May 16: Darshan + Elana Brody at DROM. Chant Records, the brainchild of Zorn-heads Jon Madof and Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, launched late last year with a flurry of releases that showcase their fringe-crossing palate for world music, experimental music, and free jazz. That blend is perfectly colored on Raza, the debut from Darshan. Putting a new-world spin on traditional Jewish music, singers Basya Schechter (of Pharaoh’s Daughter) and aShir Yaakov, and rapper Eden Pearlstein (a/k/a ePRHYME) make their own unique form of Radical Jewish Culture, taking Judaic songs and poetry and transforming it into a spiritual and infectious amalgam of Hip-Hop grittiness and danceable Eastern melodies.