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Moment Magazine Top Ten Klezmer CDs: 1998
The Essential Klezmer Library Top Twenty, CDs til 2000
Klezmer.de [German] Die 10 Beste Stucke (Top Ten)
Featured on PRI's Sound + Spirit program, North American broadcast
WRUW World Beat top ten
Metropolitan Klezmer: Yiddish
For Travelers - Sixty minutes,
24 tracks, plus a colorful 8-page insert with full lyrics, translations
and fabulous fun artwork. Metropolitan Klezmer's debut album... Klezmer in every dimension!
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1. Nokh a gleyzl vayn (Another Glass of Wine)
2. C Minor Bulgar
3. Fifth Floor Khosidl
4. Mangiko/Yoshke fort avek (Greek & Yiddish versions)
5. Der feter Max's bulgar (Uncle Max's Bulgar Dance)
6. Libes shmertsn (The Pain of Love)
7. Sheyn vi di levone (Beautiful as the Moon)
8. Yosl, Yosl (Joey, Joey)
9. Farlangen (Longing)
10. Der gasn nigun (The Street Tune)
11. Ken O'Hara Freylekh
12. Russian Sher (Scissors Dance) |
13. Fiselekh (Happy Feet)
14. Der yidisher soldat in di trenches (Jewish Soldier in the Trenches
15. Rozhinkes mit mandlen (Raisins and Almonds)
16. Metropolitan Raisins (jazz version)
17. Oy tate (Oh Father)
18. Zhok a la Dave
19. Steve's Bar Mitzve
20. Ismail's Doyna
21. Bessarabian Hora
22. Kostakowsky Sirba
23. Volokh
24. Der miropoler rebe's nigun (Miropoler Rebbe Chant) Dybbuk March |
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Listen to 
now at cdbaby.com/metklez or at Ari
Davidow's Klezshack site
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"just plain great, versatile ensemble playing... lesser-known and overlooked tunes from Yiddish-film soundtracks and immigrant-era klezmer bands... exbuerant... great spirit and wit."
- Seth Rogovoy, THE ESSENTIAL KLEZMER
"subtle but ear-catching arrangements... reawaken themes that over-exposure by others elsewhere had jaded. Pleasantly inventive"
- folkRoots [U.K.] Magazine / thumbs-up rating
"a briefcase full of bulgars... this upbeat, on-the-go collection by the New York-based ensemble is as peppy as a round trip on a carousel with occasional slower songs that generously allow the listener space to catch one's breath... bouncy brass and reeds, plus a haunting flugelhorn."
- Bob Tarte, The Beat magazine
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