golem-homesick songs

Young, hip widely acclaimed New York-based Klezmer/Rock band GOLEM (named after the legendary Jewish Frankenstein of Prague) transforms the music of its Jewish grandparents, making it modern, edgy, sexy and brash. GOLEM has infused the World Music scene with a breath of fresh air from Eastern Europe. Their explosive onstage attitude gets Klezmer to rock.

Fronted by Annette Ezekiel - bandleader, accordionist and singer - as well as madcap vocalist Aaron Diskin and violin virtuoso Alicia Jo Rabins, the band's six members, all in their 20's and 30's, create GOLEM's powerfully vibrant sound.
Through updated versions of old Yiddish tunes, Golem seduces audiences of Klezmer fans and rockers alike, and is equally at home in venues as varied as rock clubs, synagogues, and concert halls, from Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park to the rock clubs of the Lower East Side.

Their new CD, Homesick Songs, is a veritable party in a box. It also possesses a historical message - each track on the album evokes old-world cities, towns and countries longed for by homesick Jewish immigrants: Odessa, Romania, Bukovina, Nikolayev, Belz and Bialystok. The album also features wild gypsy songs that Annette learned during her travels in Serbia, Russia, and Ukraine. The result is a musical romp through Eastern Europe and beyond. A snapshot of shtetl life through the filter of a much younger generation,

Annette Ezequiel: voz, acordeón
Aaron Diskin: voz, pandereta
Alicia Jo Rabins: violín
Curtis Hasselbring: trombón
Taylor-Bergren Chrisman: contrabajo
Laura Cromwell: batería

1.Odesaa (Peysekhe Burstein)
2.Chiribim (trad.)
3.Grine Kuzine (music: Abe Schwartz; lyrics: Chaim Prizant)
4.Romanesh (trad.)
5.Mito
6.Nikolayev
7.Rumenye (Aaron Lebedeff)
8.Bukovinsky (trad.)
9.Zlatopol (music: Alexander Olshanetsky; lyrics: Jacob Jacobs)
10.Bialystok (Annette Ezekiel)
11.Turkmenistaner (trad.)
12.Belz (music: Alexander Olshanetsky; lyrics: Jacob Jacobs)

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