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Some music stuff
May. 31st, 2023 07:27 pm9 Languages by Karolina Cicha
I bought this album like a decade ago, and I definitely listened to it a few times back when I bought it, but for some reason I pulled it out and have been listening to it pretty constantly for the past month and it is so fucking great. The title is descriptive: The thirteen songs on the album are in 9 languages of Eastern Europe: Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Russian, Romani, Belarusian, Yiddish, Polish and Tatarian. Cicha and her bandmates are extraordinarily versatile multi-instrumentalists, the songs have consistently interesting and gripping arrangement and production that pull in all the weird sounds into a consistent and delightfully surprising whole, and Cicha's voice is astoundingly expressive even in spite of the distance created by the languages I don't speak.
The Washington Street Sessions by Jacob's Ladder
Profoundly grateful to the Almighty Algorithm for introducing me to Jacob's Ladder (formerly Kol Kahol) on youtube. They play fantastic Jewgrass, I love it so much. Apparently they have a full length album coming out soon. Can't wait to hear it.
From the Depths by Aryeh Kunstler
Discovered while searching for A Serious Man vidsongs, the music has Blue Fringe-y vibes, but with an earnestness that I always found a little lacking in Blue Fringe. Even a goofy, clearly Blue Fringe-y joke song about breaking up with your chavrusa has a little of that heartbreaking earnestness. (And also is probably about 50X as queer as he intended it to be?)
I bought this album like a decade ago, and I definitely listened to it a few times back when I bought it, but for some reason I pulled it out and have been listening to it pretty constantly for the past month and it is so fucking great. The title is descriptive: The thirteen songs on the album are in 9 languages of Eastern Europe: Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Russian, Romani, Belarusian, Yiddish, Polish and Tatarian. Cicha and her bandmates are extraordinarily versatile multi-instrumentalists, the songs have consistently interesting and gripping arrangement and production that pull in all the weird sounds into a consistent and delightfully surprising whole, and Cicha's voice is astoundingly expressive even in spite of the distance created by the languages I don't speak.
The Washington Street Sessions by Jacob's Ladder
Profoundly grateful to the Almighty Algorithm for introducing me to Jacob's Ladder (formerly Kol Kahol) on youtube. They play fantastic Jewgrass, I love it so much. Apparently they have a full length album coming out soon. Can't wait to hear it.
From the Depths by Aryeh Kunstler
Discovered while searching for A Serious Man vidsongs, the music has Blue Fringe-y vibes, but with an earnestness that I always found a little lacking in Blue Fringe. Even a goofy, clearly Blue Fringe-y joke song about breaking up with your chavrusa has a little of that heartbreaking earnestness. (And also is probably about 50X as queer as he intended it to be?)