Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
Bad Old Songs (CD)

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Album "Bad Old Songs" wins 'German Record Critics' Award 2013!
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"Bad Old Songs", Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird's new album, is a dark and more intimate follow-up to their award-winning "Lost Causes" (2011 Oriente Musik).
Kahn aficionados will recognize his unique way of mixing own compositions with extraordinary rearrangements and adaptions to one harmonious creation. Originals like Kahn's wicked Berliner ostalgie ballad "Good Old Bad Old Days" and the anti-love blues "Love Lays Low" meet polyglot reinventions of Yiddish folk songs and classics from Leonard Cohen, Franz Josef Degenhardt, and Dionysos Savvopoulos, culminating in the rearrangement of „Die alten bösen Lieder“ (The Bad Old Songs), a poem written by Heinrich Heine and later set to music by Robert Schumann.
Kahn collected old songs and new ones cursing the past or the present and sings about crestfallen love, suffer and misery, misguided religiousness and undesired heritage. In the desolate borderlands between Berlin, Detroit, New York, and Yiddishland, these Bad Old Songs are the midnight reveries of a lost time that is yet to come.
6-page-Digipak with 16 page booklet.

Skladby:

1. A Meydl from Berlin
2. Love Lays Low
3. Good Old Bad Old Days
4. Die Alten Lieder
5. Groys Dasad
6. Story of Isaac
7. Godbrother
8. The Marriage Hearse / Umet Umetum
9. Die Alten Bösen Lieder
10. Olaria Olara

Rok vydání: 2012

Žánr: Klezmer & Izrael & Jiddish & Sephardic
Label: Oriente Musik