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KDHX, “Music from the Hills, 18 June 2017 (Songs My Father Almost Taught Me)

I remember my father bringing home Joel Grey’s “Songs My Father Taught Me.”  It and Jan Peerce’s “Kol Nidre” were my main (and, frankly, negligible) exposures to Jewish music.  Dad would listen to Peerce as he ended his Yom Kippur fast; I don’t remember him/us returning to Grey.  We didn’t sing songs at our very ecumenical seders.

Still, it seems fitting to have done a show of Jewish music on Father’s Day as the first of a three-week fill-in on “Music from the Hills.”  And it is equally fitting that I approach it as part of the folk music tradition which led to my real exposure to Klezmer music.

I was committed to not succumbing to the siren songs of Sephardic music which have dominated the last several Jewish music shows I’ve done in this time slot.  Sephardic music is wonderfully “Oriental”--Middle Eastern, Ottoman, Balkan--in line with my general predilection that the farther south and eastern one goes in Eastern European music the better.

But here I wanted to play with the efforts of Europeans to recreate the culture the Nazis destroyed along with the American revival that I gladly got caught up with (Klezmatics, Brave Old World in the first generation; clever smart-asses (my people) like Isle of Klezbos and Yid Vicious) with some archival recordings of Jews in America making music from the 1910s to 1950s.

I mostly succeeded though I did wrap up the show with Terkisher and Araber dances, but both owe some lineage to Naftule Brandwein, the King of Jewish Music in New York in the 1910s and 1920s.  That is, they are meant to evoke the Middle East, rather than are from there.I am drawn to the musical jokes--Sandy Weltman playing with the local bluegrass band the Lonesome Pines and playing banjo and harmonica on a Brandwein tune; TV music from “Gomer Pyle, USMC” for guest appearances by Molly Picon; the band names-- and the juxtapositions.  The Klezmatics and Transkapela using trumpet in complementary ways.

So it was fun and a good start to this run.

Here’s the playlist:

04:01PM-04:07PM (6:05) Itzhak Perlman with Brave Old World “Reb Itzhik's Nign” from In the Fiddler's House on RCA Victor

04:08PM-04:11PM (2:56) Khevrisa “C minor: Freylakhs” from European Klezmer Music (2000) on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (http://www.folkways.si.edu) 

04:11PM-04:14PM (2:43) Belf's Rumysnki Orkester “Mayofus (How Beautiful)” from Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World on Yazoo

04:14PM-04:19PM (4:43) Emil Bruh & his Ensemble “Schaju Ugliebt Meine Achzig Juren” from Jewish Melodies (1956) on Dana

04:20PM-04:27PM (6:50) Budowitz “Kiev: Josefs Tish Nign>Margulis Sher>Dawids Sher” from Budowitz: Live on Golden Horn Records (http://www.goldenhorn.com) 

04:28PM-04:31PM (3:00) Kapela Brodow “Mazur Zydowski” from Muzikaim (2014) on Dwojka

04:31PM-04:33PM (2:24) Transkapela “Hora De La Saveni” from Over The Village (2007) on Ferment

04:33PM-04:38PM (5:05) Veretski Pass “The Street: Bottler's Gallop>Polka Szarpana” from Poyln, A Gilgul (feat. Joel Rubin) on Golden Horn Records (http://www.goldenhorn.com) 

04:41PM-04:44PM (2:53) Nikitov “Reyzele” from Amulet on Chamsa Records

04:44PM-04:47PM (3:34) Machaya Klezmer Band “Yidl Mit'n Fidl” from What a Machay! on self04:47PM-

04:52PM (5:15) Yid Vicious “Never Mind the Cossacks (Sher Medley)” from Klez, Kez, Goy Mit Fez (1998) on Uvulittle Records

04:52PM-04:56PM (4:05) Isle of Klezbos “When Gomer Met Molly (Live)” from Live From Brooklyn (2014) on Rhythm Media Records

04:56PM-04:59PM (2:16) Metropolitan Klezmer/Isle of Klezbos “Humphrey Bulgar” from Mosaic Persuasion (2000) on Rhythm Media Records

05:01PM-05:06PM (4:53) Klezmatics “NY Psycho Freylekhs” from Rhythm + Jews on Piranha

05:06PM-05:13PM (6:40) Transkapela “The Bride's Waltz” from Over The Village (2007) on Ferment

05:13PM-05:18PM (5:06) Sandy Weltman “Kishiniever Bulgar” from The Klezmer Nuthouse (2002) on Wildstone AudioLocal 

05:20PM-05:25PM (5:00) Khevrisa “Old Moldavian Klezmer Suite In E: Terkisher Gebet” from European Klezmer Music(2000) on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (http://www.folkways.si.edu) 

05:25PM-05:31PM (5:36) Yid Vicious “Terk in Amerike” from Forverts! on Uvulittle Records

05:31PM-05:35PM (3:45) Kapela Brodow “Turecki” from Muzikaim (2014) on Dwojka

05:35PM-05:40PM (5:33) Sandy Weltman “Terkishe yale v'yove tantz” from Klezmer Nuthouse on Wildstone Audio

05:42PM-05:47PM (4:51) Metropolitan Klezmer/Isle of Klezbos “Araber Tants” from Mosaic Persuasion (2000) on Rhythm Media Records

05:47PM-05:50PM (2:48) The Original Dixieland Jazz Band “Palesteena” from Klezmer! Jewish Music from Old World to Our World on Yazoo

05:50PM-05:55PM (4:45) Klezmatics “Araber Tants” from Rhythm + Jews on Piranha

05:55PM-05:58PM (3:44) Michael Alpert & Julian Kytasty “Night Songs” from Night Songs from a Neighboring Village(2014) on Oriente Musik

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Episode 080

Top 10 Feb sales, Superman 18, Savage Things 1, America 1, Totally Awesome Hulk 1.MU, Clone Conspiracy Omega, Spider-Man Homecoming Prelude, Royal City 1, Extremity 1, Rat Queens, Nailbiter 30, Animal Noir 1, Once & Future Queen 1, Brave Chef Brianna 1, Riverdale, Logan movie review, Deadpool 2 teaser, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 trailer, Alien Covenant trailer, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ducktales, Jeff Lemire and Old Man Logan, Vision Director's Cut, Make Mine Marvel, Legacy Numbering, Edge of Venomverse, DC/Looney Tunes creative teams.

Details: Superman 18 by Pete Tomasi, Pat Gleason, Mick Gray; Savage Things 1 by Justin Jordan, Ibrahim Moustafa, Jordan Boyd; America 1 by Gabby Rivera, Joe Quinones, Joe Rivera, Paolo Rivera; Totally Awesome Hulk 1.MU by Bryan Hill, Ty Templeton, Mat Lopes; Clone Conspiracy Omega by Dan Slott, Christos Gage, Cory Smith, Justin Ponsor, Peter David, Mark Bagley, John Dell, Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger; Royal City 1 by Jeff Lemire; Extremity 1 by Daniel Warren Johnson, Michael Spicer; Rat Queens (2017) 1 by Kurtis Wiebe, Owen Gieni; Nailbiter 30 by Joshua Williamson, Mike Henderson, Adam Guzowski; Animal Noir 1 by Izar Lunacek, Nejc Juren; Once & Future Queen 1 by Adam Knave, DJ Kirkbride, Nick Brokenshire; Brave Chef Brianna 1 by Sam Sykes, Selina Espiritu, Sarah Stern

10 Feb 2017 Comics Countdown:

10. Batman 18 by Tom King, David Finch, Danny Miki, Jordie Bellaire

9. Brave Chef Brianna 1 by Sam Sykes, Selina Espiritu, Sarah Stern

8. Star Wars 29 by Jason Aaron, Salvador Larroca, Edgar Delgado

7. Nightwing 16 by Tim Seeley, Javier Fernandez

6. Extremity 1 by Daniel Warren Johnson, Michael Spicer

5. Giant Days 24 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Liz Fleming, Whitney Cogar

4. Moon Knight 12 by Jeff Lemire, Greg Smallwood, Jordie Bellaire

3. Midnighter and Apollo 6 by Steve Orlando, Fernando Blanco, Romulo Fajardo, John Rauch

2. Nailbiter 30 by Joshua Williamson, Mike Henderson, Adam Guzowski

1. Royal City 1 by Jeff Lemire

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