Re: Charming Hostess

[Joel Bresler <jbresler...>]

I have the album cuz it has some Sephardi selections and find it, umm,
different. I'll have to listen to it again now that you've reawakened my
interest.

I have just found out about a Mexican artist that evidently does Sephardic
songs in Gothic (that's pop gothic, not early music gothic) style, and am
dying to hear her.

Meanwhile, the Changelings do a very atmospheric version (a la Dead Can
Dance) of A?Har Noghenim and El Duende does a salsa version of "A la una yo
naci." Broadside Electric does a version "Moshe Salio de Misrayim" in
Steeleye Span type arrangement. The Klezmokum do a rollicking version of a
Sephardic song they learned from Janet and Jak Esim.

I think that covers the waterfront for the Sephardic (not Mizrahi) side of
cutting edge.

Best, Joel


At 04:02 PM 7/22/98 -0400, Ari Davidow wrote:
>I've just begun listening to an album by an Oakland, CA group
>called "Charming Hostess." Gideon Aronoff also wrote about them
>in his Forverts article last month. Although they mostly sing/play
>music that is somewhere between punk rock and Bulgarian village 
>music, they do reworkings of "Sha Shtil" and "Di Grine Kuzine"
>that blow my mind. The major transform is that short hop to Bulgarish,
>but the harmonies and the tight playing are absolutely wonderful. Their
>version of "Sha Shtil" really captures the =quiet= of the song.
>
>I'll write more about it on the klezmer shack once I know the album
>better, but it is very seldom that I am so blown away by an initial
>listening that I wanted to pass the word on.
>
>It's only of tangential interest to most of the list, but for people,
>who like me, keep eyes especially looking at the edges, this is the
>sort of album that is going to get a lot of airplay for a long time.
>
>Any other recommendations list this?
>
>ari
>
>P.S. You can reach the band at: charmed (at) macconnect(dot)com
>
>Ari Davidow
>The klezmer shack: http://www.well.com/user/ari/klez/
>owner: jewish-music mailing list
>e-mail: ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
>
>
>


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