that shift like breezes, and melodies that snake along like vines which startlingly sprout multi-colored blooms."

Paul Wieder, JUF News of Chicago, April, 1997