concert review: Shtreiml on tour in Europe

[Guenther Schoeller <lunearo...>]

Hi!

The canadian group Shtreiml is on tour now in Europe and played a
concert in Vienna last week. The band features Jason Rosenblatt on
diatonic harmonica (blues-harp), Josh Dolgin (a.k.a. DJ So-called) on
accordion and piano, Thierry Arsenault on drums and Ariel Harold on
bass. Guest-musician were Rachel Lemesh from Philadelphia on trombone
and Hans Breuer, an austrian yiddish singer. 
It is hard not to like this music. The harmonica is no traditional
instrument in Klezmer, but its sound fits wonderful to the sound of the
other instruments. I think that almost every instrument can be used to
play klezmer music, if you know what's typical for the style. These
guys definetly know the style, they know how to play there instrument
and they do it very well. 
Their repertoire is good mixture of original compositions, familiar
tunes from Beckerman, Mickey Katz and Kostakowsky and also some more
rare tunes they learned at KlezKanada. Singer Hans Breuer performed
mainly his own yiddish songs and also did a yiddish rap together with
Josh Dolgin, who is not only known for his Klezmer-goes-Hip Hop
performances (with David Krakauer or Frank London) but who is also a
fine accordion and piano player. Rachel Lemesh's trombone fitted
perfectly not only when she played accompaniment in the more faster
tunes, but also when she played second voice in the slower nigunim.
Maybe it would be a good idea if Shtreiml becomes a quintett instead of
a quartett.
All the list-members going to KlezKanada should look forward to hear
these guys and all the other ones: take the chance if you can hear them
when they play a concert near you. There is also a CD, but it seems
only to be available if you email them at their website
(www.shtreiml.com). The band continues their tour and plays at the
Crakow festival today I think and after that they play in Bulgaria.
They are back in Canada at the end of July.

Guenther Schoeller
Accordionist (and future tsimblist) of austrian Klezmer-band Narishe
Tantz
www.8ung.at/narishe_tantz
narishe_tantz (at) 8ung(dot)at


P.S. Jason gave me the CD of his brother Elie Rosenblatt and
list-member Pete Rushefsky. Their CD Tsimbl & Fidl is great. If you
like Khevrisa or Budowitz, you will definetely like this. 

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