Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird
Lost Causes (CD)

RIENCD77

CD of the year 2010 in the category "World Music" by
the Association of German Record Critics.
Released: 1.XII.2010
Musicians:
Daniel Kahn: Voice, Accordion, Piano, Guitars, Ukulele et al.
Hampus Melin: Drums, Poyk, Junk Percussion
Michael Tuttle: Contrabass
Jake Shulman-Ment: Fiddle, Voice
Michael Winograd: Clarinets
Dan Blacksberg: Trombones
Paul Brody: Trumpet, Flugel Horn
Vanya Zhuk: Guitar, Voice
Tine Kindermann: Musical Saw & Voice
Emma Goldman said, “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.”
Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird’s new album, “Lost Causes”, insists that we can do both.
Since 2005, Berlin/New York-based Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird have become an international cult phenomenon that defies easy categorization. Yiddish Punk Cabaret? Eastern Borderland Folk-Rock? Alienation Klezmer?
On “Lost Causes”, their third album, Kahn mixes superb original songs such as “Sunday After The War”, “Görlitzer Park,” and “Klezmer Bund,” with his radical adaptations of Yiddish and German classics from masters such as Gebirtig (“March of the Jobless Corps”, “Avreml the Filcher”) and Brecht (“Denn Wovon Lebt Der Mensch?”). He sings of unemployment, war, resistance, love amongst ruins with a sense of urgency, relevance, heart, and dark humor.
The Painted Bird are joined by many legendary guests including Michael Alpert, Adrienne Cooper, and Lorin Sklamberg.
Rocking, tender, political, poetic, and furious, these “Lost Causes” are only waiting to be found and fought for. Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird have proven that the revolution can dance.

Track listing:

1. Avreml the filcher 05:27
2. Vemen veln mir dinen? 01:18
3. Sunday after the war 05:47
4. March of the jobless corps 03:48
5. In Kamf 02:22
6. Vi Azoy? 04:44
7. Inner Emigration 06:04
8. Denn wovon lebt der Mensch? 03:53
9. Lili Marleyn, fartaytsht 03:15
10. Görlitzer Park 04:39
11. Zeyde Cohen Medley 03:55
12. The Klezmer Bund 03:53
13. A Miller’s Tears 04:22
total playing time: 53:27

Published: 2010

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