New Music From Frank London's Klezmer Brass AllStars on Calabash Music

Carnival Conspiracy

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:11:13 -0600

Frank London brings together over 40 musicians from 8 countries on 4 continents for the ultimate Jewish conspiracy. This original Piranha release is a musical travelogue, from frenzied Hasidic Pop to sensual Brazilian-Mexican-Yiddish songs of love and angst. Shake your tuchiss, blow your mind.

Di Shikere Kapelye

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:11:13 -0600

Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars, featuring members of the world's leading klezmer bands (the Klezmatics, Brave Old World, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Hasidic New Wave, Naftule's Dream, Paradox Trio, KlezMs., Shirim, S. F. Klezmer Experience, Les Miserables Brass Band, and the groups of Andy Statman and David Krakauer) pay tribute to the legendary Shikere Kapelye (Inebriated Orchestra), a 19th-century traditional Jewish Oriental village brass band that inexorably influenced the course of klezmer music.

Brotherhood of Brass

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:11:13 -0600

The ultimate of what brass bands can give to sound and soul: Thousands of years after the fall of the tower of Babel Jews, Moors and Gypsies finally reunite. Masters of brass from New York, Cairo and the Balkans meet to celebrate the rediscovered traits of their common past in mystic knowledge - and lung power.