Rachelle Garniez("Greetings from the Isle of Klezbos" CD); Art Bailey (Abi Gezunt swing ’05 live)
... vocals:
Deborah Karpel("Greetings from the Isle of Klezbos" CD),
Judith Berkson, Melissa Fogarty, Mira Stroika
... bass:
Saskia Lane
Anna Milat-Meyer ("Comes Love")
Catherine Popper ("Greetings from the Isle of Klezbos" CD); George Rush (Abi Gezunt swing ’05 live)
... guest trombonist - Jacob Garchik! (Szol a Kakas Mar live)
Influences
Where to begin? The klezmer ancestors (Naftule Brandwein, Dave Tarras, and our dear departed Howie Leess), Yiddish forebears (Menashe Oppenheim, Solomon Mikhoels, Isa Kremer, Lev Pulver, Henokh Kon, Molly Picon, Grandpa Phillip Karpel), and then... so many other people and bands too: Nina Simone, Lionel [Begleiter] Bart, Lionel Belasco, Joni Mitchell, Harold Arlen, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Chopin, Gershwin, Beethoven, Kodaly, Bartok, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Mavis Staples, Jule Styne, The Roches, The McGarrigles, The Beatles, Regina Spektor, Bjork, Radiohead, Burning Spear, Charlie Parker, Vinicius Cantuaria, Los Mas Valientes, Leonard Bernstein, The Klezmatics, Aretha Franklin, Miriam Makeba, Erik Satie, Stravinsky, Alfred Schnittke, Rachelle Garniez, Alison Bechdel, The Five Lesbian Brothers, Gregg Bordowitz, Vito Russo ~ and: Metropolitan Klezmer (check that page for more of our influences)!
Sounds Like
“Isle of Klezbos tests the elasticity of the genre”
- The New Yorker
"One of the finest young klezmer bands ever to appear on the block"
- Phat Planet (UK)
“Talent as strong as its name is provocative... The all-female group is to Eastern European Jewish music what Cherish The Ladies is to Celtic”
- Courier News
“Great ears and great hearts”
- Der Pakn Treger, National Yiddish Book Center
"A supergroup... with an offbeat sense of humor and a relaxed sense of swing"
- George Robinson, Jewish Week
"Internationally acclaimed and much-loved... We'd make a joke, but they beat us to it."
- Time Out New York
"The absolute top of the klezmer genre"
- RootsTown, Belgium
"Excellent, haunting all-female klezmer band... featuring the human crescendo Pam Fleming on trumpet, a slinky frontwoman, and the astonishingly inventive Eve Sicular on drums"
- Lucid Culture
"Powerhouse, soulful all-female klezmer sextet... These women will make you shake your tushies!"
- Village Voice Choices Pick
"For a musical holiday, procure a ticket to the the Isle of Klezbos... an upbeat getaway... a refreshing fluidity...'irreverent respect.'"
- Ginger Mason, X-tra West, Vancouver BC
Klezmer assortment pack of Yiddish-inspired dance, trance, swing, tango, and originals since 1998 ~ from Vienna to Vancouver. Savoring and subverting tradition, as heard on The L Word, PBS, and CNN Worldbeat ... "These women will make you shake your tushies!" - Village Voice
Our debut disc, "Greetings from the Isle of Klezbos" (Rhythm Media Records 004, distributed by Stern's Music worldwide) is available at iTunes, and at CDBaby & many other sites, as well as in stores worldwide. An Outmusic Award nominee, Outstanding Producer:
.. CDBaby link, ISLE OF KLEZBOS: Greetings from the Isle of Klezbos -->
You can hear us on the new Metropolitan Klezmer live in-concert CD "Traveling Show"! Not only are most Klezbians featured in MK's octet, there's the 'Klezbonus' studio track too: COMES LOVE (Yiddish/Latin groove style)
.. CDBaby link, Traveling Show -->
Isle of Klezbos also makes cameo appearances on Metropolitan Klezmer's 2001 release "Mosaic Persuasion":
.. CDBaby link: Mosaic Persuasion -->
And here's a snippet of trumpeter Pam Fleming soloing on her new kudu (antelope) shofar horn with most of the Klezbos bandmates at a Metropolitan Klezmer gig. She'll be playing this at some of our upcoming shows too. Kudu kudos to Pam and to our accomplished video editor, Rich Brotman of Magnetic Post NYC:
Hi yes it was Banff at Lake Louise.... sorry for taking so long I used more facebook but now I will used this site also. I am thinking to put some music soon
Hello Friends, Many Thanks for being my new "space" friends. Find your music really super and love it very much ! Wish you many many success !! Have a fabulous week ! Musical Greetings, Rose-Marie, Belgium
What a fun dbl bill at DROM!!! Lez do it again!!!! ...and if you're around NYC Sat Mar 15 in the Village- I'll be w/ Hazmat Modine at Terra Blues. They're filming for Euro TV.-Peace- -Pam Fleming
It was so wonderful having you, Pam and the rest of Isle of Klezbos in WBAI-FM this past Friday night! I really had a FUNKY good time! You CANNOT have the CD back! :-)
ejeje, czesc, hi Klezbros! It is recorded during the final concert, from the 3th edition of the project which happened in 2006. The solo is performed by Mantas from Vilnius and our drummer Bartek from Sejny. Big up! Michal
Mais ouais, ca serait un bon temps If yall ever make it down here, lemme know, maybe we see y'all in NYC kick it klezbos Y'all play at Superfine? in DUMBO LBR
cant wait to come home from this long ass tour and hopefully be able to catch your show before i have to come back here in april. you broads are bad ass. xo candye in amsterdam
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