Not your grandmother's klezmer

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From a review in today’s Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:

David Krakauer Bubbemeises: Lies my Gramma Told Me

This is not your grandmother’s klezmer, unless Grandma likes remixed Hasidic chants, a klezmer tribute to James Brown and a raving battle for a reinvented Jewish identity.

Famed clarinet player and former Klezmatics member David Krakauer has been improvising freestyle klezmer for almost two decades.

On his latest disc, Krakauer pushes the boundaries by teaming with Jewish hip-hop architect DJ Socalled.

This union is innovative and genre bending. Check out “B Flat a la Socalled” and “Turntable Pounding.”

---Phillip Zonkel, Los Angeles Daily News

I’m thinking I want to hear this.