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Album Review

Complete with sticker sheet and illustrated story book, Pincus and the Pig is a joyfully Jewish take on every child's introduction to the symphony orchestra and its instruments. It also serves here as an apt family entrée to the wonderful catalogue of the Boston based klezmer ensemble Shirim. At the forefront of the musical evolution that would become Radical Jewish Culture with their 1993 release Naftule's Dream, the band has subsequently assumed two distinct personalities. Taking their name from the ...

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Album Review

Shirim: Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale

Read "Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 23, 2004

This is the first children's disc in the most varied Radical Jewish Culture series of John Zorn's Tzadik label. There were rumors last year of a new series under the ever-evolving Tzadik label that will offer children's discs, for which keyboard player and composer Wayne Horvitz and his partner, singer/songwriter and pianist Robin Holcomb, as well as percussionists and partners Susie Ibarra and Roberto Juan Rodriguez, were due to record, but, so far, Zorn is keeping us waiting. ...