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SHIR
- a popular Jewish music quartet from London. Shir describe themselves
as playing “Complete Jewish Music” – Israeli, Ladino, Yiddish, Mizrahi,
Sephardi, simcha as well as klezmer and even liturgical, and do not like to
be pinned down to any one style.
The band was formed in 1997 by Ivor Goldberg and Maurice Chernick,
clarinetist/singer from Liverpool with a music degree from Cardiff University.
Piotr Jordan, the band’s virtuoso Polish violinist, was born in Lodz, studied
in Warsaw and Prague and moved to London in 1994. Robert Levy (double
bass) studied at Dornbirn Music School and at Bregenz Conservatory,
Austria. He works mainly in musical theatre and performs with other groups
including
Gregori Schechter’s Klezmer Festival Band
(ARC Music, EUCD 2317),
Klezmer Groover, Burning Bush
(ARC Music, EUCDs 1513, 2332, 2540) and
Loby Boby
(Brazilian jazz).
GREGORI SCHECHTER
is musical director, composer, arranger, clarinet and
saxophone player. From an early age, Gregori showed remarkable musical
skills. He studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in his home town of Alma-
Ata in Russia (today’s Almaty in Kazakhstan). After graduating, he performed
throughout the Soviet Union and he was soon a much sought-after player.
He became the principal saxophonist in a prestigious show band and is
experienced in playing and conducting almost every type of music.
THE BURNING BUSH
is one of Britain’s leading Jewish music ensembles,
specialising in music of both the Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions. Since
their sell-out debut concert at London’s South Bank, they have performed
to packed houses at major festivals and cultural events in the UK, Europe,
South America and the Far East. They broadcast regularly for the BBC
and have contributed soundtracks to several television documentaries,
commercials and feature films, most notably Polanski’s award-winning
‘The Pianist’.
There is a very particular charm about klezmer
music
that cannot be found in other styles of music.
It’s a kind of melancholic exuberance; at once
happy and sad, klezmer sounds simultaneously
like laughing and weeping.
Klezmer is a musical genre in a constant state of
evolution. Perhaps its history lends itself to this – the
original
klezmorim
were itinerant musicians who
would travel around the
shtetls
of Eastern Europe
performing at weddings and other occasions, until
displacement of the Jewish population in the late
19
th
and early 20
th
centuries saw klezmer make its
way to America where it met with jazz and other
western music.
These qualities make it very difficult to pinpoint
exactly what klezmer is today. To quote Gustavo
Bulgach, whose band Klezmer Juice feature on this
collection,
“klezmer is like a soapy pig. Everybody’s
trying to catch it, but every time someone gets a hold
of it, it slips away from them.”
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TRANSKAPELA
is an artistic project of four musicians acting in many areas of traditional music, trying to find its new
meaning and contemporary context. Their musical search revolves around the traditional music of various cultural regions:
Malopolska, Galicia, Bukovina, Hucul Region, Maramures, Transylvania, where they try to seek its roots, common elements and
the timeless values. The source music is their inspiration for their own interpretations and compositions.
SHE’KOYOKH
is a London-based ensemble dedicated to blending the sounds of wind, strings, brass and percussion with highly
charged emotion and energy in performing Eastern European folk music. Employing ornaments, phrasing and rhythms specific to
a variety of national folk styles, the group brings energy to Balkan, Greek and Turkish folk music, as well as to an extensive repertoire
of Ashkenazi Jewish melodies, once played in the
shtetls
of countries such as Poland, Romania and the Ukraine.
YALE STROM & HOT PSTROMI
Yale Strom
(composer,
arranger, violinist)
Yale Strom is the world’s leading ethnographer-artist of klezmer music, culture and history. His prodigious klezmer research was instrumental in
helping form the repertoire of his klezmer band, Hot Pstromi, based in New York and San Diego. Since Strom’s first band began in 1981,
he has been composing his own New Jewish music, which combines klezmer with Hasidic nigunim, Rom, jazz, classical, Balkan, Arabic
and Sephardic motifs. These compositions range from quartets to a symphony, which premiered with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
He composed original music for the Denver Center production of Tony Kushner’s The Dybbuk. He also composed all the New Jewish
music for the National Public Radio series Fiddlers, Philosophers & Fools: Jewish Short Stories from the Old World to the New, hosted
by Leonard Nimoy, as well as numerous film and dance scores. Strom is also one of the few top composers of Jewish music to carry
on the tradition of writing original songs, with English and Yiddish lyrics, about humanitarian and social issues.
Hot Pstromi
In 1981 Yale Strom trekked throughout the former Eastern Bloc countries searching for unknown, unpublished (and most often,
unwritten) klezmer and Yiddish tunes. Many of his informants - Jewish and Rom Holocaust survivors - had never met an
American before. Upon his return to the U.S. twelve months later, he formed Hot Pstromi in 1982. The original members of
Hot Pstromi, Fred Benedetti and Jeff Pekarek, continue to play with Yale today. Because Yale travels between San Diego and
NYC every month, Hot Pstromi includes members on the East coast (Peter Stan, David Licht, Sprocket and Norbert
Stachel) and one more West coast member, Tripp Sprague. In addition to Yale, singer Elizabeth Schwartz performs
with both ensembles. The band has performed throughout Europe, Canada, Mexico, the United States and in
Hong Kong.
JONTEF
The group Jontef met in 1988 at the State Theatre in Tübingen, Germany. They consist of Israel-born
Michael Chaim Langer
(singer, actor),
Joachim Günther
(clarinet, accordion, composer, arranger)
and Wolfram Ströle, virtuoso
violinist
and
guitarist.
Their repertoire consists of klezmer music
and Yiddish songs and stories.
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FROM BOTH ENDS OF THE EARTH
From Both Ends of the Earth began as a trio with three of Canada’s finest musicians meeting in a cross-
genre project: folk musician and banjo/string master Daniel Koulack from the klezmer group
Finjan
on bass; jazz pianist, composer and New Music performer Marilyn Lerner; and Russian émigré jazz
and classical saxophonist Sasha Boychouk on clarinet, sax and sopilka (Ukrainian flute).
The group was formed with an interest in interpretations of traditional Yiddish and Ukrainian
music in a modern light. After a series of highly successful concerts in Winnipeg, the group
expanded to include vocalist David Wall (formerly of the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir) and percussionist
Rick Lazar, both of whom are well versed in both Yiddish and contemporary music.
From Both Ends of the Earth play music from the past, with their hearts, and transform the infinitely rich
traditional music into music for today - thrilling, rhythmic, vibrant, and timeless.
Due to each of the musicians’ individual success and multiple other engagements, the band as above no longer
exists today.
RUBINSTEIN KLEZMER PROJECT
are three friends who first met in Norway and then in Bosnia and Herzegovina in
order to fulfil a dream. A dream of music, international and multicultural music, music across borders that respects
humanity, culture and religion. Music that comes from one person’s heart and goes right to the heart of the listener.
KLEZMER JUICE
Klezmer Juice bandleader and clarinet player Gustavo Bulgach was born and raised in a Jewish community in Buenos Aires,
Argentina. He learned klezmer music from his family at a young age. Bulgach has travelled around the globe, finding that
klezmer music is the “soundtrack of the diaspora.” While remaining true to klezmer’s Eastern European Jewish roots, Bulgach’s
Latin background and hipster credentials also led to a busy career performing with other internationally-acclaimed acts, such
as Yusef Lateef, Adam Rudolph, Chris Botti and with the legendary Bennie Maupin. Klezmer Juice also was the house band for
the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance. Bulgach represents the new generation of Jewish soul musicians, torchbearers of an
ancient traditional craft that unites generations in spirit.
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Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi
The Burning Bush
Klezmer Juice
Shir
Rubinstein Klezmer Project
She’Koyokh
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Transkapela

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