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- From: Ari Davidow <ari...>
- Subject: new articles on klezmershack
- Date: Tue 09 Jan 2001 14.09 (GMT)
In addition to a slew of new capsule reviews, and a longer review, with sound
samples, of the most recent Gary Lucas album, "Street of Lost Brothers"
(http://www.klezmershack.com/klezlist.html), I'm excited to be hosting an
article by Alan Bern about the transition "From Klezmer to New Jewish Music" in
Brave Old World that was originally published a couple of years ago in the
Dutch journal, "Mensh and Musik" in 1998. It's a neat article about the band,
but also about the process of thinking out what music these four individuals
are trying to create, and do, I think, successfully create.
http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/bern.new.html
Bern's most recent project, by the way, is a set of duet accordion
(accordion/keyboard?) pieces with Guy Klucevsek, "Accordance" which just became
available in the US. I anticipate that this will be as hard to find as copies
of the most recent Frank London album, so keep your eyes peeled and grab it
when you can, or order it from amazon.com to ensure that you get a copy.
List-member Judith Cohen weighs in on the recent Sephardic music anthology, "La
Yave, the key to Sephardic music" with some appropriately insightful
observations about Sephardic music and the recordings on this particular
anthology. The news isn't =always= good, but the article's the thing--well
worth reading.
http://www.klezmershack.com/articles/cohen_j/cohen_j.layave.html
And, of course, people on this list have already perused Koby's account of this
year's klezmershack, so I note that the link to his website is there, but will
not presume that members of this list need go to the KlezmerShack to get to
something they have already read, hosted on Koby's own website,
http://www.geocities.com/pdestructo/klezkamp2000.htm
Among the latest capsule reviews, I do want to call attention to the new
recording by Prague '24, from Minnesota, as a fresh and talented traditional
klezmer ensemble, unusually flute-heavy, but to quite good effect. I think it
is the first recording of 2001 that I've reviewed.
Enjoy,
ari
Ari Davidow
ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
the klezmer shack: http://www.klezmershack.com/
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- new articles on klezmershack,
Ari Davidow