Fialke have very nicely internalized a pre-America klezmer style, and it is lovely. This is klezmer without the jazz overlays of the American version. Rather, as one senses instantly as the bass bows the intro to "fiselekh," this is an old-timey klezmer music, mixed in with Jewish folk music. And it does sound delightful. Although not as fiery as, say, De Naye Kapelye, this is a band squarely in the tradition of that band's sound, or the sound of Budowitz. Unlike those bands, this is also a band modeled less on the traditional klezmer band as a wedding band. Rather, Fialke recreates that sound and adds Yiddish folk music for a non-traditional concert audience. -- Reviewed by Ari Davidow 8/10/03 

Personnel this recording: 

Monika Feil: violin, vocal 

Joachim Pohl: Eb, Bb clarinets 

Tomaz Radomski: double bass (vocal on #8) 

Emuk Kungl: accordion 

Guest: Joshua Horowitz: tsimbl 

Songs 

Fiselekh (after Abe Elenkrig and Harry Kandel) 2:38 

Fidl doina (trad., after Abe Schwartz) 2:40 

Hora (trad., after Wolff Kostakowsky) 2:27 

Serba (trad., after Kostakowsky) 1:30 

Kale bazetsns (trad., inspired by Tarras) 2:12 

Zayt mir gezunt, khavertes ale (trad.) 2:22 

Der khazn baym rebn (after Belz) 3:06 

Oy, avrom (Zimroh Zeligfield) 2:05 

A grus fun der alter heym (Monika Feil) 2:42 

Lipovetskaya (after Belf) 3:08 

Doina (trad.) 1:47 

Rumanski zhok (trad.) 1:45 

Forn forstu fun mir avek (trad.) 2:45 

Freylakhs (after Kostakowsky) 2:44 

Khotinskaya (after Belf) 1:21 

Rumenishe fantaziye nr. 1 (Solinski) 2:26 

Baym rebn (after Belf) 3:03 

S'iz nitokeyn nekhtn (trad.) 2:15 

Odessa bulgar (Mishka Ziganoff) 2:04 

Baginen nokh der khasene (trad., after Belf) 2:23 

Rusisher sher (trad., after M. I. Rabinovitsh) 1:59 

Indroyn iz fintster (trad.) 2:07 

Aleykhem sholem (trad., arr. Josh Horowitz) 1:10 

All tracks traditional/arranged by Monika Feil, except no. 9, composed by Monika Feil and No. 23, trad., arr. Josh Horowitz. 

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