MUSICIANS:

KLEZMER BRASS ALLSTARS:
Frank London - trumpet, alto horn, piccolo trumpet
Susan Sandler - trumpet, vocals
Mark Hamilton - trombone
David Harris - trombone, baritone horn
Curtis Hasselbring - trombone
Merlin Shepherd - Bb/C clarinet, Eb piccolo clarinet
Matt Darriau - Bb/C clarinets, alto saxophone, gaida
Mark Rubin - bass helicon
Aaron Alexander - drum set, poyk, snare drum
Matt Moran - bass drum

BOBAN MARKOVIC ORKESTAR:
Boban Markovic - trumpet/flugelhorn
Ajdarevic Jovica - trumpet/flugelhorn
Spasic Srdjan - trumpet/flugelhorn
Krstic Momcilo - saxophone
Eminovic Dragoljub - tenor horn
Eminovic Selistar - tenor horn
Ajdinovic Asim - tenor horn
Eminovic Srdjan - tenor horn
Alisanovic Sasa - helicon
Stanojevic Sasa - snare drum
Eminovic Asmet - goc

HASABALLA BRASS BAND:
Abd Elhamid Kamel - clarinet
Abdallah Mahmoud Shalby - trumpet
Hasanien Mostafa Hasanien - bariton sax
Mohamed Mohamed Ahmed - snare drum
Ezzat Ahmed Ali - bass drum
Ali El Omda - hi hat

Editor's info:

The ultimate of what brass bands can give to sound and soul: Thousands of years after the fall of the tower of Babel Jews, Moors and Gypsies finally reunite. Masters of brass from New York, Cairo and the Balkans meet to celebrate the rediscovered traits of their common past in mystic knowledge - and lung power.

"For Frank London, the house band in the Garden of Eden is stacked with brass, lots of brass: trumpets, trombones, tubas, percussion, and maybe, just maybe, one clarinet for good measure. And it's always a party there, too." Seth Rogovoy



Around the World in a Few Thousand Years - (the full story of the "Brotherhood Of Brass")

The encounter between Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars, the Boban Markovic Orkestar and Cairo's Hasaballa Brass Band -- brass bands representing three great trans-national "nations" (Jews, Roma and Moors) -- may seem extra-ordinary in light of our contemporary socio-political situation. But when viewed in a larger historical context, this is just the latest in a series of ongoing encounters between these groups that has effected the course of world history for millennia. And the goal of this 21st-century musical meeting is nothing less than the rebuilding of the holy temple and the restoration of the unity of all nations as they existed in Paradise.

(Part 1) Pre-history: Babel
The world is united. One people - nation - language. In an effort to regain the sanctity of the Garden of Eden, a plan is devised to ascend to the heavens and return to God. Sacred Builders design a tower using the sefirot Kabalah tree as a diagram - for the tower is the Tree of Life - to be supported by three pillars. Unbeknownst to them, a reactionary cabal with less-than-holy intentions plot to use the tower to challenge God! God destroys the tower and divides the people of the world into separate nations with different languages. The "Builders" .......
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The ultimate of what brass bands can give to sound and soul: Thousands of years after the fall of the tower of Babel Jews, Moors and Gypsies finally reunite. Masters of brass from New York, Cairo and the Balkans meet to celebrate the rediscovered traits of their common past in mystic knowledge - and lung power.

"For Frank London, the house band in the Garden of Eden is stacked with brass, lots of brass: trumpets, trombones, tubas, percussion, and maybe, just maybe, one clarinet for good measure. And it's always a party there, too." Seth Rogovoy



Around the World in a Few Thousand Years - (the full story of the "Brotherhood Of Brass")

The encounter between Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars, the Boban Markovic Orkestar and Cairo's Hasaballa Brass Band -- brass bands representing three great trans-national "nations" (Jews, Roma and Moors) -- may seem extra-ordinary in light of our contemporary socio-political situation. But when viewed in a larger historical context, this is just the latest in a series of ongoing encounters between these groups that has effected the course of world history for millennia. And the goal of this 21st-century musical meeting is nothing less than the rebuilding of the holy temple and the restoration of the unity of all nations as they existed in Paradise.

(Part 1) Pre-history: Babel
The world is united. One people - nation - language. In an effort to regain the sanctity of the Garden of Eden, a plan is devised to ascend to the heavens and return to God. Sacred Builders design a tower using the sefirot Kabalah tree as a diagram - for the tower is the Tree of Life - to be supported by three pillars. Unbeknownst to them, a reactionary cabal with less-than-holy intentions plot to use the tower to challenge God! God destroys the tower and divides the people of the world into separate nations with different languages. The "Builders" (.......
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