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Meshuge Klezmer Band

Musiker!

MKB's new musical exodus "narrates" to us, like a musical Chatwin, the gestures of Sam Musiker, Jewish Clarinet player from the postwar Big Apple, who with his recording Tanz (made with his father-in-law Dave Tarras, also a clarinet player, one of the greats of klezmer music) wrote one of the defining works of contemporary klezmer music.
An intense emotional and refined recording, which with the addition of a beguiling "jazz" mood smooths away the age of the original (1955) and brings to the ear of the novice listener the powerful and covert connections between Afroamerican music and music with a Hebrew origin which have given so much to the sounds from the other side of the ocean.
Martino Fedrigoli (translation: Melissa Stott)


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Tracks:

1. INTRO RUMANIA (Alexander Olshanetsky)
2. GYPSY (traditional)
3. THE ROUMANIAN FANTASY (Dave Tarras) --> Listen Mp3!
4. TANGO (Dave Tarras)
5. TANZ! BULGAR (traditional)
6. SAM’S BULGAR (Sam Musiker)
7. DER YEMENITE TANZ (Sam Musiker) --> Listen Mp3!
8. RUMANIA (Alexander Olshanetsky)
9. DER NEIER DOINA (Sam Musiker)
10. DER CHOLUM FUN YID (Sam Musiker)
11. SAM SHPIELT (Sam Musiker)
12. DER ZISER BULGAR (Naftule Brandwein) / Silkene Pajamas (Juvelier / Rund)
13. A BULGAR (traditional)
14. PAPIROSSEN (Herman Yablokoff)



Personnel:

FABIO BASILE guitar
STEFANO CORSI bass
ZENO DE ROSSI drums
J KYLE GREGORY trumpets
ROBERTO LANCIAI alto and baritone sax
ANDREA RANZATO accordion
MARIA VICENTINI violin

featuring AMY DENIO clarinet


Artwork by Sara Meneghini


MESHUGE KLEZMER BAND on myspace



Review quotes:

Bruce Lee Gallanther
Downtown Music Gallery - giugno 2008

"If you thought that traditional-sounding klezmer music couldn't come from Italy, well think again! [...] It is often the arrangements, the way the violin, accordion and horns blend together that makes this so special and heartfelt. Quite possibly better than anything I've heard from Radical Jewish Culture section of the Tzadik catalogue in recent memory"

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Marco Carcasi
Kathodik - giugno 2008
http://www.kathodik.it/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=3689

"Musica festosa o malinconicamente raccolta, ponte ideale, fra pulsioni più strettamente radical jewish ed un venticello fresco, che pare giungere direttamente dalla madre Africa.
Avanti ed indietro nel tempo la Manhattan di ieri ed i maglioni infeltriti dei Balcani di oggi. [...] Semplicemente ottimo"