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Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird - The Broken Tongue - $18.99
(cdRoots# rien-73)
Kahn and his band concoct a mixture of Klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk folk, kept together by Kahn's amazing abilities both as a songwriter and a performer; telling stories of outrageous incidents, poetically dark, tragically humorous and politically incorrect. This 2009 release continues their explorations

Di Naye Kapelye - Traktorist: Carpathian Klezmer - $18.99
(cdRoots# rien-69)
Di Naye Kapelye goes 50ies-socialism? After a lot of hunting the indefatigable fieldworker Bob Cohen researched a socialist build-up song in yiddish - the scrumptious "Traktorist", praising not only the tractor itself and the five-year plan performance, but also, if not to say mainly, the bigger chances of a tractor driver to hit on the girls. Again, Di Naye Kapelye reaffirms their outstanding role regarding Jewish music from the Carpathian Basin - authentic, rough and tender, danceable and soaked with a deep and true love for the heritage that's treasured by these passioned musicians ever since we can remember.

Kroke - Seventh Trip - $18.99
(cdRoots# rien-63)
Kroke didn't get lost in the dark grounds of a midlife crisis, and this seventh album is more than an itch of desire. Their music has developed from what is regarded as traditional klezmer but their music is definately forward-looking, perhaps even a little avant garde.

Polina Shepherd Vocal Experience - Baym Taykh - $18.99
(cdRoots# rien-64)
Singer, composer and pianist Polina Shepherd, of Russian-Jewish descent, lives and works in Brighton,UK with her husband Merlin Shepherd (clarinet, guitar, saxophone). They are among the most innovative musicians in the Jewish Music scene in Europe today - be it New Yiddish Song or Classic Klezmer. With Quartet Ashkenazim they range from beautiful unison to skilfully executed four part harmony. The traditional ornamentation and modes of the songs are known and yet the new melodies suggest that the tradition has never been broken. The songs cover many themes and are settings of Yiddish poems. Highly recommended.

Edyta Geppert and Kroke - Spiewam zycie – I sing life - $18.99
(cdRoots# rien-61)
The well-known Polish klezmer innovators join with one of Poland's finest singers of folk and chanson for a special release of music that avoids being penned in by categories like world music, folk or chanson. The distinctive instrumental style of Kroke, based on their Jewish and East European roots, joins perfectly the expressive voice of Edyta and the ambitious lyrics of the Polish songs.

Klezmatics - Rise Up! - $10.99
(cdRoots# roun-3197)
The LONG awaited return of one of the genres most innovative and challenging bands

Margot Leverett and The Klezmer Mountain Boys - Second Avenue Square Dance! - $16.99
(cdRoots# tc-4339)
Clarinetist Leverett and the band expand their repertoire beyond bluegrass and klezmer to rock, jazz, Latin and American music while continuing their unique, hybrid interpretations of standards made famous by Bill Monroe and Dave Tarras, Second Ave. Guest appearances by electric guitarist, Jorma Kaukonen, Hazel Dickens, Tony Trischka, Darol Anger, David Grier, Mike Marshall, David Licht, Hankus Netsky, Carlos Oliviera, Dudley Connell, Ronnie Simpkins, and Bobby Shankin.

Moshe Berlin Ensemble - Aeinu! - $19.99
(cdRoots# hm-sm1628)
Aneinu! contains repertoire from the Israeli hasidic-orthodox klezmer tradition. The field recordings of Israel's foremost klezmer clarinetist, Moshe Berlin, were made by ethnomusicologist Joel Rubin in a yeshiva during the ceremony celebrating the end of the holiday Simchat Torah. They show the vital role that the music of the klezmorim and the ecstatic singing of nigunim (melodies of spiritual elevation) play among orthodox Jews, displaying at the same time a microcosm of the variety of ethnic and cultural influences to be found in the musical traditions of Israel today.

Di Grine Kuzine - Berlin Wedding - $14.99
(cdRoots# sky-wed)
More klezmer intuitions from the Germany-based ensemble, firmly rooted, decidedly modern and wildly energetic. Great musicianship and vocals by a wonderful group of artists. 2006 release.

The Merlin Shepherd Kapelye - Intimate Hopes and Terrors - Tales from the Kishkes - $17.99
(cdRoots# rien-58)
Musician, teacher and interpreter of traditional East European klezmer clarinet is joined by the former Soviet Union Klezmer All Stars or, in his own words, some of the greatest klezmer players in the world today. Klezmer played with such passion, Jewish music directly from the heart, the soul, music from the gut, the kishkes, the very center of the human spirit. Jewish music that comes closer to one of the many ways that it may or probably may not have sounded so long ago.

Konsonans Retro - A Podolian Affair - $17.99
(cdRoots# rien-62)
In the southeast of Podolia, just a few minutes from the Moldavian border, you'll find the home of the Baranovskys family. In this region Ukrainians played with Moldovans, with Jews, with Gypsies and Russians, sharing their music and making something new. The musicisn of this extended family offer a fresh look at the unique traditions of their home, music that is steeped in the sounds of klezmer but also, so much more.

Joel Rubin Ensemble - Midnight Prayer - $15.99
(cdRoots# tc-4332)
Rubin is one of the leading performers of instrumental klezmer music and has spent the last 14 years in Germany and Eastern Europe researching and performing the old Russian Jewish klezmer tradition.He is joined on this marvelous recording by a great group of musicians, including Kálmán Balogh, Ferenc Kovács and David Chernyavsky.

Helmut Eisel and Band - Klezmer at the Cotton Club - $16.99
(cdRoots# wp-eisel)
The German clainetist and his band perform a 'what if' and recreate what klezmer might have sounded like if it had been nurtured at NY's most important jazz emporium. It's fine stuff, and the band us more than up to the task, featuring Michael Marx on guitar, Stimme Stefan Engelmann on double bass, Nino Deda on accordion and Jochen Krämer on drums and percussion. They cover klezmer classics, jazz and blues standards (Handy, Ellington, Calloway) and Eisel's originals (like Rondo alla Klez) are stand-outs on this excellent recording. The sound is unique, and it swings like crazy.

Tummel - Oy! - $16.99
(cdRoots# cda-tummel)
This Nordic klezmer unit is based in Malmö, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark, and their agressive style of playing the music is fresh and interesting. This is their first release, 2001, that started it all.

David Krakauer, Socalled and Klezmer Madness - Bubbemeises:Lies My Gramma Told Me - $17.99
(cdRoots# hm-krakauer06)
Clarinetist Krakauer strikes again, as he teams up with Jewish hip hop beat architect Socalled and the ensemble Klezmer Madness!, remixing Hasidic chant, klezmer tributes to James Brown and all manner of musical merriment. It's not your old Jewish bubbe's music anymore.

Andy Statman - East Flatbush Blues - $17.99
(cdRoots# hm-statman1)
A 2006 followup (after 25 years!) to the legendary Flatbush Waltz by mandolinist Andy Statman. Crossing seamlessly across genres, from American jazz, blues, bluegrass to folk and klezmer, he relentlessly searches for new ideas. This new recording has traditional folk and blues, and some stark, original songs.

Andy Statman - Awakening From Above - $17.99
(cdRoots# hm-statman2)
This 2006 release by the mandolin (and many other instruments!) master CD focuses on the meditative and ecstatic centuries-old melodies that lie at the heart of Jewish music. Spare arrangements, loose improvisation and expressive depth are in evidence throughout the recording. In solos, duets and trios, he galvanize the klezmer roots with jazz and other folk and ethnic styles to create his own unique Jewish instrumental music.

Romashka - Romashka - $15.99
(cdRoots# romashka-1)
They call it 'Russian and Romanian Gypsy muzica for dancing and dreaming.' This Brooklyn based 8 pieces band of international conpirators provides far more, with a great, wild attitude and virtuoso performances. With the voice of Inna Barmash in the lead, the tuba, bass, percussion, accordion, violin, trumpet, reeds and guitar of Romashka will certainly have you dancing and dreaming.

Budapest Klezmer Band - Train 7.40 - $16.99
(cdRoots# fono-bkb-train)
Besides traditional Jewish compositions, the album contains pieces from the Budapest production of'Fiddler on the roof'.

Riccardo Joshua Moretti - Il canto di Israele / The song of Israel - $17.99
(cdRoots# cni-moretti)
Performed by the Midrash Music Ensemble. Italian composer Moretti explores Jewish and klezmer music from a deep and unusual perspective, looking to classical roots for inspiration, but also at home in the worlds of Rota and Morricone. An unexpected revelation.

Klezmatics with Joshua Nelson and Kathryn Farmer - Brother Moses Smote The Water - $17.99
(cdRoots# hm-pir1896)
Klezmer meets gospel: the one and only Klezmatics, with renowned gospel artists Joshua Nelson and Kathryn Farmer, breathe new life into songs from both the Jewish and African-American heriage to tell a story of inspiration and social action, while weaving a revelatory dialogue between cultures and musial styles. Their first live album, recorded during the HeimatKlänge at MuseumsInselFestival in Berlin, Germany, includes 8 new and 2 classic songs.

Mikveh - Mikveh - $16.99
(cdRoots# tc-mikveh)
Featuring Lauren Brody (accordion), Margot Leverett (clarinet), Nicki Parrott (double bass), Adrienne Cooper (voice), and Alicia Svigals (violin)

Tummel - Transit - $16.99
(cdRoots# tummel1)
The Swedes seem to have a new passion for Balkan and other eastern European music, and Tummel present their own brand: tough, raw, often harshly electric, but always soulful and full of the original 'heavy metal' of the European brass band. Klezmer, Balkan dance tunes, Arabic touches and a defiantly original streak define this band's music.

Nigun - Klezz Jazz - $13.99
(cdRoots# hg-nigun-klez)
This Hungarian bands mixes Jewish music (folk, klezmer, Sephardic, and sacred) with jazz and free-improvisative elements. This music is characterized by both the melodic turns of Jewish music and improvisational elements. The aim of Nigun is not only preserving heritage but creating new values.

Margot Leverett and The Klezmer Mountain Boys - Margot Leverett and The Klezmer Mountain Boys - $16.99
(cdRoots# tc-klez-mtn)
Klezmer clarinetist Margot Leverett joins forces with today's stars of klezmer and bluegrass to explore the shared musical spirit of two genres literally worlds apart. Appalachian tunes by Bill Monroe meet klezmer melodies from pre-war Russia and Eastern Europe, some newly discovered, and the resulting medleys and improvisations are at once raw, funny, melancholic and footstomping. Featuring bluegrass legends such as Kenny Kosek on fiddle, Barry Mitterhoff on mandolin, with special klezmer guests including Frank London and The Klezmer Brass Allstars, Michael Albert and many more.

David Krakauer with SoCalled and Klezmer Madness! - Live in Krakow - $17.99
(cdRoots# hm-krakauer-live)
Jazz/klezmer clarinet David Krakauer presents a hot set recorded at one of Poland's Indigo Club. Over four nights, Krakauer and his band Klezmer Madness! whipped the audience into a frenzy with what sounds like a Sly Stone-style funk Bar Mitzvah, with more than a touch of New York free jazz. The mix is made even spicier by the presence of young Canadian DJ SoCalled, whose beats and samples take this disc up a notch.

Solomon and Socalled - Hiphop Khasene - $17.99
(cdRoots# hm-socalled)
Solomon and Socalled's cast of musicians, including special guest. David Krakauer, turn an authentic Eastern European Jewish wedding, the khasene, into a hiphop extravaganza complete with old-school Yiddish freestylin' on the mike from shtetl-MC Michael Alpert. Come join the wedding party, share in ancient marriage rituals and celebrate the union of fiddle and microphone! The album also includes a special, exclusive remix from Smadj.

Klezroym - Sceni - $17.99
(cdRoots# cni-klezroym-sceni)
This outstanding klezmer ensemble is based in Italy, and they forage into the world of Jewish music, tinged with contemporary jazz, deeply rooted in Eastern European and Mediterranean musical traditions. The group plays musicthat crosses borders and mixes different cultures effortlessly, and on this recording they are graced with two guest musicians that complete the circle: the Arab artists Karam Abdelmagid (oud) and Abdullah Mohamed (darbouka).

Various Klezmer artists - The Soul of Klezmer (2 CDs and book) - $36.99
(cdRoots# hm-klezmer)
Ranges from the soulful yearning of ballads to the sheer abandon of wedding dances and the virtuosity of instrumental improvisations. The main instruments are violin, clarinet and accordion. Whether they are played in small and intimate groups or in big band combinations, they invariably convey the unique and unmistakable sound of klezmer music. With: Brave Old World, Ava Gold and The Epstein Brothers, The Klezmatics, Kapelye, The Chicago Klezmer Ensemble, Muzsikás, Kasbek, Klezmer Plus, New Orleans Klezmer All Stars, Budowitz, Klezmorim, Alicia Svigals, Budapester Klezmer Band, Kroke, Dave Tarras, Naftule Brandwein, Abe Schwartz' Orchestra, Andy Statman Quartet, Zev Feldman, David Grisman, Sam Musiker and his Orchestra, Frank London, Lorin Skalmberg, Uri Caine

David Krakauer - A New Hot One - $17.99
(cdRoots# hm-krakauer)

L'Attirail - Kara Deniz - $temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# fp-karadeniz)
The 6th album of music from the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean by this wonderful French band. The title means Black Sea in Turkish, symbolizing the meeting of Slav, Greek, Romanian, Albanian influences, and the convergence of Christian, Jewish, Muslim ideals of the region. `Formed as a duet by guitarist Xavier Demerliac, they are now a quintet, (plus a host of guests from all overt he region), playing trumpet, clarinet, doudouk, flutes, drums and percussion, double bass, accordion and violin. It's an imaginary landscape where Balkan, Gypsy, klezmer, cabaret, and more all peacefuly coexist in musical harmony.

Traband - Hyjé! - $temp out of stock
(cdRoots# ind-hyje)
A mix of folk, punk, ska, hip-hop, country and folk music from all possible corners of the world, with an emphasis on the Balkans and Jewish klezmer (and a healthy dose of Moravia, Ireland, Bretagne, Mexico and Peru) drives this Czech band forward. The bass drums and guitars are heartily augmented by tuba, trumpet, bass flugelhorn, clarinet, banjo, accordion and more for a street sound that is irresistible.

Enrico Fink - Lokshen: patrilineare - un racconto - $temp out of stock-19.99
(cdRoots# matson-lokshen)
Jewish Italian composer Fink and his ensemble of clarinet, baritone and tenor sax, guitar, percussions and voice, retraces a journey through the culture and history of a generation of Italian and European Jews.

Klezroym - Yankele nel Ghetto - $temp out of stock-18.99
(cdRoots# cni-klezroym2)
Klezroym's last production is an original elaboration of the songs of the Lodz Ghetto, collected in Gila Flam's book 'Singing for survival, Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-45,' presented as a song suite.

Kroke - The Sounds of the Vanishing World - $temp out of stock-18.99
(cdRoots# rien-24)
In a world of unlimited communication and millennium hysteria, Kroke want us to think about things that are really important in life: Earth, Water, Fire and Love (all titles on this recording). It is also about the important events of the last decades. Basing their work on the Eastern European and Balkans tradition of Klezmer music, they also include jazz, improvisation, pop, avant-garde music and much more. These three musicians, well known in Klezmer circles, are always exciting and full of surprises, breaking new ground with their music at each turn. This 2000 release, like their others, was produced in Krakow, itself a symbol of 'the disappearing world.'

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