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| The Rough Guide to Klezmer Revolution (Rough Guide) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Dan Rosenberg
Publisher: World Music Network, Rough Guides
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $9.32
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Format: Audiobook, Compilation, Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 190606329X
EAN: 9781906063290
Publication Date: March 2009 (In 86 Days)
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The Rough Guide couldn't have gotten this klezmer anthology off to a better start if it offered free clarinet lessons with every disc. Spanning seven decades of Yiddish music, the first two cuts juxtapose the Klezmatics' raucous reading of "Fun Tashlikh" with the trailblazing original by Naftule Brandwein, whose charisma and raw talent set an impossibly high benchmark for the genre. The old versus new approach takes a twist with side-by-side modernistic and traditional versions of the Yiddish standard "Der Gassen Nigun." But here Harry Kandel's Orchestra strikes a blow for innovation back in 1923, while Klezmokum flaunts its chops with a delightful 1992 arrangement that tempers jazz borrowings with anachronistic rumblings. Thanks to 19th-century roots in the widely traveled Gypsy music of the Black Sea region, klezmer has enough elasticity to absorb a range of styles and influences without compromising its identity. The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band exercises hipster cool in its rekindling of a Brandwein classic, while the Klezmer Conservatory Band keeps tradition in its vest pocket on "Meron Nigh." Kroke's chamber-music meditation lends "The Secrets of the Life Tree" an esoteric edge worthy of the Kabbalah. For sheer energy, Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars prove that the real heavy metal issues from a horn ensemble. Whatever the permutation, klezmer emerges unscathed, fresh, and instantly recognizable. --Bob Tarte
Product Description
This eclectic collection celebrates the latest klezmer sounds, ranging from the reinterpretation of classic Yiddish lyrics to completely new texts, using non-traditional instruments, or no instruments at all. The Rough Guide to Klezmer Revolution departs from the concept of klezmer as solely Yiddish, or even Jewish music, inventing a new thrilling genre that has very little in common with the klezmer music of the 19th century. Welcome to the Klezmer Revolution!
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