Re: Lorele - review in Sing Out! by Seth Rogovoy

Mucho Mazel, Lorele!!!!
Trudi the G

>From: Lori Cahan-Simon

>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org

>To: World music from a Jewish slant

>Subject: Lorele - review in Sing Out! by Seth Rogovoy

>Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 07:38:49 -0400

>Khaveyrim,

>I want to share with you a very nice review of my CD, "Songs My

>Bubbe Should Have Taught Me, Volume One: Passover", by our own Seth

>Rogovoy (author of "The Essential Klezmer") which appears on p. 164

>in the Fall 2002 issue of Sing Out! magazine. It comes just before

>a review of Sandra Layman's "Little Blackbird". There are other

>klez reviews in the same issue.

>"In the desire to cast off the ways of the old world and in the

>ashes of the Nazi death camps, most of the songs included here have

>been lost or forgotten by the majority of Yiddish performers. But

>in the first of what will presumably be a series of recordings

>documenting Yiddish songs for all occasions, singer/folklorist Lori

>Cahan-Simon collects fourteen Yiddish Passover songs and performs

>them with her top-notch ensemble of local and national Yiddish vocal

>and klezmer talent.

>On half the numbers, Cahan-Simon shares vocal duties with Michael

>Alpert, best known for his work with klezmer group Brave Old World.

>The instrumentalists include Steven Greenman, violinist for the

>group Khevrisa, cymbalomist Alezandr Fedoriouk, who has worked with

>jazz artist Herbie Mann and John Cale of the Velvet Underground, and

>Walt Mahovlich, who currently leads the East European folk group

>Harmonia.

>A work of incalculable folkloric value, as well as an entertaining

>and educational tool, Cahan-Simon's CD is well-annotated with

>extensive background notes and complete lyrics, transliterated and

>translated into English. The musicianship is on a very high level,

>and Cahan-Simon is a compelling, theatrical vocalist, whether she is

>tackling the cantorial-style, rubato phrases of "Avodim Hoyinu (We

>Were Slaves)" or the intimate cabaret-pop of "In dem land fun

>piramidn (In the Land of Pyramids)" by "sweatshop poet" Dovid

>Edelshtadt. "Shvimt dos kestl afn nil (The Little Basket Floats on

>the Nile)", laced with flute by Mahovlich, has an appropriately

>Middle Eastern feel to it, and "Dayeynu" is rendered in an upbeat,

>klezmer-to-jazz arrangement. The highlight of the recording is the

>swinging, imaginative duet between Cahan-Simon and Alpert on "Der

>Bekher (Tayere Malke)". Henry Shapiro's acoustic bass keeps the

>tune moving at a speedy pace, and the musicans interpolate eight

>rollicking, traditional klezmer tunes in between the verses."

>You can get your very own copy from various vendors around the world

>or by emailing me at:

>L_Cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org (I can take Visa)

>or from CD baby

>http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lcahan

>or from Simon at Hatikvah

>www.hatikvahmusic.com

>Thanks for indulging me,

>Lorele

>--

>You can now hear Lori's new CD, Songs My Bubbe Should Have Taught

>Me; Vol.1: Passover, at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/lcahan Only $15 &

>postage. Email me for more info.