Ahava Raba Discography of CDs

Ahava Raba songs Ahava Raba's Kete Kuf blends klezmer, Tuvan throat singing, Eastern European folk music, and contemporary classical music in a fascinating and entertaining style. Released on Tzadik, John Zorn's label for "radical Jewish culture," the group's debut reveals them to be one of the most distinctive, inventively Jewish ensembles in recent memory. ...

Ahava Raba albums OK, by now everyone familiar with John Zorn's Masada project should realize that it's actually a songbook, and not a band per se. Unknown Masada is the third installment in the Masada 10th Anniversary series, presenting tunes from the book that had not been recorded to this point. As you might expect, there is a tremendous amount of stylistic diversity here, from the very traditional sound of Julian Kytasty to the very untraditional sounds of Fantômas. In fact, listeners more familiar with The Circle Maker or Bar Kokhba might not be prepared for some of the ...

Ahava Raba CD discography This album showcases the new directions that klezmer is taking in the new millennium. There are fusions of music here that one wouldn't expect to hear ever but somehow work for the most part. The disc starts out with a piece from Boiled in Lead which is more or less traditional klezmer in its structure, but makes use of electric guitars in place of clarinets and violins. This is a signal that it's not your grandfather's klezmer that you're about to hear. A slow, stuttering semi-traditional work follows, to be broken again by the Klezmatics ...