Klezfactor - Klezmachine - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This record was originally released 20 years ago and became an instant classic. Considered by some to be the most important Klezmer records ever made. Available for the first time on CD. Album Tracks 1. A Galitsianer Tantsel (A Galican Dance) 2. Old Sher 3. Fun Der Khupa (From the Wedding Canopy) 4. Doina 5. Kallarash 6. The Bride's Waltz 7. Ternovka Sher 8. Kaleh Bazetsen (Seating the Bride) 9. Gypsy Hora and Sirba 10. Fihren Di Makhetonim Aheim (Escorting the In-Laws Home) 11. Alineinem (All Together) 12. Wedding March

Based in Mexico, Klezmerson is a super creative ever changing ensemble led by violinist, composer and arranger Benjamin Schwartz. Here they do their critically acclaimed and best selling Book of Angels installment one better with wild arrangements blending a variety of Mexican musical traditions with the sound of Masada. Featuring electric and acoustic strings, keyboards, accordions, saxes and of course a huge array of Latin percussion, Tiferet is one of the most delightful and imaginative CDs in the Book Beriah! Album Tracks 1. Hashawah 2. Middot 3. Reshimu 4. Sapir 5. Ratzon 6. Tomer 7. Nekevah 8. Zivugim

The whirling twisting music form known as Klezmer, which originated among the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe, can have a sad or festive climate. Here it has all the sweat of a swing club in Harlem during the Depression, as the Gefilte Swing band, led by Alexandre Litwak, plays it's own festive brand of jazz that borders on world music, with occasional forays into the world of pop. They nonchalantly borrow from the zoot-suit subculture with a shameless desire to live for swing and the result is hedonistic, generous and invigorating. And like the Carte de Séjour group in the 80's, they also have their own version of Douce France, which Charles Trenet wrote during the war, only this time it's sung in Yiddish. Album Tracks 1. Le Poste Parisien Vous Annonce 2. Frankraykh Mayn (Douce France) 3. Benny's Freilach 4. Freilach À la Litwak 5. Du Shaynts VI Di Zin 6. Lebedik Un Freilach 7. Mitsve Tentsl & Bughici Freylakhs 8. Yid Meets Goy 9. Mashav 10. Ikh Zing 11. Mayn Swingin' Tate 12. Yid Un Goy Fantasy 13. Tchiribim, Tchiribom 14. Al Capone