Klezmer Klub: Yiddish songs from London's East End

London based Yiddish song revivalists Klezmer Klub perfectly encapsulate the lost life and spirit of a time and place long since passed. Their second album "Whitechapel Mayn Vaytshepel" cuts a cross section through the musical back alleys and main streets of a Whitechapel in London's Jewish East End, rich with the aroma of freshly cooked bagels and fetid with the stench of rancid, rotting fish. A world of bustling cobbled streets, heaving with optimistic, yet poor and lowly Eastern European immigrants. Hopes and aspirations dashed by the harsh realities of life in the sly and often sordid big city. Tales of a vanished streetscape abound on this collection of songs, sung by Yiddish language revivalist Vivi Lachs, while backed by an energetic ensemble of technically proficient Klezmatists.

It turns out that Vivi's grandfather who worked for the London shechita board, koshering cows and chickens, lived over the road to Simon and Rebecca Dunn, at number 13 Dunk Street, though not necessarily at the same time.


http://www.myspace.com/klezmerklub

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