New Klezmer Trio - Masks And Faces 1990

New Klezmer Trio - Masks And Faces 1990
Label: Tzadik
Audio CD: (November 19, 1996)

Jazz

This first release from the New Klezmer Trio is rocking, energetic, and young. Not quite as developed as the later Melt Zonk Rewire, it is nevertheless an invigorating and fun listen. After all, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, bassist Dan Seamans, and drummer Kenny Wolleson are terrific musicians, and Masks and Faces is a restructuring and resurrection of traditional Jewish music melted into rock, with a good amount of improvisation. But don't let the improv element deter you -- this raucous, bursting, and somewhat disjointed music sustains a groove that's not so hard to hang on to. Almost an hour in length, New Klezmer Trio's first release ebbs and flows, relentlessly packed with high quality tunes.
By Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide.
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01. Cardboard Factory 5:09
02. Hot And Cold 3:45
03. Rebbe's Meal 7:38
04. Up 4:22
05. Washing Machine Song 3:01
06. Galician 5:23
07. Masks And Faces 6:37
08. Haphazard 4:05
09. Bitonal Song 3:09
10. The Gate 10:33
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