July 02, 2007

Klezmer Metal Mash-Up

Klezmer metal is kind of the last frontier of folk-metal. We seem to have all kind of weird and wonderful metal fusions these days and great bands like Finntroll and Korpiklaani are drawing on Baltic folk-styles that are pretty close to klezmer.  But there's been no one brave enough or interested enough to actually go ahead and try and fuse klezmer and metal - perhaps because the klezmer scene is very hip and progressive and such people don't often like metal.  Okay, okay John Zorn is a partial exception.

Anyway, I found on youtube this odd little experiment in mashing up metal and klezmer. It's a one off thing (conducted at some Seattle youth music project in March 2007) and doesn't work brilliantly but it's certainly interesting:

2 Jul 2007 11:08:15

2 Comments

Jack

Keith, that's pretty cool. Would have been better of the Klezmer wasn't so swingy. Thanks for posting it. When are we going to see your 'mid-life crisis' video?

Posted by: Jack | July 02, 2007 at 01:51 PM

necroslayer

what a wonderfull experiment, thank you for your informations.

Posted by: necroslayer | March 17, 2011 at 03:46 PM

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