08/02/2012
KALYMA – YIDDISH RUSSIAN MUSIC
Noëmi Waysfeld and her band Blik blow a new wind on traditional Yiddish songs and heartbreaking melodies of Siberian prisoners. With guest stars Sonia Wieder Atherton and David Krakauer …
08/02/2012
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird – Lost Causes
Since 2005, Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird has become an international cultural phenomenon which challenges all categorization. Yiddish punk cabaret ? East-European folk-rock ? Crazy klezmer ? …
29/10/2011
Survivre et mourir en musique dans les camps nazis
From the first punitive camps of the IIIrd Reich to the death factories of Treblinka and Birkenau, passing by the prisoners of war camps, the author tells about the activities in the concentration camp universe …
21/10/2011
Musiques liturgiques des Juifs de Tlemcen
This 6-CD set is devoted to the specific liturgy of the thousand-year-old Jewish community of Tlemcen …
04/09/2011
Le chant liturgique juif éthiopien
This book by Olivier Tourny, ethnomusicologist in the CNRS and former director of the French Research Center in Jerusalem, describes in a pedagogical way the fascinating musical tradition of Ethiopian Jews …
04/09/2011
Axerico en Selanik
The French duet Mazal, with Emmanuelle Rouvray (vocals, percussions) and Thomas Baudriller (programming, sampler, bass, doublebass, mandoline), perform 10 traditional Sefardi songs in a musical electro-dance environment …
12/07/2011
Classic Yiddish Klezmer – 1905-1916
The 26 tunes of this compilation restore a part of the klezmer music repertoire edited in the USA in the beginning of the 20th century …
07/06/2011
Music in the Jewish community of Palestine 1880 – 1948 – A Social History
The thrilling story of a small community of immigrants and refugees who succeeded in establishing a musical life internationally renowned with the background of two world wars. A balance between a European heritage and an Eastern inspiration …
