Polonski/ Yale Strom / Hot Pstromi - City of the Future - Yiddish Songs from the Former Soviet UnionYale Strom, the multiply gifted American violinist, composer, filmmaker, writer, educator, photographer and playwright is among other things, considered a pioneer among klezmer revivalists with his comprehensive field research in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans regions within the Jewish and Rom communities. "City of the Future" explores the Jewish songs composed by Shmuel Polonski in 1931, a golden time of great vitality Yiddish culture

but they don't let themselves sit unheard like that

He was fascinated by the playing techniques of the musicians he met in Andalusia

beautifully and wildly

and it's success helped a bunch of singers and storytellers to emerge over the next three or four years

Lonesome songs of wanderlust

whose ten-year creative crisis birthed a new

This recording marks the beginning of the collaboration between Alpha and the ensemble Les Surprises

the answer is that you do very little and go on as if as everything is normal

Merula/ Mazzocchi/ Monteverdi/ Sances - In Paradiso

for the perfect complement to your stein of Spaten

rooted in the early '50s style

MONARCH OF THE GLEN)