sound samples liner notes reviews printed music		T A N Z Wie Bist Die Gewesen Vor Prohibition? (What Were You Doing During Prohibition?) by Naftule Brandwein 3:53 Min Khatrat (Do Not Walk at Night) by Sham'a Avakam, Jewish-Yeminite trad. 4:16 Bolgarskii Zhok (Bulgar Dance) Rumanian trad. 3:25 Araber Tanz by Naftule Brandwein 3:56 Dos Oybershte Fun Shtoysl (The Most Conceited of All ) Yiddish trad. 4:53 Der Terk In America by Naftule Brandwein 4:51 Fufzehn Yahr Fon Der Heim Awek (Fifteen Years Away From Home) by Naftule Brandwein 3:26 Hila Wasa Karamanji Azdro, Judeo-Kurdish trad. 2:53 Aji Tu Yorma? (Where Are You My Lover?) Dagestan, Judeo-Azeri trad. 4:27 Tanst, Tanst Yidelekh (Dance Little Yid) Yiddish trad. 3:02 Gut Morgn (Good Morning) Yiddish trad. 2:22 Ayumati Te'Orer Ha-Yesheinim (The Holy Prescence Awakens the Sleepers) Jewish-Yeminite Manakha trad. 2:47 La Rosa Enflorece (The Rose in Bloom) Anonymous, Balkan Sephardic trad. 4:29 Produced by Tim Sparks Executive Producer - John Zorn Associate Producer - Kazunori Sugiyama Recorded June 4, 2000 by David Baker at Orange Music, NJ Mastered by Allan Tucker at Foothill Digital, NYC K2 Technology by JVC Disc America Design - Hueng-Hueng Chin A huge thank you to John Zorn for his patience and help, and introducing me to some of the great soups of lower Manhattan. Big thanks also to Kazunori Sugiyama for calmly juggling all the last minute details and keeping track of everyone and everything. Thanks also to David Baker, Allan Tucker, Hueng-Hueng Chin, to Melissa Caruso Scott, Michelle Casillas, and all the folks at Tonic, to Charlie Homans and Joe Kim at WKCR, John Schaefer at WNYC and Hugh Blackmer for his notes on Tanst Yidelekh. Special thanks to Greg Cohen and obrigado to Cyro Baptista. This was our first musical outing together and their musical monstrosity was exceeded only by their profound warmth and generosity (and willingness to play my Balkanized arrangements in odd time signatures.) We recorded this in an old studio in Jersey that was originally used by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, so John Zorn would break into a refrain from Rag Doll whenever our spirits needed lifting. We had a good time and I hope you enjoy the Tanz. Rabbi Abraham Yaakov said: Every people has its own melody, and none sings that of another. But Israel sings all of them, in order to bring them to G-d. Once when Rabbi Bunam honored a man in his House of Prayer by asking him to blow the ram's horn, and the fellow began to make lengthy preparations to concentrate on the meaning of the sounds, the tzadik cried out: "Fool, go ahead and blow!" - from Tales of the Hasidim by Martin Buber Tzadik A project of Hips Road © 2000 by Tzadik, 61 East Eighth Street, New York NY 10008
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