The Klezmatics & Chava Albertstein - Well (CD)

Well
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Release Date:09/15/1998
Label:Xenophile Records
UPC:048248405225

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  • All Music Guide

    When Israeli singer Chava Alberstein produced a documentary film on 20th-century Yiddish poets in 1995 (Too Early to Be Quiet, Too Late to Sing), the writers' stories provoked Alberstein to set some of their poems to music. The results are gathered on The Well, with vocals by Alberstein and music performed by the Klezmatics. The compositions reflect Alberstein's wide range of influences, from klezmer and traditional Jewish music to French chanson, German cabaret, American folk, and Middle Eastern styles all popping up.

    - Steve Huey, All Music Guide

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The Klezmatics

The Klezmatics take one of the wildest approaches to klezmer, the traditional dance music of the eastern European Jews. Although their music is heavily influenced by the recordings of Abe Ellstein and Dave Tarras in the 1940s and 1950s, their lyrics comment on a wide variety of political and social issues and have led the group to be labeled, “the planet's radical Jewi... Read more