Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf! Explained

Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf!
Type:	studio
Artist:	The Klezmatics
Cover:	Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf!.webp
Released:	2003
Genre:	Klezmer
Label:	Rounder Records^[1]
Prev Title:	The Well: Klezmatics with Chava Alberstein
Prev Year:	1998
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Next Year:	2004

Rise Up! Shteyt Oyf! is an album by the American klezmer group the Klezmatics.^{[2] [3]} It was released in 2003.^[4]

Production

"I Ain't Afraid" is a cover of the Holly Near song. "Barikadn" samples the voice of the activist Shmerke Kaczerginski.

Critical reception

Robert Christgau wrote: "Leaning on the mournful Eastern European modalities the shtetl assimilated long ago—check especially the Matt Darriau threnody and Frank London prayer—the Klezmatics conjure an album as soaked in 9/11 as The Rising, whose similar title is no coincidence."

AllMusic wrote that "the emphasis is most definitely on songs, rather than instrumentals, and for the most part they keep their fire quite restrained, rarely letting the instrumental work fly into the stratosphere as they have in the past."

Track listing

1. Klezmorimlekh mayne libinke
2. Kats un Moyz
3. Loshn-Koydesh
4. Tepel
5. I Ain't Afraid
6. Di Gayster
7. Yo Riboyn Olam
8. Bulgars #2
9. Barikadn
10. Davenen
11. St. John's Nign
12. Hevil iz Havolim
13. Makht oyf!
14. Perets-Tanst
15. I Ain't Afraid (English edit)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Klezmatics. Peter. Margasak. August 5, 2004. Chicago Reader.
2. Web site: The Klezmatics Biography, Songs, & Albums. AllMusic.
3. News: Takiff . Jonathan . GLOBAL SEASONINGS . Philadelphia Daily News . 13 May 2003 . Features . 34.
4. News: Rogovoy . Seth . Not Your Father's Klezmer -- But Neither Was His . The Forward . 9 May 2003 . 10.