Moishe's Bagel
World Unlimited are pleased to announce a World Unlimited are pleased to announce a Birmingham date at mac for Moishe’s Bagel who will be appearing on Monday November 26th.
Rip-roaring, foot-stomping, jazz-inflected klezmer and Balkan music from some of Scotland’s finest musicians. An intoxicating, life-affirming mix of Eastern European dance music, Middle Eastern rhythms and viruoso performances.Formed in Edinburgh in 2003, Moishe’s Bagel combines the energy and passion of Eastern European folk music with the excitement and soul of improvisation. Boasting some of the best instrumentalists that Scotland has to offer (Salsa Celtica, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Celtic Feet, Scottish National Jazz Orchestra), we just as likely to see them jamming in a late night jazz den, grooving at a forest festival, or enthralling an upmarket concert hall.
‘Consummate musicians, the degree of concentration and engagement with their music is palpable…this is high-class work” EdinburghGuide.com
Everything began when four of the band members met in a local tango outfit. With the recruiting of a percussion wizard to give a new twist to the klezmer/Balkan groove, the line up found an unbeatable mix. Not too concerned with authenticity (there are enough people doing that already), they let the interaction of their individual musical personalities create their own style; a sound that mixes klezmer, folk dance, jazz, eastern percussion and more, topped off with dazzling musicality and classical rigour. The result is a band which has the excitement of occasional improvisation, with an energy that keeps the music highly danceable, and visually and aurally exciting.Over the last two years Moishe’s Bagel has toured England, Scotland, Ireland and Eastern Europe. Festival performances have included The Larmer Tree Festival, Sessiwn Fawr, Belfast Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Sheep Music, Orkney St Magnus Festival and many more, and in summer 2006 the band had sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival and the Famous Spiegeltent on the Edinburgh Fringe.
“Fabulous neo-klezmer...a wicked sense of humour and massive chops that extend to Scots music, Latin and well beyond - they're going to go places” Global Village Idiot Magazine.
The band’s debut album Don’t Spare the Horses has reached as far afield as Tel-Aviv, South America and Cape Town, with the second album Amondala released in February this year quickly gaining even more fans.
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