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"BESTER & DAFO – CHAMBER SOUND" - is the name of a new project bringing together the two world-renowned quartets who use some unparalleled sounds in their work.
In this particular example, we are confronted with an extraordinary union of the two seemingly independent soundworlds in which improvised music and classical music never cease to inspire and complete each other – thus creating a mixture in the spirit of the several-centuries-old tradition of the East European music that is expressive and full of playing passion.
In this particular example, we are confronted with an extraordinary union of the two seemingly independent soundworlds in which improvised music and classical music never cease to inspire and complete each other – thus creating a mixture in the spirit of the several-centuries-old tradition of the East European music that is expressive and full of playing passion.
New CD - "Remembrance"
Tzadik New York 2007, TZ 8116
New review by Thom Jurek (allmusic.com)
"Balan: Book of Angels, Vol. 5"
"Balan: Book of Angels, Vol. 5"
The first striking thing about the Cracow Klezmer Band's reading of John Zorn's tunes from his Book of Angels, on Balan, is the sound -- crystalline, full of separation and space. The next is Jaroslaw Bester's bayan -- hunted, witchy, signaling from some far-off place to Oleg Dyyak's hand drums, Wojciech Front's double bass, and then the small army of strings provided by the band's own violinist, Jaroslaw Tyrala, and the DAFO String Quartet.
Note
From January 2007 on, The Cracow Klezmer Band will stop functioning and a new band named
BESTER QUARTET
will be active instead.
BESTER QUARTET
will be active instead.
Balan: Book of Angels Vol.5
Tzadik New York 2006, TZ 7358
Eyal Hareuveni (AllAboutJazz.com)
"Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass"
"Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass"
... The release of the Polish Cracow Klezmer Band's fourth disc on Tzadik, are they interpreted in the Old World Eastern European klezmer form. Many Masada interpretations have referenced, abstracted, or suggested new readings of this genre which is so identified with Jewish music.
