ReJew-Venation

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共12首歌曲

艺人: Burton Greene
语种: 英语
厂牌: Bvhaast
发行时间: 1998年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Thom Jurek

Revisiting the stranger terrain explored on its second release, Klezmokum returns to the odder textures and more obscure Balkan and Turkish roots as well as the Sephardic music that dominated Jew-azzic Park. With Patricia Beysens as a permanent member playing both flügelhorn and singing, Klezmokum has a virtually limitless textural palette and a color range of timbres that is countless. There is no dearth of the Sephardic Landino here, as Beysens adds two gorgeous vocals to the catalog with &El Rey Por Muncha Mondruga& and &Los Kaminos di Sirkidji.& &El Rey& has its roots in the 16th century, and addresses love and betrayal in the king's courts. Written in 9/8 and still performed that way in Morocco, Burton Greene altered each 9/8 with an 8/8, which creates a lilt in the melody. Given the alteration, it allows the band to improvise on the tune in a modern setting. The second of the two can be read as either 10/8 or 20/8 (depending on how you count; I count 10/8 = 3+3+2+2). But Perry Robinson changes the meter further in his improvisation, moving it to 22/8! The theme of love and its loss, having been handed down from the Turkish Sephardim, is expressed with great passion by Beysens. Of the instrumentals, the depth of research into the origins of these songs is all Greene. On &Atesh Tanz,& his bridged addition was extrapolated from another song of the same era and added as an extension because of the difficult nature of the transcription. Needless to say, what he added was a contemporary embellishment that both exposes the antiquity of the original and speaks to antiquity's relevance in postmodern culture, with two singing clarinet solos from Robinson and Hans Mekel. With ReJew-Venation, Klezmokum digs further into the elements inherent in this ancient music that are ripe for jazz exploration, and loses none of the group's dimension or traditional grandeur for it. That Klezmokum has chosen to end this disc with a profoundly joyous and highly sophisticated work by John Zorn is the final nail in the bridge from the ancient road to the future one.

ReJew-Venation

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