150 Voices 2020
Russian and Yiddish folk and art songs and newly composed originals sung by five choirs in the UK and USA and a duo of two international cultural activists: Siberian-born singer, composer and choir leader Polina Shepherd and the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning Klezmatics Lorin Sklamberg. Read more…
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Aheym – Homeward
“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
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Bargain: two CDs Aheym + Three Centuries Ago CD £18.95 including postage anywhere.
Undzer Yiddishland 2020
14 leading Yiddish singers and activists, originally from the USSR and now living in Austria, UK, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Israel and the USA, have joined forces for this album. The compilation is made during the pandemic of 2020. The CD contains a booklet with the performers’ biographies. Only available as a hard copy, there will be no digital sales and no reissues. Read more…
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NO SALES outside Europe from this site, please contact singers in other countries to buy from them.
Bargain: two CDs Undzer Yiddishland + Three Centuries Ago CD £18.95 including postage anywhere.
£13.99 including postage anywhere
Download version: pay £6 and we will send you a Dropbox link to the songs, CD cover and song texts
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
The hard copy is sold out.
Fun Yener Zayt Lid 2002, Ashkenazim Quartet, Kazan, Russia
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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
Jamda. 2000. Kazan, Russia.
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This CD was recorded in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia in 2000 and was the first step of the vocal quartet into Yiddish music. With very little access and almost now knowledge of Ashkenazi culture, the singers were discovering their heritage and just getting into the repertoire. Nevertheless, as one of the first emerging FSU “Klezmer Revival” projects, this recording already has something to say and was complimented by Frank London (New York) as “A remarkable group that is at the forefront of Jewish a capella singing.” Only in a couple of years time, the vocal quartet Ashkenazim, having gone through intense learning and changes in personnel, was touring Europe and the US with their new Yiddish music, mostly composed by the leader, now composer and performer in the UK, Polina Shepherd. Some tracks are accompanied by Klezmer Ensemble Simkha, Kazan, Tatarstan (leader – Leonid Sontz).
