RE: Fusion Music

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

Along those general lines- I'd like to see (or maybe create) a music that
pulls Ashkenazic Jewish music back to it's (possible) roots in folk forms
of far eastern Europe or the Middle East- although there may be more
obvious connections in the use of certain harmonies (I'm not really such an
expert that I can provide conclusive evidence of this- though this is what
my ears seem to tell me), what I'd like to do is make or expose bridges in
the rhythmic structure as well (how's that for a run on sentence). What
goes around comes around.
                        EK

At 09:50 PM 1/6/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>Sara:
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>I was at David Krakauer's first Tonic show in December.  He was
magnificent.  The crowd was the usual mix for a NYC klezmer event:  half
70-somethings with blue hair and half 30-somethings, also with blue hair
(if you get my drift).  I was with a friend who had never heard Krakauer
before and when the show was over he just looked straight at me and in a
succinct deadpan declared, "That was simply the best clarinet playing I've
ever heard in my life."  'Nuff said.
>
>- Mark Melnick
>
>P.S.:  If 3-way bluegrass/punk/klezmer fusion interests you, check out the
Bad Livers' version of "A Yid ist Geboren inz Oklahoma" on their new
"Industry and Thrift" CD.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>From:  parentheses [SMTP:Sara(dot)Marcus (at) oberlin(dot)edu]
>Sent:  Tuesday, January 05, 1999 9:46 PM
>To:    World music from a Jewish slant.
>Subject:       fusion music (was Modzitz)
>
>.....I'm personally thrilled with the fusions that are going on between
klezmer
>and other musical forms.  The work Dave Tarras did in the 40s with the
>"new Jewish swing" is being continued today by the bluegrass excursions of
>Cayuga Klezmer Revival, the astounding punk rock virtuosity of Kletka Red,
>and the sustained dissonances of David Krakauer's latest works - the likes
>of which I was excited and gratified to witness at the Lower East Side's
>Tonic last Sunday.  (Were any other listmembers there? It was so awesome,
>and Naftule Brandwein's granddaughter was in attendance!).....
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