Advantages: Funny, witty, clever; it's klezmer music Disadvantages: Unnecessary Leonard Cohen cover
...music of the sort played wedding parties and this became common as Jewish people left Europe for America and were influenced partly by the jazz movement.
If you still aren't sure what klezmer is, think about the sort of music 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 ... ...are only influenced by Jewish wedding music, you could never suggest that these sometimes dark and subversive songs could be played at a real wedding! However, if klezmer music is to survive and find news fans who will make sure it doesn't disappear, the subject matter has to be relevant and this is something Geoff Berner has done brilliantly.
My CD came as a digipack with a pull-out colour booklet containing the lyrics and the packaging has some ...
fizzytom 21.10.2007 (22.10.2007)
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