Like the early Blues, Rembetika songs of the 1930s and 1940s have a sense of spontaneity, making them appear fresh after countless hearings ... Rembetika music didn't only originate in hash-dens and jails, although this is where the main inspiration came from. ...
"The rembetika are Greek songs associated with an urban low-life milieu frequented by rembetes or manges, street-wise characters of shady repute, may of whom smoked hashish. ... This would explain the affinity between rembetika and flamenco, which both are ultimately rooted in ...
Matt Barrett's introduction to Rembetika music, the Greek urban blues, songs of drug addiction, love, sorrow, exile, war and occupation ... was spent listening and learning from the music of the Beatles, the Kinks, the Move and Free, currently I listen predominantly to old Rembetika. ...
Rembetika.com, official site of the Rembetika Hipsters - Greek rembetika, tsiftetelli band from Calgary Alberta ... Since 1996, their repertoire has included authentic Greek Rembetika songs, original Canadian compositions in Greek, Balkan & Middle-Eastern ... rembetika. video. images ...
A beautiful, sweet, yearning, graceful Modzitz Hassidic melody affiliated with "The Admor Shaul Yedidya of Modzitz (1887-1948)." It's simple, with just voice and steel-stringed guitar (and a baglama?)
Piyut is a poem sung to God or about God. Piyut is also a prayer that expresses emotions in relationship to God, including praise, glory, joy, sorryow, anger, gratitude, lamentation, celebration, respect, fear, fury, loneliness, and longing. Piyutim are a crying out for connection with God.
It is difficult to describe, what Giora Feidman, bass clarinetist, does on stage with his clarinet, how it laughs, cries, and narrates...Master of innovative interpretations of tango, jazz, classical music, and klezmer, her merges all 4 genres into phenomenally expressive, virtuosic, and emotional songs.
Klezmer (from Yiddish כּלי־זמיר, kley - instrument and zemer - song; etymologically from Hebrew k'li zemer כלי זמר, "musical instrument") is a musical tradition which parallels Hasidic and Ashkenazic Judaism. Around the 15th century, a tradition of secular (non-liturgical) Jewish music was developed by musicians called klezmorim or kleyzmurim. They draw on devotional traditions extending back into Biblical times, and their musical legacy of klezmer continues to evolve today.