DAVID KRAKAUER

DAVID KRAKAUER
& SOCALLED WITH KLEZMER MADNESS!
BUBBEMEISES
LIES MY GRAMMA TOLD ME (2006)
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With titles like 'Lies ...' ( eg masturbation will send you blind), this was never going to be a traditional album of Jewish klezmer dance music. Clarinet virtuoso Krakauer is dragging klezmer into the modern world in collaboration with hip hopmeister Socalled in a similar fashion to the way in which the Gotan Project revamped tango. But unlike Gotan, this is a bit too challenging, neurotic and musically adventurous to cut it as lounge wallpaper music. Krakauer makes clarinet hip, throwing in avant-jazz riffs and wild solos to beats saltier than a salt beef bagel.

1. Bubbemeises
2. Ms N.C
3. Moskovitz and Loops of It
4. B Flat à la Socalled
5. Turntable Pounding
6. Long? Short, Long (les colocs)
7. Bus Number 9999
8. The Electric Sher
9. Rumania, Rumania
10. Rue Mania