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Farlibt (Jewish Love Songs)
The booklet for this release tells a little about each member of this German quintet, but the biographies add more questions than they answer. How did a Cologne-born vocalist with an Italian name (Andrea Giani), an English violinist and member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (Joe Rappaport), an American-trained German-Bangladeshi guitarist and DJ (Roman Chowdhury), a Munich-born bassist also trained in America, and a Moldovan accordionist happen to get together to sing Jewish songs? What does it mean to sing Jewish music in Germany these days? (If you haven't noticed, it's made something of a comeback there.) And why did they take the somewhat irreverent name Gefilte Fish? The most amazin...
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