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FRANK LONDON'S KLEZMER
BRASS ALLSTARS
Carnival Conspiracy
(Piranha/ Fussion III)
Trumpeter and band leader London's history with the Klezmatics and Hasidic New Wave have made him a front-line figure in the recent klemer resurgence, but here he's hardly conspiring to toot his own horn (no excusing the pun, London's gleefully paranoid liner notes are full of 'em). With 40 musicians from four continents and all but three of its dozen tracks taken from traditional songbooks, Carnival Conspiracy is a frezied eruption klezmer through the loud, crowded craziness of Big Easy brass bands and Brizilian carnival. And like a street patry to which everyone's invited, it quickly gets hot, sweaty and dizzyingly intense. 8/10 (Rupert Bottenberg) 01/12/06
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