 Released Winter, 1997**OUT OF PRINT |
Carl Dimow (flute, guitar) |
The album features traditional Klezmer instrumentals and vocals as well as arrangements and compositions by Edly and other Tummlers. There's quite a variety, from the Tummlettes 3-part harmony version of Edly's arrangement of Abi Gezunt, to eternal favorite Lebedig un Freylach, to a new, updated take on Tum Balalaika, and subgroup Casco Bay Strummlers' version of Ot Azoy. . . and quite a bit more.
" I just received your CD, I am up to track 8, and I was sufficiently overwhelmed to email you immediately!! ... This is absolutely one of the most beautiful I have heard. It is so sensitively played, with so much feeling. [Often Klezmer albums sound to me like a group of jazz musicians all methodically doing what is prescribed, and amazingly (for a style inherently moving), losing any sense of warmth]... please convey to members of the band how moved a certain radio-DJ in Sydney, Australia is!
**Yaron Hallis, "The Hot Club," Eastside Radio, 89.7 F.M.**
"The Casco Bay Tummlers performed at our Yiddishkeyt MameLoshn Weekend in New York on June 11, 1998. They were outstanding!... It was a wonderful evening thanks to the very talented Tummlers... I highly recommend them."
**Dr. Alice Falkenstein, Director, Kessel Jewish Cultural Institute**
...there is a new CD out by The Casco Bay Tummlers. It is absolutely fantastic. With music from the rollicking freylachs to a haunting song from the Holocaust, this is the best I have heard... this is an important piece of Yiddish culture that should be sustained and nurtured. Everyone should welcome The Casco Bay Tummlers into their home.
**Charles Epstein, The Jewish Post & Opinion, Indianapolis**
Click here for a review and sound clips of this CD from Ari's Klezmershack.