Klezmer

That definition is, admittedly, overbroad and slightly inaccurate (inasmuch as klezmer is a little more musically variegated than polka). But I think it's generally accurate.

Sorry, can't give you a good rec., Madchen, aside from one Hasidic New wave CD I don't like that much, I only own Masada CDs (which may have too much other stuff going on for you, if you just want to hear what klezmer is like by itself).

Uh. Also Firewater, especially their first album, do a nice bit of melodic NYC-lower-east-side-meets-klez-and-other-Eastern-European rocknroll.

Dave Tarras is good. I don't really know any other Klezmer names.

trad stuff is of course great but there's lots of terrific revivalist stuff too.

-- (johni72...), January 17th, 2004 1:18 PM. (orion)

No i'm a rather frumpy australian woman.

naftule brandwein - the king of the klezmer clarinet
dave tarras - tanz!
abe schwartz - the klezmer king

(if that answers your question)

http://www.piranha.de/records/english/all_1789.htm

http://www.tzadik.com/CDSections/RadicalJewishCulture/rabbinical.html

And I haven't even heard them.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006I9FS/qid=1077050289/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-2925665-1860839?v=glance&s=music

but yeah, I can't find the london one! I hope it hasn't been deleted! will search further...

http://www.piranha.de/records/english/download/download.htm

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006317T/qid=1077050752/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-2925665-1860839?v=glance&s=classical

Also, since I kind of hear klezmer drumming from a New Orleans angle anyway, I figure I'll pick up a New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars cd or two when I'm there this weekend.

(x-post - SWEET, thanks)

are you a fan of the bar kokhba double-discs?

The Circle Maker is pretty fantastic, I think I like the full band side more. Haven't heard the other one.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004RJX3/qid=1077217752//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl15/002-2925665-1860839?v=glance&s=classical&n=507846

this is more string-heavy stuff, very arranged, almost chamber-like klezmer with lots of cymbalom (one of my favourite instruments).

As far as klez albums I've heard though, it is really good. I like the droney rubato tracks the best, I think.

I fell asleep to Tanz! yesterday, in a good way. Some of it is REALLY repetitious, like they just loop the form and play it the same way each time, but hey, I guess that's what you have to do to keep the Bar Mitzvah floor rockin'. A lot of it is beautiful though.

(by the way I just re-read my last post and am appalled. "give his live joint a 'tree'?" "REALLY intense"?!?!?

what the fuck is the matter with me?

Partially because I was babbling on about Charming Hostess on another thread, and then searched for Klezmer and found, well, not a lot (I'll blame this on the fauz-nu-ilx search function, I suppose).

So. Modern or traditional Klezmer reccomendations - go.

Anyway, recommendations:
Golem
Kletka Red
The Klezmatics (esp. that new Woodie Guthrie album)
Jewlia Eisenberg (not really klezmer at all, but some klez influences)
Tim Sparks - At the Rebbe's Table
And for something completely different: Socalled + Solomon - Hiphopkhasene

That being said, I've been listening to a lot of "The Klezmer Conservatory Band" as of late, particularly "Old World Beat".

apart from cicala mvta...?

Happy Chanukah tonight. The Sinai Mountain Boys who play Jewgrass more than klezmer are performing for free at the Kennedy Center in DC at 6 tonight.

Has anyone heard the new Jewlia project (The Bowls Project) yet? The stuff on her website sounds really amazing. I hope she does some recording soon.

http://www.bolingo.org/audio/texts/fr127_128_3.JPG

Happy chanukah. Lots of folks touring this time of the year.

Chock full of info, this thread! I'd never seen it before. I love all the Klezmatics I've heard, and several of Frank London's other projects, but was mostly frustrated by an NPR concert this week. It was centered around new settings for Woody Guthrie lyrics about Chanukah: some good imagery flashing by (more glimpses of Mermaid Avenue in the winter mist, for inst), but Klezmatics now seem like Frank London and Friends, no great chemistry overall, and apparently they've seized on some lyric fragments, and you get this semi-Cooder blandness bobbing in place, and the main (male) vocalist has this really doughy voice--even though they had Susan McKeown on hand, her sultry/forthright alto only got a lead, or even a very audible backup vocal spot, on a few numbers. But they did get a good klez-cajun thing going a couple of times (more of that fiddle, please! Why was that rationed too? Didn't even hear London that much--it was mostly the doughboy vocal show)But I'm very glad to have the few numbers that did work (taped it all)

"Love all the Klezmatics" albums, that is (and some old live sets on tape)

The video of Golem's live show (that was free) earlier tonight in DC should be on the Kennedy Center Milennium Stage website shortly

I just heard the new Golem album today (Citizen Boris). I think it's a lot more interesting than the last album, and makes a much stronger argument for their kind of music (klezmer punk, whatever). Whereas with Off the Boat I always felt like it was a little nostalgic and a little shticky, with Citizen Boris it sounds like a totally original thing and really brilliant.

Klezmerquerque:

http://209.62.39.19/~nahalats/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=54

(I'm not going--unless I win tickets or something--but I don't go to anything these days. I'm not really as interested in klezmer as I was at one time, but for the name alone, I thought I would post this link.)

This band is dope: http://www.myspace.com/yiddishprincess

Not klezmer, but chazzanis: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/nyregion/21cantor.html?partner=rss&emc=rss