Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars - Carnival Conspiracy

On occasion of the jewish Pessach - which this year coincides with solar Bircat Hachama - I thought of posting some traditional jewish music, or maybe original klezmer songs, but then I remembered this record, which is a modern day recording of a klezmer band (New York based) which mixes in music from several countries (there´s 40 musicians here, from 8 different countries), like mexican horns and the brazilian rhythm of maracatu.

Somewhat appropriate, since jews have been a wandering people. And Manhattan jewdom was born when jews migrated there from Recife (the city of maracatatu) in 1650 (when the portugueses overran the dutch colony in the northeast of Brazil).

This record is a mishmash of sounds celebrating carnaval, joyous and raucous, then funereally picking up the pieces at the end.


Por ocasião do Pessach judaico - que este ano coincide com a cerimonia solar de Bircat Hachama - pensei em postar algo da música tradicional judaica, ou grupos originais de klezmer, mas aí lembrei deste disco, gravação recente de uma banda de klezmer (sediada em Nova Iorque), que mistura música de vários países (tem 40 músicos de 8 países neste disco), como os toques de metais mexicanos e tambores de maracatu.

Um tanto apropriado, por tanto, já que os judeus vagaram pelo mundo. E a colonia judaica de Manhattan surgiu quando judeus recifenses migraram para lá em 1650, com o Novo Holanda daqui virando a Nova Amsterdam de lá (e Recife é a terra do maracatu).

O disco é uma mistureba celebrando o carnaval, alegre, baderneiro, para no fim, funereamente, recolher os confetes pelo chão.





Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars - Carnival Conspiracy (2006)

In your Garden Twenty Fecund Fruit Trees
2 Oh Agony, You are So Sweet Like Sugar I Must to Eat You Up
3 Another Glass of Wine to Give Succor to My Ailing Existence
4 Midnight Banda Judía
5 In the Marketplace All Is Subterfuge (Podolye, Podolye)
6 Who Knows One?
7 Pantagruel, Shiker Hindert Prozent
8 A Time of Desire - Curha Mix
9 Our Ancestors Forty Thousand Years Wide
10 Out of What?
11 Mi Yamalay
12 Borracho # 1 The Cobbles in the Street Moan for You

main musicians:
Frank London, trumpet, peck horn
Susan Hoffman Watts, trumpet
Merlin Shepherd, clarinet
Matt Darriau, clarinet, saxophone
Alex Kontorovich, clarinet, saxophone
Curtis Hasselbring, trombone, skronk guitar
Jacob Garchik, baritone horn, trombone
Ron Caswell, tuba
Mark Rubin, tuba, baritone horn, tex-mex guitar
Aaron Alexander, drums



artwork by richard kenigsman

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