#2375: Thrash Klezmer Mish-Mosh

New Sounds | May 24, 2010
Prepare for some incredibly "relentless fun" on this New Sounds program. Drummer Aaron Alexander and a klez-punk ensemble (who include downtown jazz/jewish music all-stars and great young players in the klezmer scene; trumpeter Frank London, reed player Greg Wall, and guitarist Brad Shepik, among others) perform live and make mayhem in the studio. On Alexander’s latest CD, “Midrash Mish Mosh,” dueling drummers pound infectious klezmer-rooted music through round holes, embracing jazz, thrash-punk, Balkan and African rhythms. The boot will conquer the sandal.

PROGRAM #2375, with Aaron Alexander’s Midrash Mish Mosh (First aired on Feb. 8, 2005)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Aaron Alexander

Midrash Mish Mosh

Debkavanah [5:00]

Tzadik #7194 www.tzadik.com*

Aaron Alexander’s Midrash Mish Mosh

Live

Kleyzmish Moshpit [5:00]
Khosidl for the Mixed Marriage [5:00]
Peep Nokh A Mol [6:30]

All available on the CD, see above

Frank London + Greg Wall: Hasidic New Wave

Jews And the Abstract Truth

Tzur Mishelo [4:30]

Knitting Factory #192 ** Available for purchase at Amazon.com*

Septeto Rodriguez

Baila! Gitano Baila!

Hadida [7:00]

Tzadik #7189 www.tzadik.com*

The Klezmatics

Brother Moses Smote The Water

Shnirele, Perele (excerpt) [4:30]

Piranha #1896 www.piranha.de

*, ** Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page

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