Showing posts with label Klezmer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Klezmer. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Thursday, July 11, 2013
FREE DOWNLOAD - NU KLEZMER ARMY
"Nu Klezmer Army brings new life and energy to the traditional music of the yiddish-speaking jews of Eastern Europe. Melding together each player's diverse musical background, NKA brings forth an undeniably fun incarnation of instrumental, dance oriented, emotionally charged, klezmer music. Equal parts wandering gypsy, pickled punk, cut-rate circus, and drunken rabbi, Nu Klezmer Army stays true to the traditions of learning from one another over bottles of shlivovitz and sharing stories of out travels. We have played everything from the seediest of punk rock dive bars, to ornate historic theaters, brass band and circus festivals (although we are neither a brass band or circus), vegan dinners, city sponsored ground breaking ceremonies, midnight in the mountains around a fire and we are up for just about anything."
https://soundcloud.com/nuklezmerarmy
https://www.facebook.com/nu.klezmerarmy
https://twitter.com/nuklezmerarmy
Line-up:
Annie Ford - Violin
Dan Kaplan - Clarinet
Joe Albanese - Bass
Gus Clark - Accordion
Anne Mathews - Tapan
Avi Kerson - Dumbek &Snare Drum
DOWNLOAD:
http://nuklezmerarmy.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/nu.klezmerarmy
https://twitter.com/nuklezmerarmy
Line-up:
Annie Ford - Violin
Dan Kaplan - Clarinet
Joe Albanese - Bass
Gus Clark - Accordion
Anne Mathews - Tapan
Avi Kerson - Dumbek &Snare Drum
DOWNLOAD:
http://nuklezmerarmy.bandcamp.com
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
REVIEW - MALOX "Polka for Punks" (2012)
Malox "Polka for Punks" Audio Montage
Release date: 18 October 2012
Running time: 44:33, 11 tracks
Malox (Eyal Talmudi, sax, clarinet and pipes, and Aviv Bonen, Drums) is an interesting band from Tel Aviv, Israel. In some folk traditions, a duet of bagpiper and snare drums is quite normal, but in “rock” music this kind of line-up is not normal.
Eyal and Aviv play their own music in which klezmer and Caribbean rythms meet film scores. There is no vocals, but they don’t need them. Their music is intended for dancing and they create atmospheres. My favourite track is the last one, “Sorvant Horo”. Eyal plays the pipes and the tune has a medieval twist. The title of track no. 3 is quite obvious , “Bagpipe Reggae”. It’s a reggae with some dub elements on which the pipes are played instead of the sax or the clarinet. Maybe that’s a distinctive trademark of the band, to use the instrument that normally should not be played on the style they’re playing. Maybe I’m wrong, but I feel that on “Polka for Punks”, a klezmer tune, the sax plays the main role.
Release date: 18 October 2012
Running time: 44:33, 11 tracks
Malox (Eyal Talmudi, sax, clarinet and pipes, and Aviv Bonen, Drums) is an interesting band from Tel Aviv, Israel. In some folk traditions, a duet of bagpiper and snare drums is quite normal, but in “rock” music this kind of line-up is not normal.
Eyal and Aviv play their own music in which klezmer and Caribbean rythms meet film scores. There is no vocals, but they don’t need them. Their music is intended for dancing and they create atmospheres. My favourite track is the last one, “Sorvant Horo”. Eyal plays the pipes and the tune has a medieval twist. The title of track no. 3 is quite obvious , “Bagpipe Reggae”. It’s a reggae with some dub elements on which the pipes are played instead of the sax or the clarinet. Maybe that’s a distinctive trademark of the band, to use the instrument that normally should not be played on the style they’re playing. Maybe I’m wrong, but I feel that on “Polka for Punks”, a klezmer tune, the sax plays the main role.
I have also enjoyed track no. 5, “Hungarian birds”, a song on which I can hear echoes from TV cop series and The Clash from the “Combat Rock” era, together with track no. 2, “Americana”, an instrumental that sounds like the OST from a David Lynch movie. And don’t forget their rendition of the classic “Pop Corn”.
Do you live in Germany? Watch out! These guys are playing at the Jazzhead expo in Bremen next 25th April.
Tracklist:
01. Polka for Punks 03:03
02. Americana 04:15
03. Bag Pipe Reggae 05:16
04. Thai long 04:19
05. Hungarian Birds 05:27
06. Pop Corn 03:24
07. Gary from Tashkent 05:09
08. Mo'de Ani 04:03
09. Introgon 02:05
10. Clarigon 04:17
11. Sorvant horo 02:50
http://www.malox.info
http://www.facebook.com/malox2012
Click to buy:
http://malox.bandcamp.com (mp3)
Review by Kinksmarkham