Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird is a klezmer band around a native of Detroit Americans Daniel Kahn. The group was founded in Berlin in 2005 and has since released four albums at the prestigious Berlin label Oriente published music. The band's name comes from the title of the novel The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński of 1965.

The Music of Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird, by Kahn called " alienation Klezmer " is a blend of klezmer, punk, folk and singer-songwriter.

The lyrics are part of Kahn, but many are adaptations of poems and songs by Jewish authors (eg Mordechai Gebirtig ), often with a socio-political issue. Also sang Kahn songs by Franz Josef Degenhardt ( " The Old Songs" ), Heinrich Heine ( "The old evil songs " ), Bertolt Brecht ( " Judenhure Marie Sanders " and " For what gives man ?") And Kurt Tucholsky ( " roses on the way scattered ") and the Yiddish version of the classic " Lili Marleen ". He sings in English, German and Yiddish, multiple languages ​​mixed partially in a song. Sometimes he is accompanied by the Russian singing Vanya Zhuk.

Albums

• The Broken Tongue (2006, Hand Of God Records, 2009 Oriente Musik )
• Partisans & Parasites (2009, Oriente Musik )
• Bad Old Songs ( 2012 Oriente Musik )

Awards

The album Lost Causes won the 2011 Prize of the German Record Critics. Bad Old Songs was first on the list of Critics in the first quarter of 2013.