Unknown Klezmatics CD: The Shvitz

[Christian Hansson <christian...>]

Well, at least the qualities of this CD were completely unknown to me. To those 
of you who like the Klezmatics' music and never listened to this CD, I would 
like to draw your attention to this CD. I just bought it on chance, because so 
far I liked everything that Frank London's contributed to.  

To be perfectly correct, this is a Frank London CD, but all current members of 
the Klezmatics (except for Paul Morrissett) are playing on it, and they have a 
bunch of other interesting musicians to their help: Greg Wall, saxofonist of 
the Hasidic New Wave and well-known guitarist Marc Ribot, just to name a few. 

It was released in 1993, but you couldn't tell it's six years old. It sounds 
very modern. Lorin Sklamberg is even rapping in Yiddish on one track! Some 
tracks would fit in into Hasidic New Wave's music. Take the plaintive version 
of Vus vet zayn or the tougher Verastikh Li, for example. Alicia Svigal's 
fine-tuned violin playing is the center of Full Moon, Ancient Waters and 
Kolomeyke. And so on. You' ll love it, and you'll be delighted by discovering a 
Klezmatics CD you did'nt even know it existed.

Ari has a review of it at 
http://www.klezmershack.com/bands/london/shvitz/london.shvitz.html.

Christian



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