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Kharkov Klezmer Band
- From: jonathan walton <jaw42...>
- Subject: Kharkov Klezmer Band
- Date: Sat 13 Jan 2001 17.28 (GMT)
Yes, these guys are great! I was very lucky to hear them in the Ukraine at
their Klezfest in September 2000. It is so good to see young musicians
playing klezmer in back in the Ukraine. The line-up of the band is violin,
clarinet, accordion, singer/tambourine. It won't surprise any of you who
heard them on the biomusic.hu link that they're all Conservatory educated
and serious about their klezmer. The leader is violinist Stas Raiko - you
can contact him at klezmer (at) mail(dot)ru
There are two other great groups I know of - Pereplet from Vinnitsya in West
Ukraine, also young Classical musicians by training who play a mixture of
Ukrainian folk and klezmer with some (close to OiVaVoi's heart) funk thrown
in
(line-up violin/viola/accordion/bass/drums).
Most special of all are a trio of old (in their 70s) musicians from
Simferopol called Khaverim, vocal, violin and accordion, they play really
wonderful Yiddish tangos amongst other things. I don;t know how many other
groups there are in th former Soviet Union where the musicians who learnt
their material before the war are still performing - taking into account
legendary Ukrainian anti-semitism and the impossibility of public
performance of Jewish music from Stalin's day until independence, this trio
are nothing short of a sensation (impeccable musicians too).
As part of the London Klezfest we are inviting these three groups to
perform, but I am most excited about the Khaverim trio. Yana in Kiev (
center (at) cjeu(dot)carrier(dot)kiev(dot)ua ) has arranged for them to record
their debut
CD. They are something so special, I'd like to try and garner as much
support for them as possible, organise as much coverage as possible. Their
story is surely worth being documented. ANybody who has any ideas of how to
help them, please contact me off-line.
Jonathan
www.oi-va-voi.com
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- Kharkov Klezmer Band,
jonathan walton