- aheym – homeward 2015 £13.99 including postage
“Talk about your good vibrations – this is pure soul music with a Jewish heartbeat.” – Seth Rogovoy, author, The Essential Klezmer
Original songs in Yiddish and Russian, instrumental compositions and traditional material.
Lorin Sklamberg (USA) – vocals, accordion, piano
Polina Shepherd (RUSSIA/UK) – vocals, piano
Merlin Shepherd (UK) – clarinets
- Three Centuries Ago 2014 £13.99 including postage
Polina Shepherd’s first solo CD brings us 10 new songs in Russian and Yiddish and – by popular demand appearing as a bonus track, one of the traditional prayer songs Avinu Malkenu. Accompanied by brilliant improvisers Rohan Kriwazcek on The Saddest Bagpipes in the World and Merlin Shepherd on saxophone, clarinet, bass and percussion. read more
- A Blade of Grass 2012 Sold out
Merlin & Polina Shepherd Original compositions drawing cultural and musical influences from Tatarstan, Turkey, Russia and the Pale of Settlement. Playing Music from several linked cultures and maintaining the styles, they also incorporate improvisation, freedom and spontaneity…. read more
- Civilisation 2011 sold out!
- Download version: pay £6 and we will send you a Dropbox link to the songs, CD cover and song texts
Polina Skovoroda & Fanfara CD is a collaboration that is special and exciting. Under Polina’s guest direction, the Brighton based group mix their Romanian Gypsy Brass tunes with new material that pushes the boundaries of traditional Russian and Yiddish song. From the opening track, Igrai Truba (Play Trumpet) we hear Polina’s improvised, weaving and fluid vocal style coming head on with the powerful sustained brass chords, then leading to a fast, pulsing, astonishingly danceable Russian song, tasting like the best Romanian slivovitz…read more
This CD, the Quartet Ashkenazim’s fourth recording contains all original compositions with 11 poems by Yiddish writers, two from folklore and one wordless. The diversity of musical expression far surpassing all their previous works. Drawing from a large variety of Poets and a great variety of subjects Polina Shepherd creates a world where all is other and yet all is strangely familiar… read more
Sometimes the Universe speaks Yiddish. National culture as a reflection of the depth and all common to all mankind, mystical and metaphorical. Jewish features are always present in the creative work of the Ashkenazim as much as the Universal Truth is part of everyone of us: it bursts forth as a musical image from composer P. Achkinazi–Shepherd, it breathes with improvisations and laughter of musicians and cries with the tears of the audience… read more
Hi Polina – please may I buy a copy of the sheet music of your arrangement for To ne veter vetku klonit so I may teach my community choir. Thank you and best wishes. Evelyn
Just letting you know that I spoke to the Kane Street Synagogue in Brooklyn about having a show there. As usual, a committee will review it and determine whether such a program is feasible. While I don’t want to negotiate fees, I think it would be useful for us to get a ballpark estimate of what you would charge for a Saturday night performance. .
Hi Bob, wrote you an email. Would be delighted to perform in Brooklyn again.