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Search the KlezmerShack: Veretski Pass with Joel Custom Search Rubin / Poyln: A Gilgul Note that the latest stuff may Review | Personnel | Songlist not yet be indexed. Veretski Pass with / Poyln: A Gilgul For further Golden Horn Records, GHP-040- information about 2, 2015 Veretski Pass: www.goldenhorn.com Available in the US from Don't miss cdbaby.com Veretski Pass' first album (2004) their live Oh, my. Take one of my favorite bands, Veretski second album, Pass. It already contains three of the most Trafik, 2008, or The Klezmer experienced, skilled, and expressive klezmer Shul (2011). musicians in the world. Add in Joel Rubin, one of their few compatriots about whom the same could be Cookie Segelstein said. Rubin and tsimbalist Horowitz toured together is also a member of the Klezical in the mid-90s, and also spent considerable time in Tradition and the field, gathering the shards of what survived the appears on the Holocaust. Rubin and Brotman were half of the following albums seminal klezmer revival band, Brave Old World. reviewed on the Klezmershack: Professor Rubin is an acknowledged scholar of Polish Jewish music, something that has evolved The more slowly following the murder of most of the Klezical Tradition / Polish Jewish community in the Holocaust. If you Family are klezmorim, there is an obvious response. Gather Portrait, 1998 old Polish urban and rural music. Mix in what you Adrianne learned from your own and your colleagues Greenbaum ethnographic recordings and field research. And / transform it all into the music that might have been FleytMuzik, 2002 created had their been no Holocaust, as Jewish Klezmer klezmer forms mix with the old Polish melodies and Bands update Hasidic and klezmer repertoire. Helfen Kosovo, The result sparkles with life. From the opening "the 1999 Joshua Horowitz is Master's Song," the album proceeds through several also a member of suites of sparkling music. Sometimes it sounds more Budowitz and like a Polish contradance than klezmer as we know appears on the following albums it. Sometimes, the tunes feel so familiar—but they're reviewed on the newly klezmerized, as in the "Polka Szarpana." Klezmershack: Others are newer—new enough to have a named Budowitz / composer, as the sad, end-of-the-wedding-ish Mother "Gedankn" by Majer Bogdanski. Tongue, 1997 As I said, not all of the material is non-Jewish. That's Budowitz / what happens when you mine the rural folk Wedding without a traditions of people who once mixed together (not bride, 2000 always, but sometimes to make music). Some of the Fialke / A material comes from previously unknown Hasidic grus fun der alter melodies. Some, like the "Kylver Kozak," in "Rich heym, Guests" suite, is traditional. Horowitz's 2003 dances with exuberance as Brotman's bass cello Adrianne keeps the beat. Others, like Joel Rubin's "Dinover Greenbaum / Doina," ("The Dirge" suite) were composed just FleytMuzik, yesterday. 2002 Joshua The album title comes from a story by the popular Horowitz & Yiddish author IL Peretz. It is not my favorite story. Joel Rubin / On the surface, it is shmaltz and bathos. But it is also Bessarabian satire and recreation of rural Jewish life and Hasidic Symphony, 1993 belief. Here, there is no shmaltz nor bathos, but Alicia Veretski Pass and Joel Rubin instead take these Svigals / threads of urban and rural Polish life and folkways, Fidl, 1997 Hasidic and Polish, and weave them into a piece that Rough can be enjoyed simply as traditional Jewish music (if Guide to Klezmer, composed of many modern threads). On another 2000 level, it is a delightful kick in the balls to those who Doyres tried to eradicate this culture and who did succeed in (Generations)murdering millions. We're still here. Still creating. Traditional Klezmer And the music still kicks ass. Recordings 1979 - This is Eastern European klezmer. No brass. No 1994 drum kit. But just about the most exquisite , Klezmer Music : A , accordion, tsimbl, or bass cello you'll ever Marriage heard. And music that swings and bows and glides of Heaven along, from dance tunes to sad doinas to thoughtful and Earth hasidic nigns. It's not just music. It is life in its next Stuart Brotman is gilgul, here, now. It suspect that it is also music that also a member of sounds familiar, deeply listenable, and danceable to Brave Old World fans of traditional Polish music as well. Get a few and appears on the following copies, share them, and see for yourself. albums reviewed on the Reviewed by Ari Davidow, 23 July 2016. Klezmershack: Personnel this recording: Brave Old World / Cookie Segelstein: violin Klezmer Joel Rubin: C clarinet Music, Joshua Horowitz: , tsimbl 1990 Stu Brotman: bass cello Brave Old World / Beyond Songs the Pale, 1992 The Master Brave Old World / 1. The Master's Song (comp. arr. Joshua Horowitz) 2:25 Royte 2. Petrikever Promenade (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 1:45 Pomarantsn (Blood 3. Raysher Krakowiak (trad. arr. Cookie Segelstein) 2:00 Oranges, 1997 The Street Brave Old World / 4. Belfer's Overture (trad. arr. Cookie Segelstein, Stuart Bless the Brotman) 2:44 Fire, 2003 5. Bottler's Gallop (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 3:10 Brave Old 6. Polka Szarpana (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 1:45 World / Song of the Lodz The Dirge Ghetto, 2005 7. Dinover Doina (comp. Joel Rubin) 2:07 Brave Old 8. Dinover Nign (trad. arr. Veretski Pass, Joel Rubin) 3:17 World, et 9. Reb Chaiml's Freylekhs (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 2:01 al / Metropolis The Rich Guests Shanghai: Showboat 10. The Old Way (comp. Joshua Horowitz) 2:05 to China, 2005 11. Kyiver Kozak (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 3:06 Khevrisa / 12. Hutsul Kin (trad. arr. Cookie Segelstein) 1:51 European Klezmer The Theater Music, 2000 13. Gedankn (comp. Majer Bogdanski, arr. Veretski Pass) Itzhak 2:29 Perlman / 14. Prince and Princess (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 2:53 In the 15. Dark House Oberek (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 2:07 Fiddler's House, The Organ Grinder 1995 Itzhak 16. The Rake's Chant (comp. Cookie Segelstein, arr. Perlman / Veretski Pass) 1:10 Live in the 17. Stefciu, The Tumbler (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 1:40 Fiddler's House, 18. Acrobat Polka (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 1:23 1996 San The Beggar Francisco Klezmer 19. I Went Away (Cookie Segelstein) 2:59 Experience 20. Beggar's Hymn (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 1:58 / Zing!, 21. Ghost Light (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 1:54 1998 Steven The Scholar Greenman / 22. The Blind Orphan (trad. arr. Cookie Segelstein) 0:55 Stempenyu's Neshome, 23. Luminous Kujawiak (trad. arr. Cookie Segelstein, 2010 Stuart Brotman) 1:23 Rough 24. Katzner's Obereks (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 2:10 Guide to Klezmer, The Rabbi 2000 Klezmagic 25. Silver Bell (comp. Joshua Horowitz) 1:33 compilation, 26. Warshaver Dance House (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 1997 3:27 Doyres 27. The Lamden's Mazurkas (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) (Generations) 2:07 Traditional Klezmer The Disciples Recordings 1979 - 28. Gilgul (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 1:21 1994 29. Petrikever Recessional (trad. arr. Cookie Segelstein, Klezmer Joshua Horowitz) 2:11 Music : A Marriage 30. Feygele Beygele and Hager's March (trad. arr. of Heaven Veretski Pass) 2:16 and Earth 31. Katz's March (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 1:31 Web: 32. Polka Szabasowka (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 1:28 www.veretskipass.com33. Petrikever Polka (trad. arr. Veretski Pass) 1:28

About Joel Rubin

Rubin has recorded many albums, and To top of page written some excellent scholarly works. Albums reviewed on these