Carnival Conspiracy
Carnival, Klezmer Brass Allstar style. Frank London brings together over 40 musicians from 8 countries on 4 continents for the ultimate Jewish conspiracy. This original PIRANHA release is a musical travelogue, from frenzied Hasidic pop to sensual Brazilian-Mexican-Yiddish songs of love and angst. Shake your tuchiss, blow your mind.
Paintings by Richard Kenigsman
http://www.kenigsman.com
Carnival is No Laughing Matter
Most noble and honourable people, illustrious drinkers all. You have imbibed the Di Shikere Kapelye, consumed the Brotherhood of Brass. True Believers and Johns that you are, you have taken the veracity of their texts on faith as if they were Holy Doctrine. Intoxicated by the musical spirits into abandoning your powers of critical thinking, some intrepid souls have gone so far as to advance the ideas set forth. On this count you deserve rewards in this world and the next, as well as my undying gratitude.
So it is with the deepest humility that I must confess: there was no "Inebriated Orchestra," no band of itinerant alcoholics who invented Klezmer music. And of the mystical triumvirate Gypsy, Jews and Moors, illustrious model of a cooperative world so necessary in our troubled and conflicted times that I purported had worked together to combat the evils of the medieval Church and bring on the final redemption? The word exaggeration comes to mind. I deceived you with these bald-faced lies and deserve rebuke, reprimand and far worse.
My heart is contrite; I will endure my punishment. Forced residence in a Bush-Giuliani's "I (heart) fascism" New York, USA is insufficient; I should be exiled to the Isle of Winds (where trumpeters die while emitting gases and their souls leave the body via the rectum). Being surrounded by flatulence is too subtle a rebuke, flagellation barely sufficient retribution. For the ....... więcej