Klezmer Podcast Playlist June 2015

The June Playlist is now available on Spotify:

Ger Mandolin Orchestra 2013 - Toronto

Maccabi Chai (European Maccabi Games 2015 Berlin)

New video from Jewdysee:

The Glass House Orchestra - Furfangos Frigyes (composed by Szirtes Edina...

The Glass House Project began as a tribute to the 70th Anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary. The intention was to look at the largest picture of pre-war Hungarian music and to represent the breadth and scope of Hungarian musics from many traditions, with a focus on the incredibly rich and diverse Hungarian Jewish musical landscape. 



Members:

Frank London (trumpet) Pablo Aslan (bass), Aram Bajakian (guitar) Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) Yoni Halevy (drums) Edina Szirtes Mókus (violin, voice), Miklós Lukács (cimbalom/tsimbl), Béla Ágoston (winds)

Interview with Ljova Lev Zhurbin

Closer Emigre Ljova Zhurbin by Jewishmusicinstitute on Mixcloud

Join City of London Sinfonia for this modern-day tale of immigration from Russian to the USA with music by New York composer and musician, Ljova. Coming from a family who moved from Moscow to New York as communism fell in 1990, Ljova’s unique musical voice combines classical music with his own blend of Russian folk, jazz, Balkan gypsy and Klezmer. Performing on viola and violin alongside the Orchestra, this exciting CLoSer concert sees Ljova bring his haunting and exciting music to East London.

Klezmer Podcast 123- Litvakus

Zisl Slepovitch

Klezmer Podcast 123- Litvakus. This episode features an interview with Zisl Slepovitch of the new band Litvakus, from Brooklyn. They have just released their first album Raysn- The Music of Jewish Belarus. Zisl is a great musician, singer, musicologist, and Yiddishist. Originally from Minsk, Belarus, he brings the music of that region to New York, where he blends the traditional repertoire with his own original works. We hear the track Zisl’s Sher and Karahod from the album.

Run time: 30:15.
Listen here:

Duo Doyna: "Sammys Freilach" with improvised Doina

New music from Berlin:







http://www.doyna.de/