Composer: Debra Kreisberg © 2013 Rock City Road Music | BMI

“Noiresque is an evocative klezmer-jazz soundscape that creates a seamless interplay between jazz 3/4 time and the traditional 'hora' rhythm. The melody and harmonic motion weave in and out of bebop, blues and the signature freygish klezmer mode with mysterious yet playful abandon.” 
– Debra Kreisberg

04 Noiresque

Eve Sicular, bandleader and drummer of Isle of Klezbos and Metropolitan Klezmer, talks about her grandmother and her musical documentary theater show based on a FIFA request and family lore. Adele Sicular was a community activist and focus for Hoover's secret FBI surveillance program. "J. Edgar Klezmer: Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files" will be performed at Centenary Stage Company, in Hackettstown, NJ, February 12 through 15.

Eve Sicular talks about her grandmother and J. Edgar Klezmer

NYC-based ISLE of KLEZBOS approaches tradition with irreverence and respect. The soulful, fun-loving powerhouse all-women’s klezmer sextet has toured from Vienna to Vancouver since 1998. Band repertoire ranges from rambunctious to entrancing: neo-traditional folk dance, mystical melodies,Yiddish swing & retro tango, late Soviet-era Jewish drinking song, re-grooved standards, and genre-defying originals. ISLE of KLEZBOS concert footage has been broadcast internationally on CBS Sunday Morning, CNN World- Beat, and PBS In The Life, and the band’s live and studio recordings have also been heard on The L Word (Showtime), WFMU, Northeast Public Radio (Live at the Linda), and film soundtracks for Grace Paley: Collected Shorts, Esther Broner: A Weave of Women, and I Guess I’m Not Going to Get toVegas, among others. The band has also been commissioned to create a concert for artist Kiki Smith and studio recordings of Klezbos arrangements for multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated Scissor Sisters. 

04 Noiresque

Isle of Klezbos

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