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Philj200 Approved 
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Klezmer music to my understanding is a hybrid form of pop/folk/jazz/dance music not all that different culturally from the place bluegrass music holds in Americana. It has it's root in eastern Erupoen Jewish culture. WW II ended that. But it seems to be undergoing a small rebirth. I’ve dabbled in it on and off but lately got interested again. There is even a good bluegrass/klezmer band near me, so I guess the music relationship has occurred to others. Anyway, I tried my hand with a piece. Give a listen and tell me what you think. It’s on a 5-string in open-G but while the dominating chord is an E7, I suspect the piece is in Ami. It’s the first song at http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/1143/ And if anyone can remind me how to link songs without going nuts, I’d appreciate it.
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banjo brad Super Moderator 
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http://ezfolk.com/audio/play.php?mode=song_hifi&band_id=1143&song_id=16148 Phil - go to your music page. Hilight the "play" button and control click (right click) on the arrow. Copy the "copy link location" or similar instruction on PC to your clipboard. "Paste" the link into your post. Doesn't most Klezmer play a bit faster? I remember seeing a Youtube of Itzak (sp?) Perlman playing with a Klezmer band. Nice job on your take.
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Philj200 Approved
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http://ezfolk.com/audio/play.php?mode=song_hifi&band_id=1143&song_id=16148 Thanks again Brad. If I were Itzak Perlman I could play it faster too. Some pieces are fast. Some are slow. Some are in the middle. I like the way they mix modes. I wish I could read music better or understand the words. Most are not in English. Joan Baez did a traditional Klezmer piece and one of the few that's in English called Dona Dona way back a way.
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banjo brad Super Moderator
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I still have her LP with Dona Dona Dona on it! One of these days I'm going to find time to rip my LPs to CD, I promise! I guess you could call Pete's rendition of Djankoye a Klezmer tune. I first heard it done by the Limelighters, then found Pete's version. Of course you're right about the different tempos, and I'm not all that familiar with Klezmer, so maybe you're right on time.
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Philj200 Approved
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I have no idea how fast the piece is supposed to be played. I could have sped up a little. But it seemed right to me. I alsowas able to retain control. I'm not aware of Djankoye. But from the spelling it is Chech, not Yiddish. But then again, I speak neither. I think Dona, Dona is from her first album way back when with only Fred Hellerman backing her up. Limelighters... that's a name from the past. Now I wish I could read music better. I Amazoned three books of Klezmer music. Maybe I can figure out a few more. Perhaps I played it slow because I read it slow?
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banjo brad Super Moderator
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Phil - I think you'd recognize the song: it sounds more like: Hey, John, Hey, John koi ya, John, John, John. The background I have on it (from Pete's song book "The Bells of Rhymney and Other Songs and Stories", (Oak, 1964) says: "The little Jewish collective farm in the Crimea, about which this song was written, lay in the path of the Nazi army in 1941. . . .Eleven of the old farms were combined into one large farm, called "Rosseeya", . . . The nearby town of Djankoye has also grown to a small city of 50,000. . . . In the spring of 1964 I visited Rosseeya and spoke to one of the older members of the farm. He remembered this song well, and said it first heard it sung by some young people around 1926. "Oh, it must be like a folk song. Different people added to it. There was a crowd of young people who liked to make up songs then." The version I have is in Em, and lays out pretty simply in straight 4/4 time.
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Philj200 Approved
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I may have heard the tune... but I'm drawing a blank right now. Senior moment? My family (maternal grandmother) came from a similar farming community up north in what's now Belarus. Their farm was in a small town was near the Polish border. When the Germans crossed into the USSR, the Red Army made a stand at the crossroads in their village. The village was totally destroyed. I've seen film of the place completely engulfed in-flames taken by some German war correspondent. It was rebuild after the war, but the entire population went up in smoke (if you get my drift). The streets of the new village followed different paths. New residents had no connection with the past. Do you play Djankoye? I'd love to hear it. Last edited on Tue Aug 26th, 2008 10:19 pm by Philj200 ____________________ My MP3 Section: http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/1143/ My Myspace area: http://myspace.com/philj200 |
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banjo brad Super Moderator
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I haven't - it's more of a song than a tune, but after my last post I've gained some interest in doing it. No promises, but we'll see.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkmFgQ9fM94&feature=related This viedeo is called Itzak Perlman Plays Klezmer. It is very impressive. He's just sitting in with a young talented group called the Klezmatics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkmFgQ9fM94&feature=related This is group that mixes bluegrass and klezmer. Enjoy. Added a few minutes later: I wandered around Youtube watching various videos and saw something. The Klezmer musicians play polyphoniusly. Several of them will play at the same time scatting marmonies and counter-melodies on the fly. Rather than trade leads while everyone else plays backup. Reminds me of Dixieland. That's interesting becasue both Dixieland and Klezmer peaked at about the same time, yet probably had little or no knowledge of each other. Well, that's for a scholar to chime in. Last edited on Wed Aug 27th, 2008 01:12 pm by Philj200 ____________________ My MP3 Section: http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/1143/ My Myspace area: http://myspace.com/philj200 |
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