When I listen to Klezmer music I feel as if someone has plugged my central nervous system into a hot socket.
For an intro to what Klezmer is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klezmer
Klezmer is a sort of fusion music that is Jewish - Yiddish - Jazz.
It is a riotous and mad genre... It will make your body parts want to do things... to jump and move and yell.
I think this is do to the tempo and the instrumentation of the music... and yet beneath the surface of this frenzy is the subtext of a a perpetual minor key. So while the body and the mind are being swept over with a wave of madness the heart is pierced with melancholy.
The tempo and the instrumentation possess the mind and the body- the minor key entrances the heart.
For a real (experiential) into to Klezmer try the Pandora radio station: "Old Klezmer Music".
Saturday, January 2, 2010
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