6.17.2008

Hasidic New Wave - Psycho-Semitic


When five Downtown New York improvisers with deep roots in the jazz tradition embrace the Hasidic musical legacy and the scintillating rhythms of the holy land, a new voice emerges. Blending together an intense mixture of ethnic and cosmopolitan sounds, Hasidic New Wave fuses spiritual songs from Hasidic dynasties to funk and jazz, Arabic dances with avant-garde rock, and juxtaposes horas and freylekhs with sheer improvisation. Hasidic New Wave's alternatingly ecstatic and meditative performances, imbued (as is consistent with Hasidic tradition) with joy and passion, has led critics to liken the band to Sun Ra meets Jimi Hendrix at a Jewish wedding and exclaim HNW marries Hasidic music to avant-jazz, spinning traditional Jewish celebratory songs into extended Jazz improvisations that incorporate ferocious horn blowing and raucous electric guitar solos.
www.hasidicnewwave.com
enjoy!

6 comments:

mao tse tung said...

ela re! poly kalo!

Anonymous said...

2nd and 3rd albums of HNW ,i posted them to blogs: club amigos del .rar y ALF (arg) and also to our (greek) http://01fragments.blogspot.com
we also passed a copy to jim mutantsounds.
At our blog you can find more knitting factory posts and in the future there wii be more. if you like that kind of music visit us and/or contact us.
our blog (ending its testing period)is changing name but URL remains the same. thanks-paramo

Anonymous said...

2nd and 3rd albums of HNW ,i posted them to blogs: club amigos del .rar y ALF (arg) and also to our (greek) http://01fragments.blogspot.com
we also passed a copy to jim mutantsounds.
At our blog you can find more knitting factory posts and in the future there wii be more. if you like that kind of music visit us and/or contact us.
our blog (ending its testing period)is changing name but URL remains the same. thanks-paramo

monospace said...

to eixa petyxei kai egw to albumaki trygyrw kai to thimamai mono kai mono apo to ekswfyllo tou :)
nomizw oti irthe h wra na to katevasw kai na to akousw. :)
thanx!

ModusMagus said...

thank you very much! :) very interesting release! i'm from israel)

mao tse tung said...

ante kala stefana cubeart! ;P

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