Album Features
UPC:    780702429223
Artist:    Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band
Format:    CD
Release Year:    1999
Record Label:    Traditional Crossroads
Genre:    International, Jewish

Track Listing
1. Tsirkus
2. Flora
3. Highwire
4. Lomir Zikh Iberbetn
5. Infidel Tants
6. Greengrass
7. Sideshow
8. Hora
9. If Truth Be Told...
10. Oy Vey Mameshe
11. To a Woman Socialist
12. Rebns Tants
13. Flora Hora
14. Mazel Tov Variations

Details
Playing Time:    62 min.
Producer:    David Buchbinder, Jeff Wolpert, Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, Harold Hagopian
Distributor:    Bayside Record Dist.
Recording Type:    Studio
Recording Mode:    Stereo
SPAR Code:    n/a

Album Notes
The Flying Bulgars is a Toronto-based ensemble. The band has been a significant part of the so-called 'Klezmer Revival' that began in the early 1980s, both in Canada and around the world. Formed by trumpeter and bandleader David Buchbinder in 1987, and now co-lead with Dave Wall, The Flying Bulgars (the Bulgar in the group's name refers to a dance form not an ethnic group) were a product of the rebirth of interest in Yiddish culture in North America.

Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band: Dave Wall (vocals, alto saxophone); Andrew Downing (guitar, acoustic bass); Lori Freedman (clarinet, bass clarinet); David Buchbinder (trumpet, flugelhorn); Marilyn Lerner (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Daniel Barnes (drums, percussion).Personnel: Dave Wall (vocals, alto saxophone); Andrew Downing (electric guitar, double bass); Lori Freedman (clarinet, bass clarinet); David Buchbinder (trumpet, flugelhorn); Marilyn Lerner (piano); Daniel Barnes (drums, percussion).Liner Note Authors: David Buchbinder; Marilyn Lerner.Recording information: Puck's Farm, Schomberg, Ontario, Canada (03/06/1999-03/10/1999).Translators: Michael Wex; Hindy Nosek-Abelson.

Just as the classic Klezmer (the word means itinerant musician) of the nineteen twenties mixed everything they knew and heard to make their music, so the members of The Flying Bulgars bring their own broad musical experience to the band in its 21st century configuration. Leader, main composer and founder David Buchbinder has studied with some of the most accomplished jazz men around from Freddie Stone to Kenny Wheeler to Muhal Richard Abrams. He is at home playing many styles of contemporary music and is breaking out as a composer of film and concert music. Daniel Barnes is a highly accomplished drummer whose credits include Joe Sealey's Juno award winning Africville Suite and touring with Ethiopian diva Aster Aweke. Marilyn Lerner is involved in so many projects it is hard to list them all. A pianist of uncommon ability her love for Klezmer based music is reflected in her work with the Bulgars, her collaboration with Dave Wall on a project of contemporary Yiddish song and her membership in Both Ends of the Earth. Bob Stevenson, on clarinet and bass clarinet, brings his long experience in jazz and new music to Klezmer. In addition to ensembles like Arraymusic and Hemispheres, he conducted the 20 piece Klezmer Ashkenaz Orchestra. Bass master, Victor Bateman recently returned to the band after a long absence. Victor was the band's first bassist. He is well known for his work with an almost infinite variety of jazz, folk, world and pop artists as well as his own work as a band leader and very individual interpreter of folk music. He also leads workshops in improvisation. Dave Wall came to the Flying Bulgars from the Bourbon Tabernacle Choir with whom he recorded three CDs. Moved by a desire to focus on his Yiddish roots, Dave has become the finest singer of Yiddish song in the country.

Since their founding in 1987 The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band has worked consistently to develop a musical language that is specific to its place and time, rooted squarely in a folk tradition while embracing the possibilities of the present. This attention to the development of a personal sound along with a highly charged performance style has opened extensive performing opportunities over the years, allowing the band tour across Canada and internationally. From the Folk on the Rocks Festival in Yellowknife to the WOMAD festival in Morcombe, England, to the Tollwood Festival in Munich, to the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival in New York.

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