Cafe Klez - Frejlechs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

There is a very particular charm about klezmer music that cannot be found in other styles of music. It's a kind of melancholic exuberance; at once happy and sad, klezmer sounds simultaneously like laughing and weeping. Klezmer is a musical genre in a constant state of evolution. Perhaps it's history lends itself to this- the original klezmorim were itinerant musicians who would travel around the shtetls of Eastern Europe performing at weddings and other occasions, until displacement of the Jewish population in the late 19th and early 20th centuries saw klezmer make it's way to America where it met with jazz and other western music. These qualities make it difficult to pinpoint exactly what klezmer is today. To quote Gustavo Bulgach, whose band Klezmer Juice is featured on this collection, Inchklezmer is like a soapy pig. Everybody's trying to catch it, but every time someone gets ahold of it, it slips away from them.Inch Album Tracks 1. Silver Wedding - Shir 2. Bucimis (A Dance from Bulgaria) - Gregori Schechter & the Wandering Few 3. Hassidic Melody No. 6 - the Burning Bush 4. Stetl Tango - Transkapela 5. Europeyishe Kolomeyke - She'koyokh 6. Oberek Palota - Yale Strom 7. Is Gekummen a Klesmer - Jontef 8. Dos Lidsun Der Ayznban - from Both Ends of the Earth 9. Galitzyaner Tantz - Klezmer Festival Band 10. Hey Klezmorim - Rubinstein Klezmer Project 11. The Chess Tune - from Both Ends of the Earth 12. Hey! Zhankoye! - Lucie Skeaping 13. Itamar Freilach - Klezmer Juice 14. Kishniever Bulgar / Vo Bist Du Geveyzn Far Prohibi - the Burning Bush 15. Waltz Medley Shloimele Malkele/Di Zun../Margaritk - Klezmer Juice 16. Dem Baal Shem Tovs Zemerl - from Both Ends of the Earth

Album Tracks 1. Diddley Shmiddley/Kleine Princessin 2. Skotchne 3. Rushin' Sher 4. I Drink to Forget 5. Tartar Tanz 6. Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen (Raisins & Almonds)/Oyfn Pripetshik (At the Fireplace) 7. Lupita 8. Garsona (The Waitress) 9. Ay Ya Bibi 10. Acaj Pene Rakije 11. Kosher Kabana/Shepherd's Dream 12. Khever, Nit Gezogrt 13. Na Sopkakh Man'chzurii (In the Hills of Manchuria) 14. A Night in Tunisia/Besaraber Khusidl

From the early small ensembles to the wartime brass bands who brought jazz and pop to the music, this collection chronicles decades of klezmer melodies, rhythms, laughter and tears. Includes Oriental Hora Abe Schwartz; Der Glater Bulgar Taras Instrumental Trio; Shulem's Bulgarish Yenkowitz and Goldberg; Doina S. Kosch; Firn Di Mekhutonim Aheym Naftule Brandwein, and more! Album Tracks 1. Rusishe Sher 2. Rumanian Doina 3. Der Glater Bulgar (The Plain Bulgar) 4. Shulem's Bulgarish 5. Freylekhs Fun Der Khupe (Freylekhs from the Wedding Canopy) 6. Der Rebe Is Gegangen (The Rebe Went) 7. VI Bist Du Geveyzn Far Prohibishn? (Where Were You Before Prohibition?) 8. Lebedik Un Freylekh (Tants) (Lively and Happy Dance) 9. Doina 10. Rusishe Sher 11. Oriental Hora 12. Boyberiker Khasene, Di (Wedding in Boyberiker) 13. No Documentation Available for This Track 14. Firn Di Mekhutonim Aheym (Escorting the Parents of the Bride and Groom Home)