''Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf!'' is an album by the American
klezmer
Klezmer ( yi, קלעזמער or ) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for l ...
group
the Klezmatics
The Klezmatics are an American klezmer music group based in New York City, who have achieved fame singing in several languages, most notably mixing older Yiddish tunes with other types of more contemporary music of differing origins. They have ...
. It was released in 2003.
Production
"I Ain't Afraid" is a cover of the
Holly Near
Holly Near (born June 6, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, teacher, and activist.
Early years
Holly Near was born in Ukiah, California, United States, and was
raised on a ranch in Potter Valley, California. She was eight years o ...
song.
[ "Barikadn" samples the voice of the activist ]Shmerke Kaczerginski
Shmaryahu "Shmerke" Kaczerginski ( yi, שמערקע קאַטשערגינסקי; October 28 1908 – April 23 1954) was a Yiddish-speaking poet, musician, writer and cultural activist. Born to a poor family in Vilna and orphaned at a young age, Kac ...
.[
]
Critical reception
Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most well-known and influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and ...
wrote: "Leaning on the mournful Eastern European modalities the shtetl assimilated long ago—check especially the Matt Darriau threnody and Frank London prayer—the Klezmatics conjure an album as soaked in 9/11 as ''The Rising'', whose similar title is no coincidence."AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...
wrote that "the emphasis is most definitely on songs, rather than instrumentals, and for the most part they keep their fire quite restrained, rarely letting the instrumental work fly into the stratosphere as they have in the past."
Track listing
# Klezmorimlekh mayne libinke
# Kats un Moyz
# Loshn-Koydesh
# Tepel
# I Ain't Afraid
# Di Gayster
# Yo Riboyn Olam
# Bulgars #2
# Barikadn
# Davenen
# St. John's Nign
# Hevil iz Havolim
# Makht oyf!
# Perets-Tanst
# I Ain't Afraid (English edit)
References
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The Klezmatics albums
2003 albums