Marsh Dondurma

Marsh Dondurma: Te'amim Hadashim (New Tastes)

by Eyal Hareuveni
October 24, 2007

Israeli Marsh Dondurma is a kind of New Orleans-ean/Balkan/fifteen-player jubilant marching band named after a favorite Turkish ice-cream. The combo adds Klezmer, Turkish and other Middle-Eastern and even Brazilian batucada-based spices to this percolating stew, all baked through an Ellingtonian framework. A much more sober version of Goran Bregovi”s Music for Weddings and Funerals (2002) or Emir Kusturica's No Smoking Orchestra, and certainly more disciplined than the Japanese Shibusashirazu Orchestra, but still delivering the sane joie de vivre. This second ...