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Masks and Faces (album)

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Released
  
1991

Producer
  
New Klezmer Trio

Release date
  
1991

Length
  
53:17

Artist
  
New Klezmer Trio

Genres
  
Klezmer, Jazz

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Recorded
  
June 1990, Music Annex, Menlo Park, California

Label
  
Nine Winds NWCD 0144 Tzadik TZ 7112

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Masks and Faces is the debut album by the New Klezmer Trio, Ben Goldberg - clarinet, Dan Seamans - bass, and Kenny Wollesen - drums, which was originally released on the Nine Winds label in 1991 and re-released on the Tzadik label in 1996.

Contents

Reception

In her review for Allmusic, Joslyn Layne observed "this raucous, bursting, and somewhat disjointed music sustains a groove that's not so hard to hang on to. Almost an hour in length, New Klezmer Trio's first release ebbs and flows, relentlessly packed with high quality tunes".

Track listing

All compositions by Ben Goldberg except as indicated

  1. "Cardboard Factory" - 5:06
  2. "Hot and Cold" (Traditional) - 3:44
  3. "Rebbe's Meal" (Traditional) - 7:36
  4. "Up" (Dan Seamans) - 4:19
  5. "Washing Machine Song" (Traditional) - 2:59
  6. "Galicain" (Sam Beckerman) - 5:18
  7. "Masks and Faces" - 6:33
  8. "Haphazard" (Itzikel Kramtweiss) - 4:03
  9. "Bitonal Song" (Kramtweiss) - 3:06
  10. "The Gate" - 10:33

Personnel

  • Ben Goldberg - clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Dan Seamans - bass
  • Kenny Wollesen - drums

    • Songs

    1Cardboard Factory5:09
    2Hot and Cold3:46
    3Rebbe's Meal7:38

    References

    Masks and Faces (album) Wikipedia
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