Cayuga Klezmer Revival
Klezmology
Some violin chords come out of the speakers (sounding a little bit like "If I were a
rich man", Fiddler on the Roof, you know...), drums added, a clarinet ... and in those moderate allegro tempi,
making also Ravel's Bolero kinda irresistible to me, the melody arises. Pooh, thank God,
no Fiddler ... ;-) . The feet begin
to tap, the fingers to snap - and won't stop for the next hour. What happened?
The new - the first? the only? no matter - CD of the Cayuga Klezmer Revival from
Ithaka, NY (USA) had come flying into my CD player. Traditional hasidic music,
mixed with own composition of the band's members, all in a rhythm'n'blues arrangement,
occasionally touching the heavy metal boundary -
music, you'll never may want to miss again. "We learnt it by ear from other musicians
and recordings, by finding sheet music, by familiarity with melodies from childhood
and synagogue, and by writing our own music." So reads the inlay, as an answer
to the (hypothetical?) question: "How did you learn this music?" Well, "Klezmology"
may not be a kind of "puristic" Klezmer music, but exactly that is, what the
spirit of Klezmorim is. And won't you agree, that Klezmer is a topical music and
may pay it's tribute to actual musical trends? And finally - in his time even
Mozart was some kind of a "Rock'n'Roller"!
Short to say: my current favourite CD. And not only mine - it also made the first
place in Ari Davidow's
Klezmer TopTen.
Klezmology - Cayuga Klezmer Revival
- Noch a Gleyzl Vayn (Another glass of wine) (trad.) (mpeg3, 230 KB, 30 sec)
- Honga Tanz (trad. Rumanian)
- Doina (adapted from Naftule Brandwein) / Odessa Bulgar (trad.)
- Baym Rebben in Palestina (At the Rabbi in Palestine) (Broder Kapelle)
- Ukrainian (trad.)
- I want you should tell me (B. Kottler)
- "SB22" (Oy tate s'is gut / Man, oh man, that's good!) (trad.)
- Frailach (trad.)
- Kolomyka (trad.)
- Transsylvanian Wedding Tunes (trad.)
- The Klezmer Conspiracy (S. Kibel)
- Little Life (B. Kottler)
- Wanderer's Song (D. Muscat)
- Stav Ya Pitu (Hasidic) / Hanerot Halalu (trad.)
The musicians:
- Seth Kibel: clarinets, tenor and baritone saxophone, flute, accordion
- Fred Koslov: electr. bass
- Bennet Kottler: electr. and acoustic guitars
- Dan Muscat: tenor banjo, mandolin, electr. bass, upright bass
- Susan Stolovy: violin
- Jason Warshof: drums
Cayuga's Klezmer rules:
- All songs must be in d-minor (Bennet's law)
- All songs must end I-V-I (Seth's postulate)
- All bass lines shall consist of no more than 2 notes (Fred's rule)
And how to get this terrific CD?
First the price:
- CD: US$ 15.- for shipment inside USA, US$ 17.- for international shipment
- cassette: US$ 8.- for shipment inside USA, US$ 10.- for international shipment
Please send a check on this amount made out to Seth Kibel to (with best wishes from Detlev ;-)):
Seth Kibel
7106 Fairchild Dr., Apt. 203
Alexandria, VA 22306
Prices include shipping and handling (therefor additional US$ 2.- for the
international orders).
Seth also has an eMail address:smkibel@aol.com
And check out
the band's web site!