Music of the Klezmorim  (Hebr: musicians)

enchanted us, it is written

in the landscape of small towns

and Carpathian villages of 19th and 20th c.

This music  once sound in Hucul weddings,

Bukovina’s inns, in Galician fairs,

in Jewish homes, even in the aristocratic salons.

It extolled us with its simplicity, as well as,

masterly form, mosaic of styles and motives

of Carpathian cultures.

Many outstanding Klezmers of Carpathian

origin performed music of mastery and real charm.

Leon Schwartz, violin virtuoso, born in Karapcziw

 in Ukrainian Bukovina, and genius of ‘tsimbl’ (cimbalom,

hammered dulcimer) Joseph Moskowitz, born in Galatia,

 at the foot of Romanian Carpathians, were two of them

We draw inspiration and musical wisdom from the sparse archival recordings of the concerts and from few of other records and scores of music performed by Klezmer bands and folk Romanian, Polish and Ukrainian musicians.

We travel from old to modern, attempting to combine them stylistically in our way.

Similarly as once Klezmer musicians combined the Jewish and elements from other musical cultures.

In the place where the Earth touches the sky. Such a flight.