Best Of Yiddish Klezmer And Sephardic Music, The - Burning Bush (The)

Advantages: Deeply poetic, rich musical excellence. It's Kate Bush.
Disadvantages: Not instant music for parties. It wouldn't work. Don't do it.

...Let me begin with a highly relevant link because if you go to it you get the first track and a video to watch as well: http://www.katebush.com/video/kingofthemountain/ So, I'm in France with a gorgeous girlfriend with Kate warbling, 'Ai ai! Babooshka, Babooshka, yi, yi!' on the jukebox and I'm just having a great 1982. Something of Kate Bush is imprinted and stays with me, and though singles like, 'Cloudbusting,' and albums like 'Red Shoes,' pass me by un-noticed as the years fly by, the mad-eyed girl who sang of 'Wuthering, Wuthering, Wuthering Heights!' never entirely goes away. She seems to though. For twelve years she's gone. On http://www.white-man-killer.com/kate/ the Webmistress, Sylvia, can be seen opining that Kate Bush is unlikely to tour or make an album again. She's back now with a new album called, 'Aerial... Read review

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Advantages: quality through and through
Disadvantages: if you don't like Kate Bush you won't like it!

..."digitally remastered" and has 6 bonus tracks. The album is basically in 3 parts - the first 5 tracks are more commercial pop songs, the next 7 tracks are a collection of songs bracketed under the title "The Ninth Wave", and the final 6 tracks are remixes and bonus songs. I'll take each part of the album in turn. Of the first 5 songs, the most immediate is The Big Sky, a simple-but-catchy song about the wonderment of looking into the sky - "that cloud looks like Ireland!". Kate's vocal range is amazing and the way the music is layered is extremely impressive on every song. Running Up That Hill is the best known song on the album, and has an insistent rhythm and is quite haunting. It's used quite a lot as backing music on TV but I never actually realised it was a Kate Bush track. Cloudbusting is another great track that seems to get better... Read review

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Advantages: Funny, witty, clever; it's klezmer music
Disadvantages: Unnecessary Leonard Cohen cover

...that is played at Jewish weddings when the bride and groom are lifted up on chairs and the guests dance in a circle round them singing "Hava Nagila" - you're pretty much there. GEOFF BERNER AND KLEZMER MUSIC "The Wedding Dance of the Widow Bride" is the second in his planned trilogy of klezmer-inspired collections ("Whisky Rabbi" is the first) and the ten tracks on the album follow the theme of love and marriage - with Berner's distinctive and slightly off-centre slant on things. "Good luck now" is vibrant opener and really demonstrated the links between the Jewish and Roma strands that comprise klezmer music. It also introduces us the the recurring theme of the album and what makes Berner tick - his Jewishness. "I'm internationally recognised As a really lucky guy. Everybody knows that I'm The Lucky Goddam Jew" The next number... Read review

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