Ver Tanzt?, by Black Ox Orkestar

Ver Tanzt?

by Black Ox Orkestar

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Conor Absolutely flawlessly beautiful, haunting and moving music. Perfect album by a perfect band.

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1.	Shvartze Flamen, Vayser Fayer 02:34	buy track
2.	Papir Iz Dokh Vays 04:13	buy track
3.	Fishelakh In Vaser 03:29	buy track
4.	Cretan Song 02:28	buy track
5.	Ver Tanzt? 03:17	buy track
6.	Stav Ya Pitu 03:51	buy track
7.	Nign 02:42	buy track
8.	Toyte Goyes In Shineln 03:42	buy track
9.	Kalarash 03:04	buy track
10.	Forn Forstu 02:26	buy track
11.	Skocne 02:21	buy track
12.	Moscowitz Terkisher 03:10	buy track
13.	Di Khasene 05:42	buy track

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Evenly split between instrumentals and vocal tunes, this debut album is a compelling blend of originals and new arrangements for pieces pulled from various Eastern European songbooks. The band aimed to expand the definition of Jewish diasporic music, by learning and reinterpreting songs and rhythms from all over Slavic and Balkan Europe. Lyrics are in Yiddish and speak forcefully to the bloody history and intractable contradictions of Jewish diaspora and ‘return’. With backgrounds in punk-rock, free-jazz, and other liberation musics, the all-acoustic playing on this record benefits from a genuinely spirited delivery and intensely original approaches to arrangements that never feel forced. This is modern folk music from Eastern European sources played strong, unburdened by antiseptic production and/or cheap sentimentality.

Songs range from the propulsive to the sublimely restrained. “Fishelakh in Vaser” explodes with a pumping free-music rhythm section, “Cretan Song” is a staccato Balkan dance, and “Ver Tantz?” is an angry, politically-charged klezmer-punk original. Instrumentals “Shvartze Flamen…” and “Nign”, along with the brilliant original “Toyte Goyes” (lyrics taken from a poem by Yiddish writer Itzik Fefer) are meditative and heartrending. Jessica Moss (violin, bass clarinet), Thierry Amar (contrebasse) and Scott Levine Gilmore (vocals, mandolin, cymbalom, drums) all play or played in Silver Mt. Zion, and Gabe Levine (clarinet, guitar) was chief songwriter in Sackville.

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released April 26, 2004

PERSONNEL
Thierry Amar: contrabass
Scott Levine Gilmore: mandolin, cymbalom, guitar, drums, violin, harmonium, voice
Gabe Levine: clarinet, guitar, bass clarinet
Jessica Moss: violin, bass clarinet

GUESTS
Jesse Levine: piano on TRACK 5; accordion on TRACK 9
Nadia Moss: piano on TRACK 12

Recorded and mixed at the Hotel2Tango in Montreal by Howard Bilerman, winter 2003. Mastered by Harris Newman.

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Black Ox Orkestar Montreal, Québec

Black Ox Orkestar plays modern Jewish diasporic music that draws from Klezmer, Romani, Arabic, Balkan and other Eastern European folkways, through the lens of indie rock, experimental folk and avant-jazz sensibilities. The band combines interpretations of instrumental traditionals with original compositions sung primarily in Yiddish. Formed in 2000 in Montréal, disbanded in 2006, reunited in 2021. ... more

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