''Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf!'' is an album by the American
klezmer
Klezmer ( or ) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening; these wou ...
group
the Klezmatics
The Klezmatics are an American klezmer music group based in New York City, who have achieved fame singing in several languages, most notably mixing older Yiddish language, Yiddish tunes with other types of more contemporary music of differing or ...
. It was released in 2003.
Production
"I Ain't Afraid" is a cover of the
Holly Near
Holly Near (born June 6, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, teacher, and activist.
Family
Holly Near was born in Ukiah, California, United States, and was
raised on a ranch in Potter Valley, California.
She has two sisters, Ti ...
song.
[ "Barikadn" samples the voice of the activist Shmerke Kaczerginski.][
]
Critical reception
Robert Christgau
Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became a ...
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
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Mus ...
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
# Klezmorimlekh mayne libinke
# Kats un Moyz
# Loshn-Koydesh
# Tepel
# I Ain't Afraid
# Di Gayster
# Yo Riboyn Olam
# Bulgars #2
# Barikadn
# Davenen
# St. John's Nign
# Hevil iz Havolim
# Makht oyf!
# Perets-Tanst
# I Ain't Afraid (English edit)
References
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The Klezmatics albums
2003 albums