Jews with Horns

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{{Infobox album

| name = Jews With Horns

| type = studio

| artist = The Klezmatics

| cover =Jews with Horns.jpg

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| released = {{Start date|1995}}

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| venue =

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| genre = Klezmer

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| label = Xenophile/Green Linnet

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| prev_title = Rhythm and Jews

| prev_year = 1990

| next_title = Possessed

| next_year = 1997

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1=AllMusic

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|rev2=Robert Christgau

|rev2score=A–{{Cite web|url=http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=The+Klezmatics|title=Robert Christgau: CG: The Klezmatics|website=robertchristgau.com}}

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Jews With Horns is the third album by the American klezmer band the Klezmatics, released in 1995.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-klezmatics-mn0000773009/biography|title=The Klezmatics Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}} It is the first album on which Matt Darriau performed, which led to his induction as a full member of the group. Marc Ribot is featured on the second track, "Fisherlid".{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TlWEJM3Nl1YC&pg=PA192|title=The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music, from the Old World to the Jazz Age to the Downtown Avant-garde|first=Seth|last=Rogovoy|date=January 1, 2000|publisher=Algonquin Books|via=Google Books}}

Critical reception

The Washington Post thought that "the Klezmatics are capable of the slow, lovely, horn-and-violin harmonies of the traditional 'Romanian Fantasy' or the exuberant Hasidic vocals of 'Nign'."{{cite web |title=KLEZMATICS' HORNS' TOOT MANY INFLUENCES |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/01/12/klezmatics-horns-toot-many-influences/0ea37191-d57b-406e-98f5-bc6915a4538b/ |website=The Washington Post |access-date=3 December 2021}}

AllMusic wrote that "the fast numbers ... are frenzied celebratory drinking songs—a true revival of the community spirit which spawned this eastern European brand of folk music."

Track listing

  1. Man in a Hat
  2. Fisherlid
  3. Khsidim tants
  4. Simkhes-toyre
  5. Romanian Fantasy
  6. Bulgars / The Kiss
  7. Nign
  8. Honga
  9. In Kampf
  10. Doyna
  11. Freyt aykh, yidlekh
  12. Kale bazetsn
  13. Heyser tartar-tants
  14. {{Transliteration|yi|italic=no|Es vilt zikh mir zen}}
  15. Overture

Personnel

Frank London - trumpet, cornet, alto horn, piano, organ, vocals

Lorin Sklamberg - accordion, piano, lead vocals

Paul Morrissett - bass, vocals

David Licht - drums

David Krakauer - clarinet, bass clarinet, vocals

Alicia Svigals - violin, vocals

Ray "Chinito" Diaz - guiro (Track 1)

Moxy Früvous - backing vocals (1)

Matt Darriau - alto saxophone (2, 15), backing vocals (4)

Marc Ribot - electric guitar (2)

Betty Silberman - backing vocals (2)

Adrienne Cooper - vocals (14)

References