Sweet Home Bukovina

About the Artist
Active since 1984, The Chicago Klezmer Ensemble are one of the oldest klezmer music groups in America. This recording is the product of thirteen years of performance, experimentation and new compositions. While many Jewish American klezmer music groups have subordinated musical taste to ethnic nostalgia, this ensemble looks to the essence of the musical structures underlining klezmer music and takes these as the starting point. For that reason they are both extremely traditional reflecting pre-immigration East European Jewish musical style ans avant-garde, creating original arrangements and successful new compositions.

Product Description
In 1936 the great blues artist, Robert Johnson recorded "Sweet Home Chicago" referring to a city where he had never lived and which he may never even have seen. Similarly, The Chicago Klezmer Ensemble have never been to Bukovina, and although klezmer music once thrived there, it is now a "sweet home" of memory and myth to which this music will always belong and for which it will always express a deep yearning.

Sweet Home Bukovina,The Chicago Klezmer Ensemble

Average customer rating: Time Travel

Sweet Home Bukovina ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005B9DE Release Date: 2001-03-20

Tracks:

1. Donya and Sirba Populara
2. Sweet Home Bukavina
3. Mazltov
4. Rumeynisher Bulgarish
5. Hora Monzingo
6. Yosi Ber
7. Yismekhu V'malkhuskho
8. Trinkt Briderlakh!
9. Shaleshudes
10. A Hora Mit Tsibeles
11. A Yidishe Neshome

Album Description

In 1936 the great blues artist, Robert Johnson recorded "Sweet Home Chicago" referring to a city where he had never lived and which he may never even have seen. Similarly, The Chicago Klezmer Ensemble have never been to Bukovina, and although klezmer music once thrived there, it is now a "sweet home" of memory and myth to which this music will always belong and for which it will always express a deep yearning.

Customer Reviews:

Time Travel.......2005-10-30

The Chicago Klezmer Ensemble will take you where science cannot - to a place in the past, before Klezmer music made its journey across the Atlantic. It will take you back to the ancestoral homes of the early musicians and those who loved the music they created. Close your eyes and listen to this CD. You will be transported and then experience musical artistry played with passion.

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