Klezmer Soul

Kol Simcha | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 7, 1997)
• Original Release Date: October 7, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hearts of Space
• ASIN: B000000X8Z
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328,760 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #86 in Music > World Music > Europe > Continental Europe > Switzerland

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I find this CD absolutely amazing and haunting! Genius!, April 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Klezmer Soul (Audio CD)

This CD has grabbed my attention and others in my family with its emotive and haunting presence. I have played it again and again immediately after hearing of my father's passing and the day of his funeral and at other times when wanting to connect with him. This is not necessarily a sad CD but it does help tap into some emotional and sad places and allows me to go there for reflection and remembrance. My college age daughter has also loved this so much that she often plays it at gatherings among her friends. For Jewish people, in particular, it brings some connectedness with the past, with long gone relatives, with Israel, with the Holocaust, with renewal and with family. It should have been a huge best seller.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Klezmer Soul, March 14, 2000

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Paul Sacks, (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Klezmer Soul (Audio CD)

I just saw Kol Simcha in concert 2 weeks ago in Scottsdale and wanted to get some of their music to listen to at home. I really enjoyed this title but it lacks the jazz components that I found so unique from their live performance. The music on this album is very soothing to listen to and is very different from traditional Klezmer music. I recommend this album very much.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely not Hava Nagila, February 20, 2011

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northkona (Kailua-Kona, HI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Klezmer Soul (Audio CD)

I was cleaning up my CD collection this week, actually to resell some oldies here at Amazon, and came across this one which hadn't been played in a long time. I decided to listen to it again since I didn't remember the music any longer, and was swept away by the mood. This is a great CD, a keeper, and although it's certainly klezmer music, it is not jazzy rambunctious wedding music, nobody's going to dance the hora to this. It's subdued, the wind instruments are beautiful. I'm sorry it was forgotten on the shelf for so long, shame on me. A really great disk, the music gives you something to think about. I like the remarks the other reviewers made, too. Maybe part of the attraction is how it isn't like anything from today's noisy world. It's memory music.