the KlezmerShack

I got carried away. CDs were falling off the shelf, so I sat down this weekend and stayed sat down until I got several reviewed. We've got some great new Jewish music, some avant garde and jazz, some klezmer (lots of klezmer), some Sephardic and Mizrahi music, more klezmer and Yiddish folk.... That's not the whole gamut, but odds are that something in this weekend's stack will be just what you were looking for:

• Aufwind / Inejnem, 2002, Yiddish folk/theatre/klezmer
• Gilad Atzmon & Orient House Ensemble / Exile, 2003, jazz w/Middle Eastern influences, political
• Koby Israelite / Dance of the Idiots, 2003, cholent--just about everything
• Metropolitan Klezmer / Surprising Finds, 2003, klezmer, yiddish folk, theatre, more
• Den Flygande Bokrullen / Tarrschwein, 2002, headbanger klezmer
• Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band / Sweet Return, 2003, klezmer, yiddish, new Jewish music
• Divahn, 2002, Sephardic, Mizrahi
• Massel-Tov / Vas iz vikhtik..., 2002, klezmer, Yiddish