Chasof ｜ Mendy Portnoy מנדי פורטנוי ｜ CHANUKA (A Live Piano Album)

Mendy Portnoy — CHANUKA (A Live Piano Album) Following ELUL, Mendy Portnoy returns to the piano with CHANUKA, a collection of deeply personal, freely flowing interpretations of classic Chanuka melodies. These are songs we know by heart, heard around the candles and sung together year after year. Here, they become starting points for exploration. Familiar melodies unfold through unexpected harmonies, shifting rhythms, and quiet detours, revealing new possibilities within music that has been with us since childhood. Each interpretation gives these classics room to breathe. A joyful tune might find a moment of stillness; a simple refrain might open into something expansive. Throughout, the warmth of the original melodies remains, even as the music travels somewhere new. There is something fitting about approaching Chanuka this way: returning to a familiar ritual and finding fresh meaning in it. At the piano, as around the candles, slowing down gives us a chance to notice what we might otherwise miss. One piano. Familiar melodies. A new light. CHANUKA by Mendy Portnoy is available now on all streaming platforms. Produced by Mendy Portnoy Directed by Binyamin Babayof Camera operators: Chaim Gerlitz, Binyamin Babayof Mixed & Mastered by Tzvi Levine For bookings and more info: mendyportnoymusic@gmail.com Instagram: @Mendyportnoy