Gregori Schechter's Klezmer Festival Band - Be Happy - Zoln ale freylakh zayn
[EUCD2317]

CD Information • CD Title: Klezmer Festival Band - Be Happy - Zoln ale freylakh zayn • Artist(s): Gregori Schechter • CD Code: EUCD2317 • Tracks: 19 • Playing Time: 60:49 min. • Booklet Info in: English, Spanish, French, German

A lively album of wedding dances, traditional street tunes and freilachs (happy tunes) from the early 20th century and before. Played on clarinet, trumpet, violin, guitar, bass, drums. "Familiar, but somehow fresh, poignant and joyful..." - E.S., Dirty Linen "This CD is beautifully produced, authentic and professionally played." - Rambler

Track Listing:

1. Skotchne #1 (Polish Dance) (trad.) - 1:56

2. Dobriy Den (Russian for Good day! ) (trad.) - 3:00

3. Galitzyaner Tantz (A dance from Galicia) (trad.) - 2:41

4. Bublitchki (Russian for Bagel ) (trad.) - 2:33

5. Moyshele my Friend (Mordechai Gebirtig) - 2:07

6. In Odessa (Peretz Sandler) - 3:04

7. Napev (Russian for Melody ; Klezmer Waltz) (trad.) - 3:45

8. Freilach (Yiddish for Happy ; Yiddish dance) (trad.) - 2:45

9. Medley: With the Rabbi in Palestine / Hora Dance (trad.) - 4:50

10. Gasn Nigun # 1 (Street tune) (trad.) - 3:52

11. Fun Der Choopah (At the wedding ceremony) (trad.) - 2:14

12. Romanian Doina, Horovod (Russian round dance) (trad.) - 3:34

13. Der Rebe Elimelech (As on the broken Russian grammophone) (trad.) - 4:55

14. Gasn Nigun # 2 (Street tune; a Hora dance) (trad.) - 2:52

15. Skotchne # 2 (Polish dance) (trad.) - 4:00

16. Hassid (Sher) (trad.) - 3:14

17. Ghetto (Kasriel Broydo) - 2:00

18. Be Happy (Freilachs) (trad.) - 3:47

BONUS TRACK:

19. JONTEF: For ich mir arois (trad.) - 2:43