Re: Israeli Klezmer

[Berlin Moshe <berlim...>]

Shalom,

    As my name was mentioned here, I want to say that all what Josh wrote is
true. I have my own explanation to the very difference in definition of
"klezmer" here and aboard, and when the day come I'll send it to the list
(My English is not a mother tongue , so I am "Kvad Pe ukhvad Lashon"). I
want to point only these:

    In my opinion (and according to my feeling) I am a klezmer "Net". All
what I play is klezmer and nothing else. I am exposed to many musical stuff
and I play it in a klezmer mind.

    I have recorded two Cds on Charlebach music (48 nigunim) subtitled
"klezmers playing Charlebach" and B"H it sells good. Tara didn't put it in
the klezmer section of their catalog, but under "instrumental music". Why?
because it is not from the classical-east-european repertoire. Also it was
not put in the "Carlebach" section of the catalog, because it is not vocal.
The absurd  is that while it is real klezmer music touching the music or R'
Shlomo, there is no opportunity to the widely klezmer audiophile to hear it.

    Once I send to Simon (Hatikva)  another 2 CDs of klezmer music (My
style), but he was not interested in distributing them because I was using
electrical instruments and not acoustic one. So another klezmer music was
prevented from the American audiophile.

    I think that whether you like if or not, try to listen to the voices
from Israel and decide by yourselves what you like or not and what fits to
your definition of klezmer and maybe it will help to change slightly that
definition.

Moshe (Moussa) berlin

Joshua Horowitz wrote:

> For a long time, I've wanted to say how unfathomable it is that Moussa
> Berlin (speaking of Israeli klezmer) hasn't been considered one of the
> seminal figures of the klezmer revival. Back in the 60's Moussa was
> playing off of Brandwein and Tarras 78's before the term or methods of
> the revival had even been conceived. He's almost single-handedly
> replenished the Israeli scene with a true eastern European repertoire,
> been the main source for the Tarras cult that developed among the
> Hasidim in the past 10 years there and has never given up playing
> functionally. He's a veritable lexicon of Hasidic tunes, not to mention
> a really nice guy. Every once in awhile he writes into this list, but
> whenever that's happened, it seems no one's really paid much attention.
> True there is a lot of Israeli shlock out there, and there aren't any
> complete bands that catch my fancy, but in a few corners there lurk some
> pretty unbelievable oytsres... Josh Horowitz
>
> > << Israeli klezmer, on the other hand....
> >  >>
> >
> > except for a handful or artists...Israeli Klezmer is not "klezmer"
>

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