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The Israeli composer Kutiman–also known as Ophir Kutiel–might not play an instrument, but he can make a symphony. Kutiman came to the world’s attention with the project ThruYou. He collected YouTube films of amateur musicians playing in front of home video cameras  and played the tracks together, mixing them into amazing, funk-laced symphonies. The result, when he posted them online, garnered literally […]

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“There aren’t a lot of Jewish cowboys,” says 52-year-old Scott Gerber. In the 1940s, his uncle Sol moved from Chicago to California, and worked along with other family members as a chicken rancher. They were progressives and workers’-rights activists…and they were cowboys. Today, Scott keeps up the tradition. He sings Yiddish songs and plays country guitar. And he tends […]

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Although most people associate klezmer music with Eastern Europe, the modern style of fast-tempo was actually developed in America–in the late 19th century, first performed by immigrants who wanted to play new-world music with old-country instruments. The sixteen songs on Transylvania Avenue, the new album by Black Sea Station, are evocations of old European Jewish culture. Alternately moody and joyous, raucous […]

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