Mystic and moshing, spiritual and slamming, these downtown New Yorkers celebrate klezmer's ancient Jewish roots with ecstasy, attitude, and serious chops. They tilt at tradition on this 1997 release with a party-band attack, utilizing jazz, ska and Middle Eastern rhythms. Includes An Undoing World, co-written by fiddler Alicia Stivals; Mizmor shir lehanef (Reefer Song) -- a psalm of hemp!; and several excerpts from the score of A Dybbuk: Between Two Worlds.

Klezmatics