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5.0 out of 5 stars
Berlin Wall meets Wailing Wall, Sep 30 2003
This review is from: Balagane (Frn) (Audio CD)
This is an incredible CD. Bandleader and songwriter Paul Kunigis sings in Hebrew, Arabic, Polish and French -- and throws all these cultures into his musical bouillabaise. The result incorporates the sounds of Klezmer, Arabic music, the Central European pub and the Paris cafe -- a kind of Wandering-Jewish blues that expresses the entire history of the 20th Century, from the point of view of a man whose identity slips casually between Polish, Israeli and Canadian from song to song. This is the first CD I've found that matches the particular kind of brilliance of the Klezmatics and the Czech merry pranksters Jablkon.
Balagane is produced by the brilliant Yves Desrosiers, who's also responsible for another incredible Montreal-based world music recording -- Lhasa's La Llorona.
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