Released 1991 Release date 1991 | Length 53:17 Artist New Klezmer Trio | |
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Recorded June 1990, Music Annex, Menlo Park, California Similar Short for Something, Melt Zonk Rewire, Unfold Ordinary Mind | ||
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.
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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
- "Cardboard Factory" - 5:06
- "Hot and Cold" (Traditional) - 3:44
- "Rebbe's Meal" (Traditional) - 7:36
- "Up" (Dan Seamans) - 4:19
- "Washing Machine Song" (Traditional) - 2:59
- "Galicain" (Sam Beckerman) - 5:18
- "Masks and Faces" - 6:33
- "Haphazard" (Itzikel Kramtweiss) - 4:03
- "Bitonal Song" (Kramtweiss) - 3:06
- "The Gate" - 10:33
Personnel
Songs
1Cardboard Factory5:09
2Hot and Cold3:46
3Rebbe's Meal7:38
References
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