Pretty serious stuff despite the silly name.
author: wildcoho
Despite the silly name (though we are Trek fans), this is pretty serious klezmer music. I bought it for my husband for Chanukah, and he was skeptical until he listened to it. I bought it because it came highly recommended on this website, and we weren't disappointed.
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Yup. It's another klezmer jamband, and another very fun one! More to the point,
author: klezmer shack
there's the Klingon Klezmorim, every bar mitzvah kid's (and their parents) dream. The album blurb claims klezmer music infused with jazz, funk, and dixieland. In practice, there's also a fair helping of chavurah-style nigun, some classical (esp. on "Vienna Freilach") and the occasional reminder of our non-religious Jewish roots as in the Yiddish Socialist "Anti-Fascist March" followed only a couple of songs later by "Zol Shoin Kumen"--the Messiah will come soon. . There's even some shtetl nostalgia! It's all accompanied by some lovely jamming. Yup. It's another klezmer jamband, and another very fun one! More to the point, a damn good band, musically. Damn, I really like this, especially when I need to speak to my dominant personality,
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