I’m not Jewish, but Kletzmer music is the balls. David Krakauer plays in a unique way, full of sarcasm and lament; clarinet screaming, weaving like a snake.
I was surprised to find the album chock full of innuendo and double entendre, leaving the crudeness for those who can’t express themselves in any other way.
His solos have a worldly strangeness that seem to deny time and space, leaving the pedestrian realm and soaring on erratic zephyrs making small whirlwinds.
He sang the songs from Outside, the soundtrack to a diary not yet complete. He made the connection between the misery of NIN and the whirling life around us.
Over hundreds of years, the modes of Ionian and Aolian were found to be the most stable and were used almost exclusively. They became known as major and minor.