Tra le tante cose che il grande Woody Guthrie ha lasciato dietro di sè c'è anche una corposa raccolta di testi scritti e mai musicati. I suoi eredi, per musicarli, hanno coinvolto una prima volta Billy Bragg ed i Wilco, con ottimi risultati. Correva il 1998 e la combinazione del inglesissimo Bragg e degli americanissimi Wilco had led to a very intense album, sure of success (as far as to say, a Grammy nomination), certainly unbalanced side to the stars and stripes, to the great wealth of steel guitars, banjo, Hammond organ.
Now, at the instigation of Nora Guthrie, we reprove the Klezmatics, with ingredients, this time is completely different. Although American passport, the Klezmatics are from a cultural area some distance from the American country-folk and their curiosity about how they could apply their jazz and klezmer styles kissed on the rhymes of verses of Guthrie was matched only by doubts about the success. I admit to having bought the CD with some hesitation, and the idea of \u200b\u200bbeing with an album of covers Guthrie's own version of klezmer terrified me. But with a great move displace all the Klezmatics and offer a kaleidoscope of melodic jazz and klezmer has little nothing. How un'insalatona where at the end everyone will harmonize well Klezmatics ranging from lullabies to Morricone, from Celtic music to the Middle East passing through psychedelia, places ecstatic vocals and distorted guitars, engaging in a good vocalist training Celtic (Susan McKeown) and a guitarist that can not be more American (Boo Reiner). It takes less than 7 tracks to get the first taste of klezmer and true, and in the meantime has passed through Arabian violin, Scottish mists, trumpets Mediterranean and tropical winds. Difficult to identify a favorite song, maybe the heartfelt gospel of "Holy round" or the frantic "Mermaid Avenue"-style zydeco calypseggiante, in the end what is most pleasing is the sense of an intoxicating cultural miscegenation, a musician and as a huge baobab has so many roots that no longer worth the trouble to count them. Oh, and also won the Grammy.
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