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Best Music of 2002: Music for Rootless Cosmopolitans (published before US release)
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Popmatters.com, Best Music of 2002: Music for Rootless Cosmopolitans (published before US release) >>
Rise Up! confirms the Klezmatics' status as one of the most innovative, challenging and unclassifiable voices in klezmer and avant-garde Jewish music today. Rise Up! renounces all manner of high unholy madness: messianic politics, the self-righteous fire-and-brimstone moralizing of fascist faith, a demagogic language of enemies and evildoers, covert secular crusades, clandestine detention and inquisition sans habeas corpus, deception and hypocrisy, the dismissive pre-meditated assurance of cultural warriors and sanitized mass murder, all on a mission from god. The Klezmatics' deep gospel rendition of the title track, penned by Holly Near, has a prophetic quality that refuses fundamentalism of every stripe. It seems doubtful that a band of this spirit, complexity and integrity will perform next year in Jerusalem. But as debates over the past are always arguments about political struggle in the here-and-now, one can only hope that Rounder will see fit to release this dissident lyrical masterpiece. 12/31/02 >> go there
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