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Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf!

Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf! is an album by the American klezmer group the Klezmatics. It was released in 2003.

Production

"I Ain't Afraid" is a cover of the Holly Near song. "Barikadn" samples the voice of the activist Shmerke Kaczerginski.

Critical reception

Robert Christgau wrote: "Leaning on the mournful Eastern European modalities the shtetl assimilated long ago—check especially the Matt Darriau threnody and Frank London prayer—the Klezmatics conjure an album as soaked in 9/11 as The Rising, whose similar title is no coincidence."

AllMusic wrote that "the emphasis is most definitely on songs, rather than instrumentals, and for the most part they keep their fire quite restrained, rarely letting the instrumental work fly into the stratosphere as they have in the past."

Track listing

  1. Klezmorimlekh mayne libinke
  2. Kats un Moyz
  3. Loshn-Koydesh
  4. Tepel
  5. I Ain't Afraid
  6. Di Gayster
  7. Yo Riboyn Olam
  8. Bulgars #2
  9. Barikadn
  10. Davenen
  11. St. John's Nign
  12. Hevil iz Havolim
  13. Makht oyf!
  14. Perets-Tanst
  15. I Ain't Afraid (English edit)

References