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The Klezmatics take among the wildest methods to klezmer, the original dance music from the Eastern Western Jews. Although their music is usually heavily influenced from the recordings of Abe Ellstein and Dave Tarras in the 1940s and 1950s, their lyrics touch upon a multitude of politics and social problems …

Shaped in 1982 by guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, bass player Tag Kramer and drummer David Licht, Shockabilly created music that sounded as an unholy mix of the Electric Prunes and Karlheinz Stockhausen. They specific in outrageous cover variations – ‘Psychotic Response’, ‘19th Anxious Break down’, ‘Time Tripper’, ‘Crimson Haze’ – and …

Drummer David Licht co-founded the Klezmatics in NYC in the past due ’70s. An associate of the renowned groupings Shockabilly and Bongwater, he also performed with Ned Rothenberg, John Zorn and Tom Cora in the first ’80s. Various other collaborations consist of: composing for choreographer Karen Heifetz, and executing with …