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Frank London's
Klezmer Brass Allstars
Carnival Conspiracy:
In the Marketplace
All is Subterfudge
Piranha
Apparently, the first Jews in North America from Brazil, Vaguely in homage, klezmer's mad scientist Frank London assembles a Carnaval record in which the classic Central European big-brass and accordion stretch out over tropical shtetl. There's samba here and banda and tripped-out electronica on songs with long strange titles like "Oh Agony, You Are So Sweet Like Sugar I must to East You Up." The feeling is that of the latter stages of a well-irrigated evening full of unexpected events, which will lead to either ecstasy or a terrible headache. Drinking, in fact, is the mail theme of London's self-penned liner notes, along with petulant politics and strange fascination with flatulence. But if you can get past that, your reward is to join London and his merry pranksters in grabbing the wild diversity of today's Lower East Side and translating it back into the neighborhood's original Yiddish, arranged for chorals and tuba. In the end, it's not recognizably Carnaval music, but its perfect for a liberated Hanukkah.
By. Siddhartha Mitter 12/23/05
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