Frank London - A Night in the Old Marketplace [2007]
APE & MP3 + CUE + LOG | TT 57:00 | Front cover
APE = 315 mb | MP3 (lame –preset standard) = 77 mb
Jazz / Avant-Garde / Jewish theatre music / Kurt Weill-meets-Tom Waits
"There's an angel who lies at the bottom of the well. Can you still hear her sighs from the bottom of the well? She fled from a man who she never could love. Now her bed's in the sand at the bottom of the well." How can any red-blooded poetry lover resist such bleak lyrics? If this is not enough, these words are splashed against a decadent-rich Klezmer-Cabaret backdrop that sounds like Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht deep in the bottle after an opium binge. And if that is not enough, these very words, with Hebraic dread clinging, are sung by the wee Irish lass, Susan McKeown. is a 1907 Yiddish play by I.L. Peretz (1852-1915), a well known Yiddish language author and playwright, born in Warsaw, Poland. New York City trumpeter and Klezmer specialist (and Klezmatics member) Frank London, scores the play with the book provided by Glen Berger for Alexandra Aron's theatrical adaptation. The result is Frank London's which can best be described as pre-war Berlin condensed, placed in a time machine and blasted into the 21st Century. London takes the cabaret of Kurt Weill, adds an electric guitar to the basic Klezmer format (sans the clarinet but with a banjo) and produces show music tailor-made for this very minute. London employs an army of talent for his endeavor (a good many from his own Klezmatics), artists as different as the Celtic Susan McKeown and Lorin Sklamberg. Glen Berger's book is wicked funny, full of religious allusion and disillusion, both Judaic and Christian. Gleefully, London and Berger entertain every religious taboo with relish in this dark and darkly delicious collection. The music wanders from Klezmer to Latin...jazz to popular...earth to outer space, all the while committing every heresy possible. Here's to that old time religion. "Make your way, make your way Purgatory is open today No need to solicit God's grace To come to the old marketplace" Man, it doesn't get any better than this.
(allaboutjazz.com review)
Tracks:
1. Bottom of the Well - Frank London, Susan McKeown
2. What Is Man's Worth? - Martha Cluver, Karen Goldfeder, Matt Hensrud, Steve Hrycelak, Silvie Jensen, Frank London
3. Nosn's Vision - Frank London, Craig Wedren
4. Madness - Steve Hrycelak, Frank London, Manu Narayan
5. Tale of the Drowned Klezmorim - Joanne Borts, Frank London
6. Word - Frank London, Manu Narayan
7. One Prayer/One Lullaby - Frank London, Manu Narayan, Lorin Sklamberg
8. Forever Yours - Frank London, Manu Narayan
9. Meet Me in the Old Marketplace - LaTanya Hall, Frank London
10. Ten Faces of G-D - Martha Cluver, Karen Goldfeder, Matt Hensrud, Steve Hrycelak, Silvie Jensen, Frank London
11. Saga of the Singers of Brod - Martha Cluver, Karen Goldfeder, Matt Hensrud, Steve Hrycelak, Silvie Jensen, Frank London
12. Call It Disappointing - Frank London, Manu Narayan
13. I'll Make Such Wonders - Martha Cluver, Karen Goldfeder, Matt Hensrud, Steve Hrycelak, Silvie Jensen, Frank London
14. Canon of the Dead - Martha Cluver, Karen Goldfeder, Matt Hensrud, Steve Hrycelak, Silvie Jensen, Frank London
15. It Doesn't Matter - Frank London, Lorin Sklamberg, Jane Kelly Williams
16. Is There Room on Earth? - Martha Cluver, Karen Goldfeder, Matt Hensrud, Steve Hrycelak, Silvie Jensen, Frank London
17. Desire It - Frank London, Manu Narayan
18. God's Reply to Job - Martha Cluver, Karen Goldfeder, Steve Hrycelak, Silvie Jensen, Frank London
19. Perhaps I Went Too Far - Frank London, Manu Narayan
20. All Is Vanity - Frank London
21. Tavern in Pinsk - Frank London, They Might Be Giants
Personnel:
Ron Caswell: tuba, bass
Brandon Seabrook: guitar, banjo, mandolin
Art Bailey: keyboards, accordion
Aaron Alexander: drums
Susan McKeown: vocals (1, 20)
Lorin Sklamberg: vocals (7, 15, 20)
Craig Wedren: vocals (3, 20)
Karen Goldfeder: vocals (2, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20)
Steve Hrycelak : vocals (2, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20)
Manu Narayan vocals (4, 6, 7, 8, 17, 19, 20)
Silvie Jensen: vocals (2, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20)
Jane Kelly Williams: vocals (15, 20)
Martha Cluver: vocals (2, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20)
Matt Hensrud: vocals (2, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20)
Joanne Borts: vocals (5, 20)
Latanya Hall: vocals (9, 20)
They Might Be Giants: vocals (21)
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(C) 2001 Monty <monty@xiph.org> and Xiphophorus
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