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I was given this album as a gift and had never heard of Kaila Flexer before. Now it's my single favorite album. Lively, brimming with playful energy, and tender too, it feels like a blend of jazz/folk/klezmer to me, very well done. Each of the musicians is individually technically marvelous, and they've all clearly put some significant time in to shaping a cohesive sound. Very clean, very complex.

Violinist Kaila Flexer leads an acoustic quartet comprising another violin plus acoustic bass and percussion through a set of energetic music that often takes off but never quite soars. I suspect that this is a group that sounds better live than in the studio, where things seem just a little too studious to be as spontaneous as I believe they probably can be. Still, in a world in which mediocre recordings by folks such as the Moody Blues, Queen, and the Beach Boys--and don't even get me started on "bachelor pad music!"--can be sold for $30 per gold CD, when the original LPs were already a ripoff at the $5 or so they originally sold for, surely a genuine musician such as Kaila Flexer deserves to sell a few CDs, so I am passing along a sincere but not quite enthusiastic recommendation.

This is great instrumental folk music with the added dimension of multi-percussionist Joel Davel's marimba, tamboura, bongos, metal goblets, Mexican glasses played with coat hangers, etc. etc.!

Kaila has a keen sense of rhythm and timing. Her band is right with her as she takes you on a palatable journey of the ear.