Re: On and off topic: The next computer virus and Old/New World klezmer

[Sandra Layman <sandralayman...>]

Would it be dreadfully out of place for me to slip in a mention of my CD,
"Little Blackbird," which consists of mostly live recordings from way,
waaaay back in 1982-85, of klezmer and related violin music played in
traditional styles?

I learned those klezmer tunes starting in 1978, from 78 r.p.m. recordings.
In fact, some say that all that's missing on my CD is the scratches. Others
say that scratching is my specialty. ;-)

Still others are mad at me 'cuz ma feet's too big -- and maybe because I was
mostly doing all this fiddlistic cavorting way out in a damp corner in
Seattle. Of all places!

Sandra ("Dinosaur Stirs in the West") Layman
www.sandralayman.com


Now, back to our regularly-scheduled brooding about shul dues and komputer
krenks...


----- Original Message -----
From: "George Robinson" <grcomm (at) concentric(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:20 PM
Subject: On and off topic: The next computer virus and Old/New World klezmer


> Khaverim --
>
> Well, we've settled the Middle East, the cost of Jewish community and
> computer viruses. What else can we discuss on this list? Oh, yeah, how
about
> Jewish music?
>
> But first, a word from our sponsor.
>
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>
> And now for something completely different, a question about Jewish music.
>
> I was listening earlier today to the new CD by Fialke -- very nice by the
> way. With guest artist Joshua Horowitz on tsimbl, the recording is the
> latest of many that seem to me to be hearkening back to an earlier version
> of Jewish simkha music (what we now call, for better or worse, klezmer).
My
> gut tells me that with Alicia Svigals' "Fidln'" album and Khevrisa and
> Budowitz we began to see a new trend in the New Klez world, an attempt to
> create a modern equivalent for an earlier music, some of it
> pre-recording-era and all of it really rooted in the old Eastern European
> traditions, rather looking ahead to a more "new world" sound.
>
> Maybe I'm full of . . . stuff, but my instinct tells me that there is
> something slightly different going on in these records than in the more
> swing-pop-oriented music of the first waves of New Klez (i.e., the
> Klezmorim, KCB, Kapleye, not to mention all the jazz-and-other-hyphenate
> bands).
>
> I know that many of the musicians in question are on this list and I'm
dying
> to hear from all of you. Let me warn you beforehand that I'm considering
> doing a think piece for JWeek on this, so unless you ask me not to, I may
> quote you, Ari permitting.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> George (Back to the Future -- or to the Wall) Robinson
>


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