Golem (klezmer band)

Golem! (alternative spelling also: Golem ) is founded in 2001 and based in New York Klezmer Band. The group combines traditional Eastern European music styles with punk, rock and ska elements and interpreted their pieces in different languages ​​like English, Yiddish, Russian and Ladino.

History

Were founded Golem! 2001 by the bandleader Annette Ezekiel Kogan. Your style described the group as " Eastern European folk - punk ". Up to and including 2009 publish Golem! five CDs: the debut EP Golem (2001), Libeshmertzn ( Love Hurts ) (2002 ), Homesick Songs ( 2004), Fresh Off Boat ( 2006) and Citizen Boris ( 2009). With numerous live performances, the group has profiled primarily as a mood chapel - including in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, France, Poland and Sweden. As part of a European tour in 2010, the group has performed in Germany. Was accompanied by the band Berlin DJ Yuriy Gurzhy, a collector of new Jewish Grooves, who works closely with the author and Dj Wladimir Kaminer.

Members of the band were in early 2011: the band founder Annette Ezekiel Kogan (vocals, accordion), Aaron Diskin (vocals, tambourine ), Alicia Jo rabbi exist (violin), Curtis Hasselbring (trombone), bassist Taylor Bergren - Chrisman, and the drummer Tim Monaghan. The recent publications of the group appeared at JDub Records, a New York based non-profit event production company that specializes in the publication of current Jewish music.

The Klezmer band is not to be confused with the Berlin Death Metal group Golem, or originating from Vienna Austrian pop band Golem.

Style and reviews

Although Golem! self-reported well received mainly at younger audiences and their focus is on live and party appearances, also reported greater U.S. media about the band - including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice and the Forward. The U.S. edition of Rolling Stone wrote to Fresh Off Boat: " The third album of this new band presents Gypsy -Folk Punk, complete with klezmer deposits and Jokes. " The Jewish Week described the group with the words: " This is not the Klezmer Band of thy father - unless your father was Sid Vicious. "

At a Berlin gigs the band's website of the Jewish Community of Berlin also picked up the party factor of appearances out: " With names and rather their music, a sort of Yiddish Klezmer -punk, mixes the band in New York long ago the party scene. Passionate and relaxed even join in Gypsy music, Balkan sounds and folk sounds - a breath of fresh air in the world music scene, musical virtuosity and yet with a lot of humor and playfulness. They say the musicians after that they almost know how to rock any party, because their music does not only require the attention of the audience, but still its interaction with the band. "

Discography

• Golem ( Marcata Recording, 2001)
• Libeshmertzn ( Love Hurts ) (2002 )
• Homesick Songs ( 2004)
• Fresh Off Boat ( JDub Records, 2006)
• Citizen Boris ( JDub Records, 2009)