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Yid Vicious Klezmer Ensemble - CD RELEASE PARTY (11/22/08)

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:28 am
by David Spies
Date: Saturday, November 22, 2008
Time: 9:30 PM - 11:59 PM
Location: Restaurant Magnus
Address: 120 E. Wilson St.
City: Madison
State: WI
Zip: 53703
Primary Contact: Kia Karlen
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Yid Vicious Klezmer Ensemble
CD Release Party
Saturday, November 22, 2008, 9:30 pm
Restaurant Magnus
$5 cover
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This being the official, legal, and sanctioned announcement of the Yid Vicious CD Release Blowout, the afore mentioned cd, or “compact disc” being a new collection in the “klezmer” genre featuring antiquities and contemporary offerings side by side in a rich musical broth the likes of which upon even such a figure as JOHN D ROCKEFELLER HIMSELF has never feasted, and which bears the distinctive and worthy title,

“Dollars to Doinas”,

which event, barring natural catastrophe, plague, war, labor strife, dirigible crash, gout epidemic and zombie insurgency, will commence

Saturday, November 22 at 9:30 PM

at the esteemed Restaurant Magnus, 120 E. Wilson Street, in the heart of Madison’s respectable and handsome “down” town. The acclaimed Urban Van Hoof, Chairman of the PRESTIGIOUS Foundation for Freylekh Affairs, will, below, expound at some length on this most remarkable of modern events.

“Dollars to Doinas” marks the continuance of Yid Vicious’ breakneck recording schedule, it being the band’s first release in only three and a half years. How does Yid Vicious do it? While the individual members of this remarkable organization aren’t particularly driven, they DO, collectively, share a distinct feature: moxie. In fact, studies performed at the Foundation for Freylekh Affairs (or “FFFA”) have revealed that “Dollars to Doinas” contains eighty percent, or four-fifths, moxie. This is a moxie ratio (or “MR”) unheard of in the history of recorded music.

Additionally, “Dollars to Doinas” has music from the old Eastern European/Russian Jewish traditions, played at various tempi and with creative embellishments. The “cover” of the cd features a colorful and toothsome dessert. The musicians ply their trade on fiddle, voice, soprano saxophone, clarinet, accordion, “French” horn, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, guitar, tuba, drums and theremin. The most modern recording techniques have been employed to enhance the sound of the music. The cd would be purely instrumental, save for a pair of vocal interjections by the bewitching Anna Purnell. You can dance to it, if you’ve a mind to (and feet).

Finally, the members of Yid Vicious (Matt Appleby Geoff Brady Kia Karlen Melissa Reiser Greg Smith Dave Spies and Daithi Wolfe) hope you will like “Dollars to Doinas”, should you have the opportunity to hear it (which you will), and would be honored to have you in attendance on November 22.

- Urban VanHoof
Chairman, Foundation for Freylekh Affairs

Re: Yid Vicious Klezmer Ensemble - CD RELEASE PARTY (11/22/08)

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:30 am
by David Spies
You can hear selections from the upcoming CD release "Dollars to Doinas" in the following Wisconsin Public Radio Podcast for the radio program "Higher Ground with Jonathan Overby":

http://www.wpr.org/higherground/Podcast.cfm" target="_blank

Yid Vicious (Podcast #751)

Jonathan talks to Kia Karlen about the origins of Yid Vicious. Karlen is a member of the seven-piece band which was formed in 1995 in Madison, WI in order to "ameliorate the woeful dearth of klezmer in America's otherwise pleasant heartland." Klezmer is Yiddish folk music, music for dancing and celebrating.

The revival of Klezmer started in the 70s and is now played at weddings, at Bat and Bar Mitzvahs, luxurious ballrooms and festival stages and often drive crowds into flurries of "freylekh-fueled dancing fury." Their repertoire is drawn mainly from traditional secular Yiddish music.

There are seven members of Yid Vicious, playing clarinets, saxophones, fiddle, horn, vocals, guitar, accordion, tuba, drums and sometimes theremin. This interview includes several pieces from their new CD "Dollars to Doinas". Their website is http://www.yidvicious.com" target="_blank.