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Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf!
Studio album by
The Klezmatics
Released2003
GenreKlezmer
LabelRounder Records[1]
The Klezmatics chronology
The Well: Klezmatics with Chava Alberstein
(1998) 		Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf!
(2003) 		Brother Moses Smote the Water
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Robert ChristgauA−[3]
Los Angeles Daily News[4]
Los Angeles Times[5]
Pitchfork8.0/10[6]

Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf! is an album by the American klezmer group the Klezmatics.[7][8] It was released in 2003.[9]

Production

"I Ain't Afraid" is a cover of the Holly Near song.[5] "Barikadn" samples the voice of the activist Shmerke Kaczerginski.[4]

Critical reception

Robert Christgau wrote: "Leaning on the mournful Eastern European modalities the shtetl assimilated long ago—check especially the Matt Darriau threnody and Frank London prayer—the Klezmatics conjure an album as soaked in 9/11 as The Rising, whose similar title is no coincidence."[3]

AllMusic wrote that "the emphasis is most definitely on songs, rather than instrumentals, and for the most part they keep their fire quite restrained, rarely letting the instrumental work fly into the stratosphere as they have in the past."[2]

Track listing

  1. Klezmorimlekh mayne libinke
  2. Kats un Moyz
  3. Loshn-Koydesh
  4. Tepel
  5. I Ain't Afraid
  6. Di Gayster
  7. Yo Riboyn Olam
  8. Bulgars #2
  9. Barikadn
  10. Davenen
  11. St. John's Nign
  12. Hevil iz Havolim
  13. Makht oyf!
  14. Perets-Tanst
  15. I Ain't Afraid (English edit)

References

  1. ^ Margasak, Peter (August 5, 2004). "Klezmatics". Chicago Reader.
  2. ^ a b "Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf! - The Klezmatics | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  3. ^ a b "Robert Christgau: CG: The Klezmatics". www.robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ a b Zonkel, Phillip (18 July 2003). "SOUND CHECK". Los Angeles Daily News. p. U24.
  5. ^ a b Heckman, Don (8 June 2003). "Traditional and innovative? It must be the Klezmatics". Los Angeles Times. p. E48.
  6. ^ "Klezmatics: Rise Up!". Pitchfork.
  7. ^ "The Klezmatics Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  8. ^ Takiff, Jonathan (13 May 2003). "GLOBAL SEASONINGS". Philadelphia Daily News. Features. p. 34.
  9. ^ Rogovoy, Seth (9 May 2003). "Not Your Father's Klezmer -- But Neither Was His". The Forward. p. 10.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_Up!_Shteyt_Oyf!

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