Live interview from Mexico with Dan Saks: lead singer of indie-rock band DeLeon who’ve toured with Balkan Beat Box, Ozomatli, Os Mutantes and Gogol Bordello. DeLeon are the only kids around singing pop rock in Ladino (aka Judeo-Espagnol). So Sephardic and so sexy! Also an interview with Israeli Qawwali singer Shye Ben Tzur. Qa-what? Tune in to find out.
Check out what’s happening in the world of Jewish music this summer. With The Montreal Jewish Music Fest and Ash Kenaz Music Festival in Toronto, this is your chance to get hip to some sweet sounds from around the world.
And there’ll be plenty more to check out on Shtetl on the Shortwave’s Facebook page. So if you love alternative Jewish music,”like Shtetl on FB!”
Keep it chill in the last weeks of summer for as the Talmud says “Life is short; we must move very slowly.”
xox Shtetl
Wanted to bring up a small point about the “Summer Music Special With DeLeon” episode: There is a chance that your listeners have heard Qawwali music before! Some people consider the best Qawwali musician of all time to be a person named Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, from Pakistan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusrat_Fateh_Ali_Khan). Peter Gabriel introduced him to Western audiences by including him in the music for the soundtrack “Passion” to the 1988 movie “The Last Temptation of Christ.” He then was “all the rage” in Western music circles for a few years, included in a lot of musical collaborations… notably making two albums with Canadian guitarist Michael Brook and playing two utterly haunting tracks with Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder on the soundtrack to the 1995 movie “Dead Man Walking.”