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MP3 Shtetl Band Amsterdam - The Bride's Waltz - New & Old Music for the Klezmer Violin
24 MP3 Songs in this album (57:32) !
Related styles: WORLD: Klezmer, SPIRITUAL: Jewish Folk
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"KLEZMER MUSIC IN ITS PUREST FORM" -- NIW, Dutch Jewish weekly magazine
European style Village Klezmer : This CD contains old world melodies never before recorded and a few brand new compositions and well-known klezmer tunes. Village Klezmer music is revitalized in a refreshing way! Music with happiness that is not worked up and sadness that is not schmaltzy.
Let the bride dance on the evening before her wedding!
As long as she dances she is not yet married...
The tunes on this CD are timeless - however
antique, well-known, rediscovered, dusted off or
newly composed they are. Klezmer music in the
Jewish culture in the old Eastern Europe was
functional music, mainly for weddings. The
klezmorim (musicians) led the wedding couple,
the family and the other guests through a rich
variety of dance tunes and emotionally charged
melodies. First, the guests were escorted to the
wedding by the klezmorim, who played Gasn
Nigunim (literally ‘alley melodies’). Before the
actual ceremony the bride had to be brought to
tears by predictions of the heavy life awaiting
her. After the marriage ceremony there was
festive dance music, alternated with slower
melodies for listening. All these interpretations,
rooted in a rich culture, were intense and pure
expressions of human emotions.
The klezmer sound produced by large ensembles
with many horn players is well-known. But for
centuries a different klezmer sound predominated
in Eastern Europan Jewish folk music.
It was a small-town, small-band sound. Having
the violin’s melody as its basis, this group sound
is mild, rich and nuanced. Groups and musicians
like Budowitz, Di Naye Kapelye, Alicia Svigals and
Veretski Pass have brought this older sound back
into its own place in the klezmer spectrum, and
now place it on the concert stage. In its short life
Shtetl Band Amsterdam has also become an
inspired and much in-demand exponent of this
Village Klezmer style.
After the founding of Shtetl Band Amsterdam
the musicians began an ongoing exploration of
the core of the sound and of the playing techniques
of klezmer music. They found instruments
that match the sound of a village orchestra: a
smaller accordion and bass, a bass drum with
an attached cymbal (poyk), a horn violin.
On The Bride’s Waltz you will hear Shtetl Band
Amsterdam play well-known tunes as well as old
melodies that were never recorded. In addition
to that, Gregor Schaefer wrote some brand new
compositions. The music on the CD has that
distinctive, ages-old village sound that seemed
to be lost and for which right now there’s a
growing audience again. Listen to the nuances
and subtleties of a small ensemble that plays
buzzing and bouncing klezmer music right from
the heart.
Musicians, let the bride dance!
The musicians on this cd are:
Bert Vos violin, horn violin, scordatura violin, founder
Instruments a 1690 Jacobs (Amsterdam) violin; a 1930
German horn violin; a Romanian scordatura violin made in
1999. Then: violin studies at Rubin Academy in
Israel; International Youth Orchestra directed by Lorin
Maazel; masterclasses in New York and Stuttgart; Gertler
String Quartet (Tel Aviv); Escher Ensemble.
Now: Sexteto Canyengue led by Carel Kraayenhof; leader,
Shtetl Band Amsterdam; Bonjour Madame trio; promoting
the work of my mother, the writer Ida Vos. “A Yidl mitn Fidl
from the shtetl Amsterdam, that’s me. Finally I play the
music with which I grew up.”
Roberto Haliffi drumset, poyk Instruments an
Amsterdam poyk that I built 2007; a drumset that I bought
in 1998. Then: jazz drummer in Italy; later gigged in the
Netherlands and abroad with Woody Shaw, Hans Dulfer,
Pia Beck, John Marshall, Rosa King, Denise Jannah. Now:
lots of jazz, pure klezmer, also crossovers with the
Klezmokum ensemble. “As a Sephardic-Jewish boy from
Libya I fled to Italy and ended up in Amsterdam, where I
am a proud poyk player, playing Eastern European
Jewish music. Life is a journey, enjoy the ride!”
Iefke Wang violin, viola Instruments: an Italian violin
circa 1760; a viola built by Möller in 1925, loaned by the
Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds. Then: violin studies
at Messiaen Academie and Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in
Italy; touring Colombia and Spain with string quintet
Ambrosia; Opera Trionfo, Kraayenhof Tango Ensemble,
Grup Yorum; Master Arts and Sciences. Now: all solo cantates
by Telemann on baroque violin; RBO Sinfonia; substituting
in the Gelders Orkest; teaching violin at Music
School Amsterdam. “Using my violin to let people dance,
that is what I want. I enjoy my waltz with these four men!”
Gregor Schaefer bassetl, artistic direction Instrument
a Bohemian bassetl from 1880, currently in restoration;
for the CD recordings a German bassetl made in 1970.
Then: in the 1990s jazz and balkan music; recorded
Transylvanian music in Sun Studios (Memphis) with the
group Csókolom; played a concert for 2000 hippies in
Australia; played in Tuzla (Bosnië) on a field while the
neighbours were hanging out of the windows singing the
songs with us. Now: klezmer, composing, Sephardic music,
ud, and also back to jazz.“In this group many things that
I enjoy come together: Jewish and Eastern European
bowing techniques, strong rhythms and melodies,
interaction within a small ensemble.”
Michiel Ockeloen accordion Instrument a Scandalli
Super VI accordion from the good old days, lent by Bart
Lelivelt for the CD recordings. Then: many music theatre
performances and lots of bands; played festivals in Zürich,
Linz en Cleveland with theatre group Huis aan de Amstel;
my formal studies were classical, world music became my
passion. Now: klezmer, tango, chorinho and many other
happy sounds from various regions of our planet; I also
teach and give workshops. “I am grateful for all good
things that come my way: music, playing together with
fine people, the great richness of experiences that life
offers.”
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