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Yoshie Fruchter's Pitom: Alive and Well
by Max Kutner
Yoshie Fruchter has been a presence within the Radical Jewish and Modern Klezmer music circles for nearly 3 decades. His ensemble, Pitom, showcases many facets of his deep knowledge in those scenes as filtered through the sludge-clouded lenses of grunge, doom, and just straight metal. The band has released three full length albums since its inception, including Pitom (Tzadik, 2008), a follow-up entitled Blasphemy And Other Serious Crimes (Tzadik, 2011), both housed on John Zorn 's Tzadik imprint--and now, Alive and Well ...
Continue ReadingDavid Krakauer & Kathleen Tagg: Mazel Tov Cocktail Party!
by Chris M. Slawecki
When David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg announced the release of Mazel Tov Cocktail Party! , they included this accompanying statement: “This project riffs off a slip of the tongue by a conservative pundit who called Molotov Cocktails “Mazel Tov" Cocktails. We were tickled by the imagery of a “Mazel Tov Cocktail" lighting up the world with hope and joy—instead of being a destructive force... We wanted to take traditional, old dance forms and completely recast them to bring an overt ...
Continue ReadingYoshie Fruchter: Schizophonia: Cantorial Recordings Reimagined
by Dave Wayne
A stalwart of New York City's astoundingly creative Judaic music scene, multi-instrumentalist and composer Yoshie Fruchter specializes in one thing: moving on from what he's already accomplished. Though he has two genre-smashing albums of edgy, Judaic jazz- rock-prog fusion on John Zorn's Tzadik label under his belt (Blasphemy and Other Serious Crimes, Tzadik Records, 2011, and the now out-of-print Pitom, Tzadik Records, 2008), Fruchter has also contributed his talents to several of Zorn's projects, and an array of unlikely hyphenated ...
Continue ReadingYoshie Fruchter: Pitom
by AAJ Italy Staff
Occhio, questi graffiano! Evidentemente il buon John Zorn ha deciso di prendere alla lettera il nome che ha assegnato alla fortunata serie “Radical Jewish Culture". Dopo Koby Isrealite, Jamie Saft, Jon Madof & Rashanim, Eyal Maoz e altri, arriva il tempo per il quartetto guidato dal chitarrista Yoshie Fruchter. Con questo Pitom ci troviamo nel bel mezzo di un incrocio pericoloso fra l'energia dei King Crimson di metà anni settanta, la Mahavishnu Orchestra di John McLaughlin degli esordi e certe ...
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