Fresh Off Boat
Golem
Released:
Aug 2006
Label:
Jdub Records
On the Roma music family tree, Klezmer is a major branch, albeit one that is also attached to other trees. And not all of them have Gypsy roots. OK, the metaphor's getting away from us, but you get the point: the reeds, the fiddles, the mournful melodies and impassioned voices, the frantic beats and head-spinning time signatures. The two have some things in common. The line between Gypsy and Klezmer is particularly fine in the ethnic punk world, and Golem! are a perfect example. Everything about their 2006 release, Fresh Off Boat, screams Klezmer, or at least Klezmer rock, and Klezmer rock screams Gypsy punk. Bandleader and vocalist Annette Kogan virtuosically growls and belts like some kind of mohawked Yentl while the rest of the band shows off just how much rock cred clarinets and fiddles have. Heavy shtetl indeed.
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2006 JDub Records