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Klezperanto's music is a natural outgrowth of the klezmer tradition, an ever-evolving form of lively, accessible dance music. Yiddish and Mediterranean melodies are set in original arrangements that dip into zydeco, rockabilly, funk, New Orleans second-line, cumbia, and Balkan brass band surf music. The repertoire includes a few tunes that are standards in these and other genres, all with the Klezperanto touch. The unifying idea is that of an irresistible dance groove. If music is a universal language, then dance music is even more so, because the urge to move to a beat is so primal. This is the idea behind Klezperanto's name. Yiddish, with its elements of Hebrew, Slavic, and German, was a lingua franca for Jews in the Diaspora. Someone from a shtetl in Minsk could converse with a Jew from Vienna, even if they were in Shanghai. Dr. Ludwig Zamenhoff, a Yiddish-speaking Jew from Bialystok, further expanded this idea with the invention of Esperanto, a pan-European language which he hoped would bring understanding between people spanning national boundaries and cultural distinctions. Klezperanto is a new universal language. The one you speak with your feet. |
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